Hybrid Principal Solutions Engineer

Posted 2 months ago

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About the role

  • Principal Solutions Engineer leading the development of automated cloud-ready solutions at BECU. Driving innovation and technical leadership to protect member services and ensure system resilience.

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.

Requirements

  • 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
  • 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 and employer-funded retirement plan
  • 6.16 hours of paid time off (PTO) per pay period
  • ten paid holidays throughout the calendar year

Job title

Principal Solutions Engineer

Job type

Experience level

Lead

Salary

$184,300 - $225,000 per year

Degree requirement

Bachelor's Degree

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