GEICO

Senior Staff Engineer, Productivity

GEICO
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Chicago, IL, USA +4 moreStaff+

Base Salary

$130k - $260k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Lead architecture, design, engineering, implementation, and continuous improvement of enterprise Microsoft 365 and AI platform capabilities.
  • Remain hands-on with software engineering, PowerShell, programming, APIs, infrastructure and configuration as code, testing, telemetry, troubleshooting, and root-cause analysis.
  • Translate business requirements into technical designs, architecture decisions, delivery plans, reusable patterns, and nonfunctional requirements.
  • Establish standards for secure design, maintainability, reliability, performance, testability, observability, deployment, and operational ownership.
  • Lead architecture, code, automation, configuration, integration, production-readiness, and platform-change reviews.
  • Create reusable components, reference architectures, and automation that improve delivery speed and consistency.
  • Drive service maturity through telemetry, capacity planning, problem management, post-incident analysis, and corrective engineering.
  • Provide technical leadership for Exchange Online, SharePoint Online, OneDrive, Microsoft Teams, Microsoft Graph, and related Microsoft 365 services.
  • Design and govern tenant configurations, identity integrations, lifecycle controls, security and compliance settings, information protection, retention, external collaboration, and administrative practices.
  • Lead technical strategy, engineering, and governance for Microsoft 365 Copilot, Microsoft Copilot Chat, agents, connectors, plugins, and related AI capabilities.
  • Design secure patterns for retrieval, agent actions, identity, permissions, data boundaries, content lifecycle, auditability, monitoring, and human oversight.
  • Define evaluation criteria and controls for AI accuracy, relevance, safety, security, reliability, user experience, business value, oversharing, sensitive-data exposure, and cost or usage.
  • Develop technical roadmaps, influence leaders through options and recommendations, lead vendor and technology evaluations, mentor engineers, and communicate with technical and executive audiences.

Requirements

  • At least 10+ years of professional engineering, platform, infrastructure, or software development experience with significant architecture and design responsibility.
  • Extensive experience engineering and operating complex enterprise platforms across architecture, automation, integration, testing, deployment, observability, reliability, and production support.
  • Strong proficiency in PowerShell, .NET, C#, and at least one of Python, Java, Go, or JavaScript/TypeScript.
  • Experience with Microsoft Graph APIs, Git, pull requests, CI/CD, and infrastructure or configuration as code.
  • Advanced Microsoft 365 administration and engineering experience with deep expertise in several core workloads and tenant governance.
  • Hands-on Microsoft Copilot experience and working knowledge of generative AI, agents, retrieval-augmented generation, prompt and context design, evaluation, responsible AI, security, and data governance.
  • Strong understanding of Azure, modern identity, OAuth 2.0, OpenID Connect, SAML, certificates, secrets, APIs, networking, and zero-trust principles.
  • Demonstrated success influencing across teams, leading architecture decisions, mentoring engineers, and communicating with technical and executive audiences.
  • Enterprise experience leading complex, cross-functional technical initiatives and delivering production services.
  • Preferred experience with Microsoft 365 Copilot, productivity agents, Microsoft Graph connectors, plugins, enterprise knowledge grounding, Azure AI Foundry, Azure AI services, model evaluation, content safety, responsible AI reviews, and AI observability.
  • Preferred experience operating Microsoft 365 in a large regulated enterprise and using GitHub, GitHub Actions, Azure DevOps, automated testing, and configuration validation.
  • Relevant certifications such as Microsoft 365 Administrator Expert, Cybersecurity Architect Expert, Azure Solutions Architect Expert, Power Platform Solution Architect Expert, or Azure AI Engineer Associate.

Benefits

  • Hybrid work arrangement with three days onsite.
  • Personalized development programs, mentorship, and certification assistance.
  • Competitive pay, benefits, and flexibility to support employee well-being and future needs.

Tech Stack

AzureC#GitGitHub ActionsGoJavaJavaScript.NETPowerShellPythonTypeScript

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GEICO

About GEICO

10,000+ employees

GEICO sells auto and other personal lines insurance to U.S. consumers through a primarily direct-to-consumer model via web, mobile, and phone, with some local agents. Its products include car, motorcycle, RV, boat, homeowners, renters, condo, umbrella, and commercial auto coverage, plus roadside assistance. Founded in 1936 and headquartered in Bethesda, Maryland, GEICO is a subsidiary of Berkshire Hathaway and is among the largest auto insurers in the United States.

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