About the role

Senior Principal Platform Engineer at Navy Federal designing and maintaining scalable infrastructure platforms for application delivery and operations. Leading complex projects with significant business impact in IT systems administration.

Responsibilities

Design, implement, and maintain infrastructure platforms for delivering applications.
Build and manage scalable, reliable, and reusable platforms, tools, and environments for application development, deployment, and operations.
Perform work associated with IT infrastructure and systems administration to include installation, configuration, administration, support and maintenance of IT software and hardware systems, IT data/voice network systems, and internal databases.
Develop information technology strategies, polices and plans.
Ensure performance and resource availability of computers and other IT systems.
Work independently to solve unique and highly complex problems that have broad impact on the business.
Contribute to the development of functional strategy by recommending best practices and process improvements.
Lead the development and enhancement of practices, procedures, and instructions.

Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or related field, or the equivalent combination of education, training, and experience.
Master's Degree in Information Technology, Engineering, or related field, or the equivalent combination of education, training, and experience.
15+ years of experience in function.
Broad expertise in specialization and complete understanding of related disciplines.
Extensive experience with software and platform engineering concepts and methodologies and current development languages and methods.
Expert skill involving technical applications/languages, information technology or specialized engineering methods.
Extensive experience with Platform Engineering, Systems Engineering, or Cloud Engineering (AWS, Azure, GCP).
Expert skill in scripting languages for automation tasks (Python, Bash).
Extensive experience with configuration management tools.
Extensive experience with CI/CD pipelines and tools.
Expert communication skills and ability to convey complex technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders.
1+ years Pega Platform `24.1 experience.
**Desired Qualifications**
Advanced knowledge of NFCU operations, processes and procedures.
Pega System Architect Certification.
Pega Sr System Architect Certification.
Pega Lead System Architect Certification.
Pega Robotics System Architect Certification.
Pega Decisioning Consultant Certification.
Pega Platform `25.1 Experience.

This position is eligible for the TalentQuest employee referral program.
Navy Federal provides much more than a job. We provide a meaningful career experience, including a culture that is energized, engaged and committed; and fierce appreciation for our teams, who are rewarded with highly competitive pay and generous benefits and perks.