ETS Principal Solution Engineer-Cloud Core & Accounting Platforms

Navy Federal Credit Union • Vienna, VA

4d • $147,600 - $189,400 • Onsite

About The Position

Navy Federal Credit Union is 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 and Cloud Core Banking modernization. The role delivers 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 with Finance, Accounting, Treasury, product owners, engineers, security teams, and architects, the role establishes solution patterns, integration approaches, and operational controls that support financial integrity and scalability. The position provides technical leadership across enterprise transformation programs and helps translate business objectives into practical, business-aligned technology solutions.

The role is located at 820 Follin Lane, Vienna, Virginia. Hours are Monday through Friday, 8:00 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Applicants must be authorized to work in the United States without current or future sponsorship. Navy Federal may fill the role at a higher or lower grade level based on business need.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, Finance Technology, Accounting Information Systems, or a related field.
• 12 or more 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 in 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 such as Microsoft Azure, Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI), AWS, or similar environments.
• Strong background in enterprise integration technologies, microservices, APIs, event streaming, data transformation, and messaging platforms.
• Experience implementing secure, resilient, and highly available solutions in regulated environments.
• Understanding of data architecture, data governance, lineage, traceability, reconciliation, auditability, and operational controls.
• Experience working in 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.
• Ability to translate business objectives and requirements into scalable, secure, maintainable, and business-aligned technology solutions.
• Must be authorized to work in the United States without the need for current or future sponsorship.

Nice To Haves

• Experience in banking, credit union, lending, payments, deposits, card services, treasury, or financial services domains.
• Experience with financial industry data models such as FSLDM, BFMDW, or 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.
• 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 using APIs, microservices, containers, event platforms, and modern integration frameworks.
• Familiarity with Infrastructure as Code tools such as Terraform, ARM, or Bicep; Kubernetes; container platforms; observability tooling; and modern software engineering practices.

Responsibilities

• Lead solution architecture and engineering for Finance Domain modernization initiatives, including General Ledger Data Flow for Cloud Core modernization.
• Design and implement end-to-end accounting and financial data flow solutions for 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 requirements into solution architectures, engineering designs, implementation roadmaps, and reusable solution patterns.
• Support 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 engineering best practices including DevSecOps, Infrastructure as Code, CI/CD pipelines, automated testing, and operational excellence.
• Provide technical leadership and mentorship across engineering teams, 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.

Benefits

• Highly competitive pay
• Generous benefits and perks
• Meaningful career experience and an energized, engaged, and committed culture

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Principal