Senior Systems Engineer
About The Position
Serve as the Product Owner for assigned systems and capabilities, translating business needs into product priorities, requirements, workflows, and measurable outcomes. Own the backlog and roadmap, coordinate stakeholders, engineering teams, and vendors, and guide work from analysis through release and operational support. Evaluate business impact, dependencies, controls, testing, readiness, and performance. Work independently as a key contributor on complex initiatives affecting member experience, risk, compliance, and operations. The role also involves leading product initiatives and small projects, supporting system performance and availability, and building working relationships with team members and subject matter experts. The position is based at one of the listed locations: 820 Follin Lane, Vienna, Virginia, or 5550 Heritage Oaks Drive, Pensacola, Florida. Hours are Monday through Friday, 8:00 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Navy Federal Credit Union does not provide sponsorship for this role; applicants must be authorized to work in the United States without current or future sponsorship.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, Business, or a related field, or an equivalent combination of education, training, and experience.
- 5–7 years of experience in product ownership, business analysis, systems analysis, security, or a related technology role.
- Advanced knowledge of product ownership, requirements analysis, backlog management, and Agile delivery practices.
- Experience translating business needs into clear requirements, workflows, user stories, and acceptance criteria.
- Experience partnering with software engineering and technical teams; programming or software development experience is not required.
- Experience coordinating complex, cross-functional initiatives with business, operational, risk, or control impacts.
- Knowledge of system integrations, data flows, technical dependencies, controls, testing, release readiness, and operational support.
- Experience using performance measures, cost-benefit analysis, and other analytical methods to support prioritization and decisions.
- Strong analytical, prioritization, decision-making, facilitation, negotiation, and problem-solving skills.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills across business, technical, vendor, and management audiences.
- Ability to manage multiple priorities independently and collaboratively while meeting delivery commitments.
- Proficiency with standard productivity, presentation, spreadsheet, and work-management tools.
- Applicants must be authorized to work in the United States without current or future sponsorship.
Responsibilities
- Own and communicate product vision, roadmap, priorities, and expected outcomes.
- Gather, analyze, and document stakeholder needs, business processes, workflows, requirements, and acceptance criteria.
- Maintain and prioritize the product backlog, including features, user stories, dependencies, risks, and decisions.
- Coordinate feasibility analysis and evaluate solution options with business, architecture, engineering, security, operations, and vendors.
- Ensure requirements address quality, risk, compliance, controls, reliability, performance, and member impact.
- Coordinate testing, approvals, release readiness, production implementation, and transition to operational support.
- Partner with technical teams on incident triage and root cause analysis, and prioritize corrective and preventive actions.
- Review operational performance, feedback, incidents, and product metrics to identify and prioritize improvements.
- Align cross-functional teams and vendors, resolve conflicts and dependencies, and communicate recommendations and decisions.
- Represent the business area in cross-organizational initiatives and provide clear updates to management and stakeholders.
- Support change adoption through stakeholder impact assessments, communications, and implementation plans.
- Identify and document preventive, detective, and corrective controls and actions to address control deficiencies.
- Research industry practices and emerging capabilities and recommend options aligned with business goals.
- Lead product initiatives and facilitate backlog refinement, planning, reviews, and stakeholder discussions.
- Troubleshoot and debug errors during or after enhancements or upgrades to help maintain system performance and availability goals.
- Build working relationships with team members and subject matter experts.
- Monitor and maintain operational systems to prevent downtime.
- Lead small projects and initiatives.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
