Overview 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. To research, evaluate, design, implement, and maintain the Advanced Lending System (ALS) module and related product solutions within FIS Systematics. Assist with coordinating activities between multiple disciplines within IT and vendors on both technical and non-technical issues. Apply subject matter expertise as a key stakeholder/key contributor on complex ALS initiatives and project teams. Conduct complex work assignments under limited supervision.
Responsibilities - Lead current and upcoming integrations of the ALS module with a variety of product technologies
- Define the application design and delivery adhering to a Service Oriented Architecture paradigm, so that different components work seamlessly
- Drive system requirements, system specifications, input/output processes and working parameters by using systems engineering best practices
- Lead the development work streams responsible for creating compliant platforms
- Responsible for systems analysis, design, development, integration, enhancement, and deployment as well as application support for various applications
- Lead the deployment of new modules, upgrades and fixes
- Define, develop or modify software application modules or enterprise wide software systems using disciplined development processes
- Implement integration plans and interface with testing teams to incorporate plans into the integration testing process
- Prepare and present functional design specifications and design project process flow
- Provide specific detailed information for hardware and software selection, implementation techniques and tools for the most efficient solution to meet business needs
- Research, evaluate, recommend, and implement information technology that aligns with business needs and meets objectives
- Use holistic knowledge of all products in the information technology ecosystem to plan how new systems will be built and integrated
- Install, maintain, and perform configuration of infrastructure applications
- Create and manage life cycle of technical specifications from which programs and configurations will be applied to create the application, infrastructure or complete solution
- Review solutions to ensure alignment with customer objectives, organization guidelines/benchmarks and industry best practices
- Define and establish structure, process and governance mechanisms for knowledge management and knowledge sharing platforms (e.g., assimilation, classification and dissemination, etc.)
- Create operational artifacts, run-books and service level agreement documents associated with Cloud Data Platform services and products
- Serve as an advisor providing advice and counsel on assignments concerned with specialized or unique engineering requirements
- Participate in the creation of entire systems (e.g., clients, server hardware, network, databases, etc.)
- Provide technical direction and leadership routinely to other engineers; serve as a coach and mentor
- Identify potential problems in design, quality, or operation and initiate corrective action
- Maintain technical expertise in all areas of network and computer hardware and software interconnection and interfacing, such as routers, multiplexers, firewalls, hubs, bridges, gateways, etc.
- Identify opportunities to effectively mitigate risk and improve performance and functionality
- Drive system testing including evaluation, verification & validation activities
- Install, maintain, and configure systems infrastructure on a widely distributed network
- Provide forward thinking technical expertise in current and emerging technologies, trends and practices
Qualifications - 5+ years of experience in application or software development engineering, preferably at the enterprise level with a large financial services organization
- Significant experience with Advanced Lending System (ALS) within FIS framework
- Significant experience with private, public and hybrid cloud infrastructure (e.g., AWS, Azure, Google Cloud, Oracle Cloud, etc.)
- Significant experience in working with big data technologies (e.g., Hadoop, Spark, etc.)
- Significant experience with Agile software development practices including Scrum, JIRA, Peer Review, Git and CI/CD
- Significant experience with Microsoft Windows and Unix/Linux server operating systems
- Significant experience with modern network enabled relational databases
- Advanced knowledge of Unix and Linux systems
- Advanced knowledge of networking protocols (e.g., TCP/IP, HTTP, etc.) and standard network architectures
- Advanced knowledge of databases, NoSQL systems, storage and distributed persistence technologies
- Advanced knowledge of continuous integration and deployment and tools chain (e.g., GIT, Jenkins, Maven, RunDeck, Terraform, Ansible, etc.)
- Advanced knowledge of discipline engineering principles, practices, and theories, and methods to identify and solve the highest complex problems and perform sophisticated analyses
- Advanced knowledge of system engineering design methods including requirements analysis and flowdown, specification derivation and interface control documentation
- Advanced knowledge and understanding of the end-to-end IT process, including architecture, design & engineering, implementation, and operations
- Significant experience in developing scripts or applications to automate systems implementation, configuration, or management
- Advanced knowledge of project lifecycles and management methodologies
- Significant experience in cloud migration and engineering cloud centric environments
- Significant experience leading systems analysis, design, and architecture efforts
- Significant experience with system architectures in a service oriented and enterprise service business environment
- Self-motivated and proactive, able to learn quickly and apply new concepts, tools and applications
- Demonstrated ability to solve complex system/integration problems through innovative solutions
- Advanced troubleshooting skills and ability to identify root causes of issues and provide solutions
- Advanced problem solving, collaboration, critical thinking, team building, and presentation skills
- Advanced skill applying innovative approaches to solve technical design issues
- Expert verbal, interpersonal and written communication skills
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or related field, or the equivalent combination of education, training and experience
Desired Qualifications- Master's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or related field
- Mainframe, FIS Systematics and Cloud Experience
- Significant experience writing converging programs, debugging or testing.
- Significant experience with Cobol, mainframe, CICS, Easytrieve, Assembler, Rexx
- Significant experience with Job Control language (JCL) and ESP Scheduler.
- Significant experience migrating from FIS Systematics to Cloud
- Advanced knowledge of banking/financial industry trends, products, and services
- Advanced knowledge of Navy Federal products, services, programs, policies
Additional InformationHours:- Monday - Friday, 8:00AM - 4:30PM
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