Principal Solutions Engineer

Job Description:  

• This is a high-impact opportunity to help drive a mission-critical transformation at BECU. You will play a key role in modernizing core financial systems.
• This role is essential to the program’s success and requires someone who can bring structure, leadership, and foresight to a complex enterprise ERP migration. The ideal candidate has hands-on experience leading similar transformations and can anticipate challenges across systems, integrations, and data flows.
• Bring structure and clarity to project execution, including:
• Work breakdown and sequencing
• Risk identification and mitigation strategies
• Governance and decision frameworks
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams including engineering, infrastructure, business stakeholders, and vendors Mentor and guide engineers and analysts, elevating team capability and delivery maturity.  Ensure alignment with enterprise architecture standards and best practices

What Success Looks Like:

• Clear technical direction and structure established early in the project
• Strong alignment and collaboration across internal teams and contingent staff
• Risks and dependencies proactively identified and managed
• Seamless coordination across systems, integrations, and data flows
• Improved team alignment, delivery confidence, and execution velocity
• A well-executed ERP migration with minimized disruption

Personality:

• Comfortable with ambiguity and takes initiative
• Brings clarity to complex work
• Self-starter with strong ownership
• Proven leader with a solid track record
• Confident, opinionated, and not afraid to speak up
• Passionate and knows how things should be done
• Backs ideas with real experience
• Thinks like a leader and consultant
• Understands complexity and downstream impacts