ETS Principal Solution Engineer-Cloud Core & Accounting Platforms

Overview

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.

To support Navy Federal's Cloud Core Banking modernization efforts, we are seeking an experienced Principal Solution Engineer to lead the design and implementation of accounting platforms, General Ledger Data Flow capabilities, and enterprise financial integrations supporting Finance Transformation initiatives.

In this role, the incumbent will deliver secure, scalable, and auditable solutions for accounting event management, financial transaction processing, reconciliation, reporting, and regulatory compliance across Cloud Core Banking, Oracle ERP, and related financial platforms. Working closely with Finance, Accounting, Treasury, product owners, engineers, security teams, and architects, you will establish solution patterns, integration approaches, and operational controls that ensure financial integrity and scalability.

The ideal candidate brings strong solution engineering expertise and experience across financial systems, enterprise integration, cloud-native architectures, and large-scale transformation programs, with the ability to translate business objectives into practical, business-aligned technology solutions.

If you are an experienced technology leader with expertise in financial systems, accounting platforms, and enterprise integration, we invite you to help shape the next generation of Finance and Accounting capabilities supporting Navy Federal's Cloud Core Banking transformation.

This role offers the opportunity to deliver strategic modernization initiatives that enhance financial integrity, operational resilience, and scalable enterprise growth.

Responsibilities

• Lead solution architecture and engineering activities supporting Finance Domain modernization initiatives, including General Ledger Data Flow supporting our Cloud Core modernization journey.
• Design and implement end-to-end accounting and financial data flow solutions supporting accounting event processing, journal generation, reconciliation, financial controls, and reporting.
• Define and implement secure, scalable integration architectures using APIs, event-driven patterns, streaming technologies, and cloud-native services.
• Establish architecture patterns and implementation standards for financial transaction processing, accounting event management, reconciliation, and financial data governance.
• Partner with business and technology stakeholders to translate business requirements into solution architectures, engineering designs, implementation roadmaps, and reusable solution patterns.
• Support the integration and modernization of Oracle ERP, AHCS, AFCS, ARCS, Frontier, Cloud Core Banking platforms, Azure data platforms, and related financial systems.
• Design solutions that provide end-to-end transaction lineage, traceability, auditability, reconciliation, and regulatory compliance.
• Establish monitoring, resiliency, operational support, and observability capabilities for mission-critical financial processing platforms.
• Drive adoption of engineering best practices including DevSecOps, Infrastructure as Code (IaC), CI/CD pipelines, automated testing, and operational excellence.
• Provide technical leadership and mentorship across engineering teams while promoting architectural consistency, platform reuse, and delivery excellence.
• Support enterprise transformation initiatives involving core banking modernization, ERP modernization, finance transformation, accounting platform modernization, and enterprise integration programs.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, Finance Technology, Accounting Information Systems, or a related field.
• 12 years of experience in solution architecture, software engineering, integration engineering, platform engineering, or related technology disciplines.
• Proven experience designing and delivering enterprise-scale financial systems, integration platforms, or data-driven applications.
• Demonstrated experience supporting large-scale transformation programs, preferably within banking, financial services, credit unions, payments, or related industries.
• Demonstrated experience supporting General Ledger, accounting hubs, ERP, accounting event management, reconciliation, financial reporting, or financial data integration platforms.
• Strong experience designing API-driven, event-driven, and cloud-native integration architectures.
• Experience delivering solutions on cloud platforms including Microsoft Azure, Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI), AWS, or similar cloud environments.
• Strong background in enterprise integration technologies, microservices, APIs, event streaming, data transformation, and messaging platforms.
• Experience implementing secure, resilient, and highly available solutions within regulated environments.
• Solid understanding of data architecture, data governance, lineage, traceability, reconciliation, auditability, and operational controls.
• Experience working within DevOps and DevSecOps environments, including CI/CD automation, monitoring, deployment management, and operational support.
• Strong analytical, problem-solving, stakeholder management, and communication skills with the ability to collaborate across business and technology organizations.
• Demonstrated ability to translate business objectives and requirements into scalable, secure, maintainable, and business-aligned technology solutions.

Desired Qualifications

• Experience in banking, credit union, lending, payments, deposits, card services, treasury, or financial services domains.
• Experience in financial industry data models like Financial Services Logical Data Model (FSLDM) or Banking and Financial Markets Data Warehouse Model (BFMDW) or Oracle Financial Services Data Foundation (OFSDF).
• Knowledge of banking transaction processing, accounting event generation, settlement, reconciliation, and financial reporting processes.
• Deep understanding of General Ledger accounting, journal processing, financial reconciliation, accounting controls, and accounting event management concepts.
• Knowledge of tax accounting, interest accrual processing, fee income recognition, charge-offs, recoveries, and related financial services accounting practices.
• Deep understanding of auditability, regulatory reporting, compliance, traceability, and financial controls within regulated financial institutions.
• Experience supporting Finance Transformation, ERP modernization, accounting hub implementations, or core banking modernization programs.
• Experience with Oracle AHCS, AFCS, ARCS, Frontier, Oracle ERP, or similar accounting and reconciliation platforms.
• Experience with Oracle Banking products (OBCS, OBA, OBPM, OBRL) or comparable core banking platforms.
• Experience with Azure Data Lake, Azure Integration Services, Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI), or enterprise cloud platforms.
• Knowledge of event-driven architectures, streaming technologies, data integration platforms, and enterprise messaging solutions.
• Experience implementing cloud-native architectures, leveraging APIs, microservices, containers, event platforms, and modern integration frameworks.
• Familiarity with Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, ARM, Bicep), Kubernetes, container platforms, observability tooling, and modern software engineering practices.

Additional Information

Hours:

• Monday - Friday, 8:00AM - 4:30PM

Location:

• 820 Follin Lane, Vienna, VA 22180

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