ETS Principal Engineer – Core Banking Foundation Services (API Engineering)

Navy Federal Credit Union; Vienna (VA); On-site; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Navy Federal Credit Union in Vienna, Virginia, is seeking an ETS Principal Engineer to design, modernize, and scale API capabilities that drive the core banking ecosystem. You will partner with engineering, architecture, testing, security, and operations teams to build secure, scalable API services and automated delivery pipelines.

The role emphasizes cloud-native integration patterns in Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI), engineering standards, and improving platform reliability and efficiency

Qualifications

• Experience designing and implementing API services.
• Strong background in cloud-native integration patterns.
• Automation of delivery pipelines and infrastructure as code.
• DevOps practices including monitoring and security.

Responsibilities

• Design, modernize, and scale API capabilities for core banking.
• Collaborate with engineering, architecture, testing, security, and operations teams.
• Establish engineering standards and improve platform reliability and efficiency.

Skills

API engineering

Cloud-native integration

Automation

DevOps practices

Tools

Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI)

CI/CD pipelines

Job description

Navy Federal Credit Union currently does not provide sponsorship for this role. Applicants must beauthorized to work in the United States without the need for current or future sponsorship.

Join Navy Federal's Core Banking Foundation Services team as an ETS Principal Engineer, helping design, modernize, and scale the integration and API capabilities that enable the enterprise core banking ecosystem. This role is ideal for an experienced engineer who brings deep expertise in API engineering, cloud-native integration patterns, automation, and DevOps practices within Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI). The selected candidate will partner closely with engineering, architecture, testing, security, and operations teams to build secure, scalable, and reusable API services, automate delivery pipelines, and establish engineering standards that support the organization's core banking transformation initiatives. This position offers the opportunity to influence enterprise integration strategy, improve platform reliability and operational efficiency, and help shape the future state of critical banking services supporting millions of member interactions.