Sr. Technical Program Manager
GEICO
Palo Alto, California
Contract
$130,000
OfficeManager
Why Join GEICO?
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Position Summary
GEICO is seeking a Senior Technical Program Manager to support a transformational, multi-stakeholder strategic initiative to help build the future of insurance technology. At GEICO, the Policy Engineering teams are on a mission to redefine how insurance policies are built, managed, and evolved. We're designing world-class services that are modular, resilient, and ready to power intelligent automation across the enterprise, and we need a Senior Technical Program Manager to help us drive execution excellence for one of our most strategic projects.
Position Description
Our Senior Technical Program Managerapplies program management principles and best practices to lead complex, transformational strategic programs that span multiple teams. Developed communication and diplomacy skills are required to guideand influence others across program leadership as well as technical & business delivery teams. Technical acumen isrequired to identify and manage technical dependencies and/or risks/impediments within and beyond program teams. Capability to project manage, drive accountability by standing up a predictable, accurate, relevant and timelysystems to enable transparent reporting on our journey to build systems and derisk uncertainty.
Position Responsibilities
As a Senior Technical Program Manager,you will:
Be accountable for planning and managing a group of related activities across multiple teams in a coordinated way from inception through successful delivery.
Partner with Technical, Product, Business and Architectural leadership to define technically sound steps that define and refine technology solutions on time, on budget and meeting a quality bar for functional requirements.
Ensure program roadmap manages dependencies with other related programs.
Integrate subject matter and technical expertise to lead definition and execution of a program plan informing work performed by many teams
Leverage Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) to inform progress against the roadmap
Keep technical debt in check
Leverage intellectual curiosity to identify risks & opportunities, and question where appropriate to find better solutions
Work across multiple agile teams. Work may be cross-cutting across products, agile teams, and/or technologies or your work may be vertically focused on a single product or feature set.
Understand the needs of the engineers and technical operations teams who build, maintain, and operate the system for the life of the system.
Recognize complex designs and propose simplified solutions by working with engineering teams
Focus on the customer experience, regulatory expectation and mandates, the build and delivery processes and the problems to be solved. Have a deep understanding of the business and technical requirements for the solutions being built.
Help customers and the engineering teams make trade-off decisions by considering all the data including business goals, technical platform strategy, customer experience, maintainability, risks, costs, etc.
Work autonomously, seeking guidance as needed
Identify blocking issues and manage their resolution, anticipatebottlenecks and adequately factor in contingency for unplanned delays. You identify, assess, track and mitigate issues and risks at multiple levels. Remove/mitigate all blocking issues, collaborating with Business Leads, Engineering teams, and Product Managers.
Recognize discordant views and take part in constructive dialog to resolve them
Break down very complex technical programs, abstract technical complexity and present this information to non-technical stakeholders and decision makers. Communicate roll up of program issues and status in a concise, accurate, and professional manner for senior leadership consumption, escalating blocking issues when appropriate.
Contribute to standards and program management best practices helping the organization improve across all initiatives
Qualifications
Ability to interact with senior leaders and adapt style as needed for technical or non-technical audiences
Strong analytical and quantitative skills; Data driven and results-oriented
Experience delivering with an agile methodology, including through SAFe managed teams
Organizational and coordination skills along with multi-tasking capabilities to get things done in an environment
Ability to motivate and focus a collaboration to reach challenging goals
Interpersonal skills, including relationship building and collaboration within a diverse, cross-functional team
Demonstrated experience as a strong leader who can prioritize well, communicate clearly and compellingly, effectively influencing across cross functional teams
Experience
10+ years of program management experience and leading large software delivery
6+ years overseeing large scale Tech budgets, timelines and management processes
Education
Bachelor’s degree in a technical or operations discipline or equivalent experience
Annual Salary
$130,000.00 - $260,000.00The 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.
The GEICO Pledge:
Great Company: Protecting customers through life’s twists and turns with innovation and integrity.
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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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.