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BECU · 21 hours ago

Principal Solutions Engineer

Washington, United States

Full-time

Hybrid

Lead/Staff

$143K/yr - $266K/yr

10+ years exp

BECU is a financial institution dedicated to serving its 1.5 million members with a focus on people rather than profits. As a Principal Solutions Engineer, you will lead the development of automated and resilient solutions, ensuring continuity of essential financial services and driving innovation across teams.

Banking

H1B Sponsor Likely

Responsibilities

Lead Disaster Recovery Program Design: Establish and drive a technical disaster recovery program focused on automation, resilience, and failover readiness across core banking systems

Drive Strategic Planning & Execution: Lead planning for the 2026 automation initiative, including vendor selection, tool onboarding, and milestone delivery

Architect Resilient Solutions: Design cloud-ready, secure applications and integrations that support business continuity and member-facing systems

Collaborate Across Teams: Partner with application owners, infrastructure teams, architects, and risk and cybersecurity teams to ensure seamless coordination and execution

Mentor & Influence: Provide technical leadership and mentorship across the organization, raising the bar for secure and scalable solution design

Prototype & Innovate: Build and test solutions that solve complex business challenges, using modern frameworks and cloud technologies

Communicate & Represent: Present technical concepts to both technical and non-technical audiences, internally and externally, representing BECU in the broader tech community

Support Tool Selection & Automation: Select and implement orchestration and runbook automation tools to improve failover processes and reduce recovery times

Ensure KPI Achievement: Deliver measurable outcomes including reduced failover times, increased automation, and readiness for key project milestones

Qualification

Cloud technologiesApplication designDisaster recoveryFinancial productsCI/CD toolsSystem administrationTechnical leadershipCollaborationMentorshipCommunication

Required

Bachelor's degree in a computer science or equivalent work experience

Minimum 10 years of information technology experience with demonstrated expertise in application design

Experience with Financial products, i.e., Credit Card, Mortgage, Loan, Deposits, etc

Experience with public cloud (Azure/AWS/Google Cloud) technologies including IaaS, PaaS, SaaS offerings

Preferred

Advanced degree preferred

Demonstrated experience in consumer financial products with expertise in UX, integration, and API layer

Experience with .NET, C#, Node.js, and modern JavaScript frameworks in TypeScript or JavaScript (React, Angular, etc.), or Python

System administration and automation with PowerShell or Bash

Strong understanding in SOLID design principles, Object-Oriented Programming and Design

Expertise with SOA patterns and distributed systems design

Experience with CI/CD tools such as Azure DevOps Services, GitHub Actions, Jenkins, or TeamCity

Experience leading and collaborating with multiple teams for enterprise-wide initiatives

Industry conference experience presenting in front of technically adept and non-technical audiences

Benefits

Medical, dental, vision and life insurance coverage

Disability and AD&D insurance

Health care and dependent care flexible spending accounts

Health savings accounts

401k plan

Employer-funded retirement plan

Paid time off (PTO)

Ten paid holidays

Company

BECU

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As a member-owned, not-for-profit financial cooperative, BECU is guided by the credit union philosophy of “people helping people.” In fact, putting people over profit guides our everyday business decisions.

Founded in 1935

Tukwila, Washington, USA

1001-5000 employees

https://www.becu.org/landing/fintech-incubator

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