Senior Staff Engineer, M365 & AI Platform Leadership

GEICO; Dallas (TX); Hybrid; USD 130,000 - 260,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid- 3 Days Onsite*

Job summary

GEICO is seeking a Senior Staff Engineer to set technical direction for secure and resilient Microsoft 365 and AI capabilities. You will lead architecture decisions across cross-functional teams and mentor engineers while delivering scalable, maintainable solutions.

The role combines hands-on software engineering with strategic roadmaps, governance, and collaborative leadership to shape enterprise-grade platforms.

Qualifications

• 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, Microsoft Graph APIs, Git, CI/CD, and IaC.
• Advanced administration and engineering experience across Microsoft 365 with tenant governance.
• Hands-on Microsoft Copilot experience and knowledge of generative AI, agents, retrieval-augmented generation, prompt 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, 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, 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 operational 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.

Skills

PowerShell

.NET/C#

JavaScript/TypeScript

Python

Go

Microsoft Graph

Git

CI/CD

IaC

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science/Engineering

Tools

Azure DevOps

GitHub Actions

Job description

GEICO is seeking a Senior Staff Engineer to set technical direction for secure and resilient Microsoft 365 and AI capabilities. You will lead architecture decisions across cross-functional teams and mentor engineers while delivering scalable, maintainable solutions.

The role combines hands-on software engineering with strategic roadmaps, governance, and collaborative leadership to shape enterprise-grade platforms.