The Sr. Developer will serve as a subject matter expert overseeing the design, development, testing, and deployment of Core Payments products and features working in collaboration with architecture, platform, product, operations, and business teams to accelerate the delivery of innovative money movement solutions and capabilities aligned with member-centric business initiatives and corporate strategies.
This role ensures adherence to SDLC, operational, architectural, and security standards, and provides technical guidance to both leadership and junior team members.
The Sr. Developer specializes in delivering cloud-based services and applications, requires extensive knowledge of integration technologies, and works independently on complex projects.
Familiarity with Navy Federal's core banking platform, payment products, cloud, and platform strategy is preferred.

Requirements

Bachelor's Degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, or a related degree, or an equivalent combination of training, education, and experience
10-12 years of experience in software development
Significant experience in one or more of the following disciplines: systems engineering, software engineering, technology management.
Enabled event streaming for critical use cases such as payments, notifications, audit events, and system integrations
Designed and led event-driven architectures to enable loosely coupled, scalable, and resilient systems across payment and core financial platforms.
Significant experience with: object-oriented programming languages with specific emphasis on Java / J2EE, developing web services, microservices, APIs using REST and SOAP architecture patterns, developing and deploying applications to private, public, and hybrid cloud infrastructure (e.g., Azure), Enterprise cloud data platforms (e.g., Azure SQL, Azure Cosmos, Azure Data Lake), Continuous Integration & Delivery practices and tools, software development practices including defining, developing, testing, and implementing system requirements; designing, coding, debugging applications deployed to on-prem and cloud platform environments, engineering principles, practices, theories, and methods to identify and solve complex problems and perform sophisticated analyses, end-to-end IT process, including architecture, design & engineering, implementation, and operations, Agile software development practices, Product management lifecycle, Developing scripts or applications to automate system/application deployment, configuration, or management
Advanced skills: Troubleshooting and resolving technical problems, systems analysis, workflow, and procedural analysis, applying innovative approaches to solve technical design issues, influencing and guiding strategic thinking, resolving conflicting requests and meeting changing requirements, Designing and deploying new, upgraded and/or existing systems, analyzing and organizing problems or work processes for technical solutions, problem solving, collaboration, critical thinking, team building, and presentation skills, Database, presentation software skills and research
Expert organizational, planning and time management skills
Experience working with all levels of staff (leading, guiding and mentoring others), management, stakeholders and vendors
Demonstrated ability to solve complex system/integration problems through innovative solutions.

Benefits

Competitive pay
Generous benefits and perks

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Hard Skills & Tools

JavaJ2EEobject-oriented programmingweb servicesmicroservicesAPIsRESTSOAPcloud infrastructureContinuous Integration & Delivery

Soft Skills

troubleshootingsystems analysisproblem solvingcollaborationcritical thinkingteam buildingpresentation skillsorganizational skillsplanning skillstime management