Workday Financial Senior Solution Architect/Tech Lead *Hybrid*

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. That’s why we offer The GEICO Pledge: Great Company, Great Culture, Great Rewards and Great Careers.

GEICO is seeking an experienced Workday Financial Senior Solution Architect that will function as a Tech Lead. 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 Senior Solution Architect (formal role is: Senior Staff Engineer) works with other Engineers to innovate and build new systems, improve and enhance existing systems as well as identify new opportunities to apply your knowledge to solve critical problems. You will lead the strategy and execution of a technical roadmap that will increase the velocity of delivering products and unlock new engineering capabilities. The ideal candidate has deep technical and functional expertise in Financial and Spend Mgmt. and has experience across multiple companies to introduce best practices leveraging their broad and deep knowledge of various ERPs (e.g. Workday, PeopleSoft; Oracle EBS; Oracle Cloud; Hyperion; or SAP).

Position Responsibilities

As a Senior Staff Engineer, you will:

• Focus initially on the Finance domain and provide technical and thought leadership before helping the enterprise drive technology solutioning

• Leverage your deep Technical and Functional Finance systems expertise to drive towards the right solution to support the department and GEICO’s current and future needs

• Engage in cross-functional collaboration throughout the entire software lifecycle.

• Provide support for Workday inbound and outbound integration issues, changes to existing integrations and develop new integrations

• Lead design sessions with peers to ensure systems are well designed, efficient, and meet Business expectations

• Leverage experience with various ERPs (e.g. Workday, PeopleSoft; Oracle EBS; Oracle Cloud; Hyperion; or SAP) to enhance existing applications or build new ones to support GEICO’s Finance organization

• Leverage your deep understanding of Finance, Accounting, and Management Reporting to drive solutions to meet business requirements

• Collaborate with product managers, team members, customers, and other engineering teams to solve our toughest problems

• Develop and execute technical software development strategy across the Finance Tech

• Accountable for the quality, usability, and performance of the solutions

• Be a role model and mentor, helping to coach and strengthen the technical expertise and know-how of our engineering and product community. Influence and educate executives

• Consistently share best practices and improve processes within and across teams

Qualifications

• 10+ years of Finance domain experience with industry leading ERP solutions (e.g. implementing and supporting Workday, PeopleSoft; Oracle EBS; Oracle Cloud; Hyperion; or SAP)

• 8+ years of experience with architecture and design of Financial EPR Implementation

• Deep Finance domain expertise to be able to interpret Finance requirements into solutions

• Strong understanding of accounting process; Management reporting philosophies; and cross-finance practices to ensure data, integrations, and solutions are well designed

• Exemplary ability to design, perform experiments, and influence engineering direction and product roadmap

• Ability to communicate and work directly with business leaders across Technology and Finance

• Experience with designing, developing, implementing, and maintaining solutions for complex integrations

• Experience with developing systems that are scalable, resilient, and highly available

• Experience in working with data mart/repository/lake to support enterprise functions

• Understanding of system monitoring concepts and tooling

• Experience partnering with engineering teams and transferring research to production

• Experience solving analytical problems with quantitative approaches

• Knowledge of developer tooling across the software development life cycle (task management, source code, building, deployment, operations, real-time communication)

• Ability to work independently and in a team-oriented collaborative environment

Education

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, Mathematics, or equivalent education or work experience

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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 candidate’s 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 life’s twists and turns. Our mission is to protect people when they need it most and we’re constantly evolving to stay ahead of their needs.

We’re an iconic brand that thrives on innovation, exceeding our customers’ expectations and enabling our collective success. From day one, you’ll take on exciting challenges that help you grow and collaborate with dynamic teams who want to make a positive impact on people’s 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.  You’ll 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 family’s 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.