Overview To organize, direct, oversee, and shape the strategic direction of Navy Federal's digital experiences and ecosystems, including the structure, performance, and approach for delivering secure, convenient, and effective digital capabilities for members and team members. To oversee the design, delivery, and optimization of digital solutions that enhance member satisfaction, streamline internal operations, reduce operational costs, increase efficiency, and support sustainable growth. To ensure Navy Federal continues to meet members' evolving expectations for personalization, convenience, and security across all digital touchpoints. To coordinate across Digital Engineering, Enterprise Portfolios, the Member Strategy Office (MSO), and executive stakeholders from partner business units to establish priorities and align digital investments to strategic objectives. To lead and develop teams of digital experience professionals and direct matrixed partners in translating strategy into execution, ensuring digital initiatives deliver measurable business and member outcomes.
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Navy Federal Credit Union currently does not provide sponsorship for this role. Applicants must be authorized to work in the United States without the need for current or future sponsorship. Responsibilities - Develop and execute the strategic vision and roadmap for assigned initiative areas in alignment with the company's goals and objectives
- Champion a member-centric approach grounded in cooperative principles and deep understanding of credit-union products, services, and regulatory considerations.
- Lead experienced employees in fostering a culture of innovation, collaboration, and excellence
- Translate credit-union strategy, member needs, and operational goals into a cohesive digital experience roadmap.
- Partner with business leaders across retail, lending, operations, and marketing to ensure digital solutions support growth, service excellence, and operational efficiency.
- Establish and maintain strong relationships with senior leadership, stakeholders, vendors, and partners across the organization
- Partner with business leaders across retail, lending, operations, and marketing to ensure digital solutions support growth, service excellence, and operational efficiency.
- Proactively communicate with all levels regarding the status, progress, issues, and risks of assigned Digital projects and initiatives
- Establish and maintain lines of communication with Digital leadership teams to provide transparency to potential risks that could impact schedule, scope, and budget of delivery
- Partner with management and key staff from other business units to audit and investigate operational risk issues and develop solutions
- Ensure that Digital experience solutions adhere to the highest standards of quality, security, compliance, member and team member experience
- Generate recommendations and/or solutions focused on optimizing business efficiencies via data collection and analysis
- Drive the creation of solutions that include data-driven feedback loops to power persist or pivot decisions for technology investments
- Oversee and manage budget, resources, and the performance of assigned initiative areas
- Stay abreast of the latest trends, technologies, and best practices in assigned initiative areas and related fields
- Bring external perspective and ideas from relevant sources, keep current with technology, government/policy impacts and industry best practices
- Partner with management and key staff from other business units to audit and investigate operational risk issues and develop solutions
- Establish performance metrics, key performance indicators (KPIs), and benchmarks to assess and improve Digital experience delivery
- Implement change management strategies to ensure a smooth transition to new technologies and processes, involving training, communication, and stakeholder buy-in
- Perform other related duties as assigned
Qualifications - Significant experience working in a large-scale, enterprise-wide IT organization with responsibility for data management
- Deep understanding and practical experience in adopting and implementing Agile tools to drive transparency and accountability across the organization including relevant metrics to show progress and improvements
- Excellent knowledge of digital business processes, key trends and value drivers - ability to use this knowledge to generate or influence new ideas to optimize effectiveness
- Significant experience in understanding management priorities and vision regarding how data can be used to optimize services
- Significant experience in applications/systems analysis, workflow and/or procedural analysis
- Advanced knowledge of data querying, reporting, forecasting, analysis and operations research, including statistical methods and modeling
- Significant experience working with all levels of staff, management, stakeholders, vendors diplomatically and tactfully
- Significant experience developing and implementing programs in a leadership role
- Advanced relationship building, negotiation and facilitation skills
- Advanced skill in the analysis of technical issues in order to recommend, develop and/or implement strategies and achieve objectives
- Advanced analytical thinking skills to include summarizing information and clearly identifying key elements, patterns, results or relationships
- Advanced skill in planning and coordinating changes, including understanding cross system dependencies and impacts
- Bachelor's Degree in Information Systems, Computer Science , related field, or the equivalent combination of education, training and experience
Desired Qualifications- Master's Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or related field
- Advanced knowledge of NFCU's functions, philosophy, operations and organizational objectives
Hours: Monday - Friday, 8:00AM - 4:30PM
Location: 820 Follin Lane, Vienna, VA 22180 | 5510 Heritage Oaks Drive, Pensacola, FL 32526 | 141 Security Drive, Winchester, VA 22602 | 9999 Willow Creek Road San Diego, CA 92131
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Disclaimers: Navy Federal reserves the right to fill this role at a higher/lower grade level based on business need. An assessment may be required to compete for this position. Job postings are subject to close early or extend out longer than the anticipated closing date at the hiring team's discretion based on qualified applicant volume. Navy Federal Credit Union assesses market data to establish salary ranges that enable us to remain competitive. You are paid within the salary range, based on your experience, location and market position. For additional details regarding compensation and benefits, review the Benefits page of the Navy Federal Career Site.
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