BECU-posted 2 months ago
$143,000 - $266,300/Yr
Full-time • Senior
Lexington, WA
1,001-5,000 employees

As a Principal Solutions Engineer, you’ll lead the development of resilient, automated, and cloud-ready solutions that protect and empower BECU members. You’ll be at the forefront of launching a technical disaster recovery program that ensures our most critical systems remain operational during outages. Your work will directly support the continuity of essential financial services, reduce risk, and strengthen member trust. You’ll collaborate across teams to drive innovation, select cutting-edge tools, and mentor others in secure, scalable solution design. This is your opportunity to shape the future of financial technology at BECU.

  • Lead Disaster Recovery Program Design: Establish and drive a technical disaster recovery program focused on automation, resilience, and failover readiness across core banking systems.
  • Drive Strategic Planning & Execution: Lead planning for the 2026 automation initiative, including vendor selection, tool onboarding, and milestone delivery.
  • Architect Resilient Solutions: Design cloud-ready, secure applications and integrations that support business continuity and member-facing systems.
  • Collaborate Across Teams: Partner with application owners, infrastructure teams, architects, and risk and cybersecurity teams to ensure seamless coordination and execution.
  • Mentor & Influence: Provide technical leadership and mentorship across the organization, raising the bar for secure and scalable solution design.
  • Prototype & Innovate: Build and test solutions that solve complex business challenges, using modern frameworks and cloud technologies.
  • Communicate & Represent: Present technical concepts to both technical and non-technical audiences, internally and externally, representing BECU in the broader tech community.
  • Support Tool Selection & Automation: Select and implement orchestration and runbook automation tools to improve failover processes and reduce recovery times.
  • Ensure KPI Achievement: Deliver measurable outcomes including reduced failover times, increased automation, and readiness for key project milestones.
  • Bachelor’s degree in a computer science or equivalent work experience.
  • Minimum 10 years of information technology experience with demonstrated expertise in application design.
  • Experience with Financial products, i.e., Credit Card, Mortgage, Loan, Deposits, etc.
  • Experience with public cloud (Azure/AWS/Google Cloud) technologies including IaaS, PaaS, SaaS offerings.
  • Advanced degree preferred.
  • Demonstrated experience in consumer financial products with expertise in UX, integration, and API layer.
  • Experience with .NET, C#, Node.js, and modern JavaScript frameworks in TypeScript or JavaScript (React, Angular, etc.), or Python.
  • System administration and automation with PowerShell or Bash.
  • Strong understanding in SOLID design principles, Object-Oriented Programming and Design.
  • Expertise with SOA patterns and distributed systems design.
  • Experience with CI/CD tools such as Azure DevOps Services, GitHub Actions, Jenkins, or TeamCity.
  • Experience leading and collaborating with multiple teams for enterprise-wide initiatives.
  • Industry conference experience presenting in front of technically adept and non-technical audiences.
  • Medical, dental, vision and life insurance coverage.
  • Disability and AD&D insurance.
  • Health care and dependent care flexible spending accounts.
  • Health savings accounts.
  • 401k plan and employer-funded retirement plan.
  • Accrue 6.16 hours of paid time off (PTO) on a per pay period basis (up to a maximum of 160 PTO hours per year).
  • Receive ten paid holidays throughout the calendar year.
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