Senior Staff Engineer, M365 & AI Platform Lead

GEICO Norwalk; Bethesda (MD); Hybrid; USD 130,000 - 260,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid work schedule (3 days onsite)

Job summary

GEICO in Bethesda, MD seeks a Senior Staff Engineer to set technical direction and deliver secure Microsoft 365 and AI capabilities, leading architecture and engineering decisions across cross-functional teams.

You will mentor engineers, shape standards for security, reliability, and observability, and translate complex business needs into scalable designs with reusable patterns and automation.

Qualifications

• Extensive experience in 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, Microsoft Graph APIs, Git, pull requests, CI/CD, and infrastructure or configuration as code.
• Microsoft 365 expertise with advanced administration and engineering across core workloads and governance.
• Hands-on experience with M365 Copilot, AI capabilities, responsible AI practices, and security/data governance.
• Leadership: influencing across teams, mentoring engineers, and communicating with technical and executive audiences.

Responsibilities

• Lead architecture, design, engineering, implementation, and continuous improvement of enterprise Microsoft 365 and AI platform capabilities.
• Remain hands-on with software engineering, PowerShell, general-purpose programming, APIs, infrastructure as code, testing, telemetry, troubleshooting, and root-cause analysis.
• Translate complex 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 ownership.
• Lead reviews for architecture, code, automation, configurations, integrations, production readiness, and significant platform changes.
• Create reusable components, reference architectures, and automation to improve delivery speed and consistency.
• Drive service maturity through telemetry, capacity planning, problem management, post-incident analysis, and corrective engineering.

Skills

PowerShell

C#

.NET

Python

Java

Go

JavaScript

Git

CI/CD

Microsoft Graph APIs

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/Engineering

Tools

Azure DevOps

CI/CD tooling

Job description

GEICO in Bethesda, MD seeks a Senior Staff Engineer to set technical direction and deliver secure Microsoft 365 and AI capabilities, leading architecture and engineering decisions across cross-functional teams.

You will mentor engineers, shape standards for security, reliability, and observability, and translate complex business needs into scalable designs with reusable patterns and automation.