Principal Application Engineer (Core Banking Platform)

Navy Federal Credit Union currently does not provide sponsorship for this role. Applicants must be authorized to work in the United States without the need for current or future sponsorship.

The Principal Engineer, Core Banking Modernization will provide enterprise-level technical leadership for the design, implementation, certification, and evolution of the capabilities required to operate NFCU’s legacy and modern banking platforms as one logical banking ecosystem. The role will lead the engineering of the Core Banking Platform, with focus on dual-core coexistence. This role partners closely with business, product, architecture, engineering, and transformation teams to translate strategic objectives into scalable, secure, and resilient technology solutions.

The Principal Engineer provides deep technical expertise in core banking platforms, system integration, cloud-native architectures, DevSecOps, and modernization methodologies. This role will support the implementation and delivery of our Core Banking modernization program with a specific focus on co-existence of on premise and cloud banking platforms as an enabler for complete migration to a new core banking platform.

- Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or related discipline, or equivalent combination of education and experience.
- 15+ years of software engineering, solution architecture, and enterprise technology experience in Core Banking domain.
- Advanced knowledge of Core Banking platforms (e.g. Fiserv, FIS) .
- Significant experience in intersection of Core Banking with Retail Banking, Payments, Lending, or Products and Pricing (e.g.Zafin) environments
- Proven experience designing and delivering large-scale modernization, migration, or digital transformation initiatives migrating from mainframe systems to SaaS application.
- Hands-on experience with cloud-native architectures, distributed systems, API platforms (e.g. Mulesoft), event-driven solutions (e.g.Apache Kafka), and enterprise integrations patterns .
- Significant experience implementing DevSecOps, CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins and open source tools, automated testing frameworks, and modern software engineering practices.
- Experience working within highly regulated environments.
- Deep knowledge of security, compliance, resiliency, and operational excellence principles.
- Experience with automated testing, CI/CD pipelines, observability, monitoring, and site reliability concepts.
- Strong understanding of application modernization and legacy migration strategies.

Desired Qualifications

- Advanced knowledge of mainframe-based FIS banking core and modern core banking technology.
- Knowledge of Oracle cloud technologies, Azure and hybrid cloud architectures.

Additional Information

Hours:

- Monday - Friday, 8:00AM - 4:30PM

Location:

- 820 Follin Lane, Vienna, VA 22180
- 5510 Heritage Oaks Drive, Pensacola, FL 32526
- 141 Security Drive, Winchester, VA 22602