Engineering Director

At GEICO we offer a rewarding career where your ambitions are met with endless possibilities.

Every day we honor our iconic brand by offering quality coverage to millions of customers and being there when they need us most. We thrive through relentless innovation to exceed our customers expectations while making a real impact for our company through our shared purpose.

When you join our company we want you to feel valued supported and proud to work here. Thats why we offer The GEICO Pledge: Great Company Great Culture Great Rewards and Great Careers.

At GEICO we offer a rewarding career where your ambitions are met with endless possibilities. Every day we honor our iconic brand by offering quality coverage to millions of customers and being there when they need us most. We thrive through relentless innovation to exceed our customers expectations while making a real impact for our company through our shared purpose. When you join our company we want you to feel valued supported and proud to work here. Thats why we offer The GEICO Pledge: Great Company Great Culture Great Rewards and Great Careers.

We seek a highly motivated Engineering Director to build and scale an AI-first agentic-first GEICO Enterprise Platform that measurably improves associate experience while meeting enterprise standards for availability reliability performance and compliance.

Location: Preference is for the candidate to be based in Seattle or Dallas.

Reports To: Head of Enterprise Experience Engineering Technology

As a successful Geico Enterprise Engineering Director you will:-

• Deliver measurable business impact by shipping prioritized enterprise experience capabilities on schedule with clear adoption and outcome metrics.
• Provide a scalable performant platform (services onboarding) that enables teams to integrate quickly with standardized patterns and reusable components.
• Validate AI/agentic solutions through rapid POCs and production pilots documenting learnings risks and recommended standards for enterprise reuse.
• Modernize and migrate targeted platform components to the public cloud to improve elasticity cost efficiency and time-to-scale.
• Define and socialize reference architectures best practices and implementation playbooks that raise consistency and delivery velocity across partner teams.
• Improve operational health by increasing automation for common failure modes and reducing repeat incidents through durable engineering fixes.
• Execute predictable delivery via agile planning and transparent reporting of scope risks dependencies and platform scale/performance requirements.
• Raise engineering quality by enforcing code standards reviews and performance best practices across the platform.
• Deliver end-to-end observability by instrumenting telemetry dashboards and alerting from day one for all critical services.
• Use telemetry and customer-of-IT (associate) signals to make data-driven design tradeoffs and demonstrate improvements over time.

Preferred Experience:

• 3 years leading and developing high-performing engineering teams with evidence of delivery and measurable outcomes.
• 7 years building enterprise software in one or more languages (e.g. Java C# C/C) with strong object-oriented design fundamentals.
• Bachelors degree in Computer Sience Engineering Mathematics or a related technical discipline (or equivalent experience).
• Proven ability to design globally distributed systems (queuing/workflows load balancing caching storage and service-to-service communication) with reliability and scale in mind.
• Working proficiency in data/query and automation tooling (e.g. T-SQL JavaScript/TypeScript PowerShell) to enable self-service operational excellence and repeatable delivery.

Annual Salary

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 candidates work experience education and training the work location as well as market and business considerations.

The GEICO Pledge:

Great Company:At GEICO we help our customers through lifes twists and turns. Our mission is to protect people when they need it most and were constantly evolving to stay ahead of their needs.

Were an iconic brand that thrives on innovation exceeding our customers expectations and enabling our collective success. From day one youll take on exciting challenges that help you grow and collaborate with dynamic teams who want to make a positive impact on peoples lives.

Great Careers:We offer a career where you can learn grow and thrive through personalized development programs created with your career and your potential in mind. Youll have access to industry leading training certification assistance career mentorship and coaching with supportive leaders at all levels.

Great Culture:We foster an inclusive culture of shared success rooted in integrity a bias for action and a winning mindset. Grounded by our core values we have an an established culture of caring inclusion and belonging that values different perspectives. Our teams are led by dynamic multi-faceted teams led by supportive leaders driven by performance excellence and unified under a shared purpose.

As part of our culture we also offer employee engagement and recognition programs that reward the positive impact our work makes on the lives of our customers.

Great Rewards:We offer compensation and benefits built to enhance your physical well-being mental and emotional health and financial future.

• Comprehensive Total Rewards program that offers personalized coverage tailor-made for you and your familys overall well-being.
• Financial benefits including market-competitive compensation; a 401K savings plan vested from day one that offers a 6% match; performance and recognition-based incentives; and tuition assistance.
• Access to additional benefits like mental healthcare as well as fertility and adoption assistance.
• Supports flexibility- We provide workplace flexibility as well as our GEICO Flex program which offers the ability to work from anywhere in the US for up to four weeks per year.

The equal employment opportunity policy of the GEICO Companies provides for a fair and equal employment opportunity for all associates and job applicants regardless of race color religious creed national origin ancestry age gender pregnancy sexual orientation gender identity marital status familial status disability or genetic information in compliance with applicable federal state and local law. GEICO hires and promotes individuals solely on the basis of their qualifications for the job to be filled.

GEICO reasonably accommodates qualified individuals with disabilities to enable them to receive equal employment opportunity and/or perform the essential functions of the job unless the accommodation would impose an undue hardship to the Company. This applies to all applicants and associates. GEICO also provides a work environment in which each associate is able to be productive and work to the best of their ability. We do not condone or tolerate an atmosphere of intimidation or harassment. We expect and require the cooperation of all associates in maintaining an atmosphere free from discrimination and harassment with mutual respect by and for all associates and applicants.