Senior Director, IA Engineering

Why Join GEICO?

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 on relentless innovation to exceed our customers' expectations while making a real impact on local communities nationwide.

 

Founded in 1936, GEICO is a member of the Berkshire Hathaway family of companies and one of the largest auto insurers in the United States. When you join our company, we want you to feel valued, supported, and proud to work here. That's why we offer the GEICO Pledge: Great Company, Great Culture, Great Rewards, and Great Careers.

GEICO is seeking a Senior Director of Engineering to lead and modernize the Independent Agent (IA) platform. This leader will own the technical direction, architecture, reliability, and delivery of the platform supporting the IA channel, including P2P/SAPI, CompRater, carrier and partner integrations, and quote and bundle experiences.

The IA platform is business-critical and growing. This role requires a hands-on technology leader who can work through current performance and quality issues, make sound architectural decisions, and build a stronger technical leadership bench. The leader will partner closely with Agency and Product leaders while coordinating delivery across teams with different reporting lines.

What You Will Do

- Own the technical strategy, architecture, and modernization roadmap for the IA platform.

- Set clear technical standards for design, integration patterns, observability, testing, security, and production readiness.

- Improve delivery quality and reduce defects, rework, and operational risk.

- Partner with Business and Product leaders on technology plans and delivery commitments.

- Set technical direction and drive delivery across IA and partner teams.

- Build and lead a high-performing engineering organization through hiring, coaching, and clear accountability.

- Establish efficient delivery processes with clear accountability for progress, risks, and dependencies.

- Serve as the primary technology partner for IA in cross-functional planning.

- Resolve performance, scalability, reliability, and quality challenges through durable engineering improvements.

- Identify and apply AI tools to improve engineering productivity, platform reliability, and agent experience.

Required Qualifications

- 12+ years of software engineering experience, including significant experience leading engineering organizations and technical delivery.

- Experience leading managers and senior technical individual contributors in a complex engineering environment.

- Strong hands-on technical depth in designing, modernizing, and operating enterprise application platforms and distributed systems.

- Track record of improving the performance, reliability, and delivery predictability of business-critical systems.

- Experience leading architecture and integration work across multiple products, teams, and stakeholders.

- Ability to make clear technical tradeoffs and communicate them to engineering and business leaders.

- Experience working in a large enterprise B2B or application-platform environment.

- Experience leading and developing engineering managers and senior technical talent in a complex organization.

Preferred Qualifications

- Experience with comparative rating, quoting, policy, carrier, or partner-integration platforms.

- Experience modernizing legacy platforms while maintaining delivery commitments and production stability.

- A mix of large-company and startup or high-growth operating experience.

- Background at an enterprise software company such as Workday, ServiceNow, Salesforce, Oracle, or a similar application-platform business.

- Familiarity with modern AI technologies and developer tools, with judgment to apply them where they improve engineering productivity, platform reliability, or customer and agent experiences.

 

Annual Salary

$195,000.00 - $315,000.00

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.

 

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.