Senior Manager, Legal Engineering

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Position Description

GEICO’s Enterprise Engineering team is seeking an experienced Senior Manager to join our new Legal Technology organization. You will manage a team to build and maintain enterprise legal solutions that operate in a highly performant, efficient, and complaint way. You will play a pivotal role in design and development of legal solutions, shape architecture, and drive innovation to meet the evolving business needs within the Legal Department. Timely delivery of impactful projects that enhance GEICO’s legal service delivery will be a focus. The ideal candidate will have strong expertise in software development, leading an engineering team, and have legal or similar domain exposure with the skills to collaborate with engineering peers and wide variety of legal stakeholders.

Position Responsibilities

As a Sr. Manager, Legal Engineering within Legal Technology, you will:

• Define strategy and architecture of the technology stack supporting the Legal Department including various tool sets, automation, cloud access and integration, and enablement tools. Build and maintain a roadmap that aligns with stakeholders' needs and wants
• Work closely with the Legal Department to manage, innovate, and create new programs, direction and analytics that balance and improve legal service delivery
• Present a vision and strategic recommendations with clarity and concision to stakeholders having varying degrees of technology fluency
• Provide technical direction and organizational leadership for a team of software engineers who design, test, deploy and maintain legal systems built to support the department’s needs and strategy
• Build and nurture a high-performing technology team, providing mentorship, coaching, and guidance to foster a culture of continuous learning and DevOps mindset
• Champion the implementation of engineering quality to include unit testing, automation testing, security testing, among others
• Foster effective collaboration and communication across teams to align priorities, share best practices, and ensure smooth coordination for incident response, system maintenance, and upgrades
• Report on your team’s progress for key projects and other important measurables, in addition to presenting detailed plans to mitigate identified project risks
• Manage resource allocation, team budget, and vendor relationships to optimize costs and maintain high-quality outcomes
• Help support the transformation of GEICO’s insurance business as we transition from a traditional IT model to a tech organization with engineering excellence as its mission.

Qualifications

• Proven experience in a technology leadership role supporting legal, risk & compliance, regulatory or similar teams
• Knowledge of cloud computing technologies, concepts, security best practices, and compliance standards
• Outstanding leadership and team management skills with a passion for mentoring and fostering professional growth
• Strong problem-solving and analytical abilities, with a keen eye for detail and a passion for driving operational efficiency and automation
• Fluency with at least one modern language such as Python, Java, Go and experience with open-source software is a big plus
• Fluency with at least two .NET, HTML-5, JavaScript/TypeScript, XML, JSON, RESTful Web Services, and Event Driven Architectures
• Experience developing and deploying applications in AWS or similar public cloud environment
• Experience with application monitoring tools and performance assessments
• Experience in budget management, resource allocation, and vendor collaboration

Experience

• 6+ years of software architecture and development/coding experience.
• 5+ years of experience in leadership of development teams (may be concurrent with development experience above).
• 5+ years of development in a large-scale, mission-critical environment
• 2+ years of experience with automated testing including Unit, Integration, and End-to-End functional testing

Education

• ​​Bachelor’s degree in computer science, information technology or related field, or equivalent experience

Annual Salary

$150,000.00 - $300,000.00

The above annual salary range is a general guideline. Multiple factors are taken into consideration to arrive at the final hourly rate/ annual salary to be offered to the selected candidate. Factors include, but are not limited to, the scope and responsibilities of the role, the selected candidate’s work experience, education and training, the work location as well as market and business considerations.

GEICO will consider sponsoring a new qualified applicant for employment authorization for this position.

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Great Careers: Personalized development programs, mentorship, and certification assistance.

Great Culture: Inclusive and collaborative culture rooted in shared success.

Great Rewards: Competitive pay, benefits, and flexibility to support your well-being and future.

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