Introduction
At GEICO Technology Solutions, we are on a journey to revolutionize the Insurtech space with our technology offerings in the Insurance market and provide excellent service with better efficiency to our Customers and Associates. To achieve our vision and mission, we are focusing on transforming our existing tech to deliver products and capabilities that are marketplace ready and are agnostic of the Line of Business or the Channel utilized. With this massive mission, we are looking to build a strong team of skilled and talented Python Engineers within our People & Finance Technology organization to be a core contributor while we expand the team in this space. As a Senior Python Engineer, you will be a key member of the engineering staff, work in a highly collaborative environment and have a passion for building high-performance, low maintenance, zero-downtime platforms, and applications. You will help drive our insurance business transformation as we transition from a traditional IT model to a tech organization with engineering excellence as its mission, while co-creating the culture of psychological safety and continuous improvement. Our team thrives and succeeds in delivering high quality technology products and services in a hyper-growth environment where priorities shift quickly. The ideal candidate has broad and deep full stack development experience with a focus on Python, Postgre, SQL, and Data Governance.
Position Responsibilities
- Design, implement and support data quality solutions.
- Design and implement solutions to manage data products, data contracts and data dictionaries.
- Design and implement data lineage solutions
- Support, troubleshoot, implement, and maintain enterprise data governance solutions
- Support, troubleshoot implement and maintain, resilient distributed systems
- Build product definition and leverage your technical skills to drive towards the right solution
- Engage in cross-functional collaboration throughout the entire software lifecycle
- Define, create, and support reusable application components/patterns from a business and technology perspective
- Mentor other engineers
- Consistently share best practices and improve processes within and across teams
Qualifications
- Programming experience with Python
- Experience with SQL and NoSQL databases
- Experience with SQL query language and relational database concepts
- Experience with API development and integration, Spring Boot framework and other Spring technologies
- Data management experience to include metadata management, data lineage and data quality experience
- Experience with relational and non-relational database technologies such as SQL, Oracle, COSMOS, NoSQL
- Understanding and experience working with Microsoft Azure DevOps (work items, build/release, CICD)
- Understanding of Data Ingestion/ streaming tooling such as ADF (Azure Data Factory), Kafka, FiveTran, Spark, or similar technologies
- Understanding of metadata management, data Ingestion, data management, data quality, and data lineage services and technologies
- Intermediate level understanding of Azure concepts including Azure portal, network security zones, VNETs, public peered services, PAAS (Platform as a Service) and IAAS (Infrastructure as a Service) services
- Experience working with open-source tools (PostgreSQL)
- Experience with shell scripting
- Solid understanding of container orchestration services including Docker and Kubernetes, and a variety of Azure tools and services
- Passion to innovate and provide high quality software for data management applications
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills, including communicating technical issues to non-technical audiences
- Knowledge of n-tier enterprise applications
- Object oriented programming skills and awareness of SOLID design patterns a strong plus
- Advanced understanding of monitoring concepts and tooling
- Experience with continuous delivery and infrastructure as code
- Knowledge of developer tooling across the software development life cycle (task management, source code, building, deployment, operations, real-time communication)
Experience
- 4+ years of professional software development experience with at least one modern language such as Python including object-oriented design
- 3 + years of experience with AWS, GCP, Azure, or another cloud service
- 2+ years of experience in open-source frameworks
Education
Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or equivalent education or work experience
Benefits
As an Associate, you’ll enjoy our benefits to help secure your financial future and preserve your health and well-being, including:
- Premier Medical, Dental and Vision Insurance with no waiting period**
- Paid Vacation, Sick and Parental Leave
- 401(k) Plan
- Tuition Reimbursement
- Paid Training and Licensures
**Coverage begins on the date of hire. Must enroll in New Hire Benefits within 30 days of the date of hire for coverage to take effect.