Senior API & Cloud Integration Architect — Core Banking

Navy Federal Credit Union; Winchester (VA); On-site; USD 150,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

Navy Federal Credit Union is seeking an ETS Principal Engineer to design, modernize, and scale API and integration capabilities within OCI. You will lead cloud-native solutions, define engineering standards, automate pipelines, and mentor teams to advance core banking transformations.

The role emphasizes secure, scalable API services, observability, and collaboration across architecture, security, and operations to support millions of member interactions.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience in a technical field.
• 15+ years of software, API, cloud, or integration engineering.
• Experience with API management platforms (OCI API Gateway, MuleSoft).
• Strong REST API design and enterprise integration expertise.
• Hands-on CI/CD, deployment automation (Azure DevOps, GitHub).
• Automated testing frameworks for APIs and integrations (Postman, Newman).
• Scripting in Python/PowerShell; automation for reliability.
• OCI services and cloud-native deployment knowledge.
• Event-driven architectures and distributed systems experience.
• Observability, monitoring, logging, and runbook practices.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and support enterprise API and integration solutions.
• Define API standards, governance, and reusable frameworks.
• Lead cloud-native integration using OCI and API management tech.
• Architect and implement CI/CD pipelines for APIs and services.
• Develop automated API testing and regression capabilities.
• Create automation to improve reliability and deployment consistency.
• Partner with teams to deliver secure, resilient integration services.
• Drive DevSecOps adoption including security scanning and secrets management.
• Lead investigations for production issues affecting APIs and integrations.
• Establish monitoring and health metrics for API platforms.
• Evaluate new technologies to boost platform capabilities.
• Provide technical leadership and mentoring to engineers.
• Maintain architecture docs and runbooks.

Skills

API engineering

Cloud engineering

DevOps practices

CI/CD

SRE / Observability

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

OCI API Gateway

MuleSoft

Postman

Azure DevOps

GitHub

Newman

Docker

Kubernetes

Job description

Navy Federal Credit Union is seeking an ETS Principal Engineer to design, modernize, and scale API and integration capabilities within OCI. You will lead cloud-native solutions, define engineering standards, automate pipelines, and mentor teams to advance core banking transformations.

The role emphasizes secure, scalable API services, observability, and collaboration across architecture, security, and operations to support millions of member interactions.