Overview
The Principal Engineer for Digital Payments will serve as a practice lead, system architect, subject matter expert, and consultant for Money Movement and Payments Modernization initiatives at Navy Federal. This individual must become knowledgeable in our current on-prem systems and modern cloud payments ecosystem and provide recommendation around product architecture, design, development, and modernization. The Principal Engineer will be consulted on Money Movement strategy, design, engineering, and integration efforts providing technical expertise on innovative solutions that leverage the latest technologies. The Principal Engineer will create and implement solutions for Digital Payments and draw out functional and non-functional requirements from business and technology subject matter experts. This individual will manage the architecture and delivery of products and platforms requiring close collaboration with the Technology Product Owner/Managers and Development Leads in Digital Payments, Business Product Owners in Savings & Membership, vendors, and dependent platform and product teams. The Principal Engineer will support the development of the Digital Payments Portfolio Roadmap and the Architectural Runway.
Responsibilities
• Provide subject matter expertise in distributed and cloud technologies including Azure Cloud, MuleSoft Anypoint, Dynamics 365, REST API, Java, Spring Boot, Kubernetes, etc. to support delivery of payments modernization initiatives.
• Lead solution design, system architecture, technical requirements, and design specifications applying modern product development and systems engineering best practices to the implementation of payment solutions.
• Analyze, define, and document requirements for data, workflow, logical processes, hardware and operating systems environment, interfaces with other systems, internal and external controls, and outputs.
• Establish and evolve the architectural runway including technical enablers and architectural experiments / proof of concepts aligned with business priorities.
• Drive the development and effective use of anchor platform technologies to support efficient and effective technology adoption to deliver optimal business outcomes.
• Perform fit-gap analysis on current-state technology options and provide recommendations supporting the transformation to modern payment platforms that align to business needs and objectives.
• Provide detailed information for technology selection, implementation techniques, and tools.
• Lead the implementation of a flexible change management methodology/framework including DevSecOps Continuous Integration & Delivery practices.
• Consult on testing strategy including development testing, performance testing, test automation, system integration testing, etc.
• Partner with Enterprise Architecture, Platform Engineering, and Product Engineering teams on the design, development, implementation, and maintenance of distributed and cloud systems.
• Establish and manage relationships with technology vendors on payment system architecture and design with emphasis on achieving operational effectiveness and ensuring service level agreements are established and met.
• Provide input into the Money Movement / Payment Modernization roadmaps and dependent cross-cutting initiatives.
• Provide oversight in the application of the System Development Lifecycle (SDLC) utilizing Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) practices.
• Collaborate with business and technology team members to support the development of the product backlog including participating in backlog grooming/refinement, PI Planning, and Sprint Planning.
• Contribute to production support activities including deployments, break-fix resolution, and incident management.
• Troubleshoot and resolve issues, work across teams to deliver solutions, and provide technical support and consultation.
• Perform incident / problem root cause analysis to identify and resolve issues causing recurring technical problems.
• Serve as an advisor on projects concerned with specialized or unique engineering requirements.
• Provide input into financial planning including budgetary recommendations.
• Provide guidance to leadership and team members on technology best practices.
• Monitor and analyze metrics to ensure optimal business and technical outcomes.
• Review solutions to ensure alignment with business objectives, organization standards and guidelines, and industry best practices.
• Identify potential problems in design, quality, or operations and initiate corrective action.
• Identify and resolve conflicts between proposed solutions and existing systems to ensure compatibility.
• Identify opportunities to mitigate risk and improve functionality, performance, and security.
• Provide forward-thinking technical expertise in current and emerging technologies, trends, and practices.
• Provide consistent, concise, relevant, reliable, and timely information to internal and external stakeholders through a variety of communication channels.
• Ensure the accuracy of information communicated to support leadership decision-making.
• Collaborate on the development and refinement of standards and best practices.
• Performs other duties as assigned.
Qualifications
• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, related degree, or equivalent combination of training, education, and experience.
• Significant experience in systems engineering at the enterprise level including the analysis and design of cloud and distributed system architectures, preferably within the financial services or fintech sectors supporting modernization initiatives.
• Significant knowledge of system engineering principles, practices, theories, and methods to identify and solve complex problems and perform sophisticated analyses.
• Significant experience with microservice architecture and service-oriented architecture (SOA) within an enterprise business environment.
• Significant experience in software development practices including designing, developing, testing, debugging, and implementing cloud and distributed applications and systems.
• Significant experience with object-oriented programming languages with specific emphasis on Java.
• Significant experience with private, public and hybrid cloud infrastructure with specific emphasis on the Azure Cloud technology stack.
• Advanced hands-on experience and knowledge in web service design and development, including REST, OpenAPI, RAML, WSDL, SOAP web services, REST web services, XSD, XPath, XQuery, XSLT.
• Advanced knowledge of Continuous Integration & Delivery practices and tools.
• Advanced troubleshooting skills and ability to identify root cause of issues and provide solutions.
• Self-motivated and proactive, able to quickly learn and apply new concepts, tools, and applications.
• Advanced problem solving, collaboration, critical thinking, team building, and presentation skills.
• Advanced skill applying innovative approaches to solve complex technical design issues.
• Ability to lead independent teams, exercise initiative, and use good judgement.
• Advanced experience with Scaled Agile Framework and/or Agile software development practices.
• Advanced knowledge of the product management lifecycle.
• Expert verbal, interpersonal and written communication skills.
Desired Qualifications:
• Master’s Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or related degree.
• Advanced knowledge of financial/banking industry standards, regulations, and practices.
• Advanced knowledge of payment systems with specific emphasis on Real-Time Payments (RTP), FedNow, Zelle, ACH, and Cross-Border Payments.
• Advanced knowledge of Navy Federal systems, products, services, programs, policies, and procedures.
Hours: Monday - Friday, 8:00AM - 4:30PM
Location: 820 Follin Lane, Vienna, VA 22180 | 5550 Heritage Oaks Dr. Pensacola, FL 32526
Job postings are subject to close early or extend out longer than the anticipated closing date at the hiring team’s discretion based on qualified applicant volume.
About Us
You have goals, dreams, hobbies, and things you're passionate about—what's important to you is important to us. We're looking for people who not only want to do meaningful, challenging work, keep their skills sharp and move ahead, but who also take time for the things that matter to them—friends, family, and passions. And we're looking for team members who are passionate about our mission—making a difference in military members' and their families' lives. Together, we can make it happen. Don't take our word for it:
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Equal Employment Opportunity: Navy Federal values, celebrates, and enacts diversity in the workplace. Navy Federal takes affirmative action to employ and advance in employment qualified individuals with disabilities, disabled veterans, Armed Forces service medal veterans, recently separated veterans, and other protected veterans. EOE/AA/M/F/Veteran/Disability EOE/AA/M/F/Veteran/Disability
Disclaimers: Navy Federal reserves the right to fill this role at a higher/lower grade level based on business need. An assessment may be required to compete for this position. Job postings are subject to close early or extend out longer than the anticipated closing date at the hiring team’s discretion based on qualified applicant volume. Navy Federal Credit Union assesses market data to establish salary ranges that enable us to remain competitive. You are paid within the salary range, based on your experience, location and market position
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