OVERVIEW

Are you looking to take your career from good to great? As an employee of PenFed, every day is an opportunity to thrive, and be part of a team working to ensure our organization is providing world class service to our members, employees, and our communities. We exist to help our members realize their full potential, educate and encourage their dreams, and make every effort to follow our mission and help our members “do better.” Joining PenFed is more than being an employee; it’s about being a part of the PenFed family.
PenFed is hiring a (Hybrid) Core Banking Engineer II at our Tysons, Virginia; San Antonio, Texas; Irving, Texas or Omaha, Nebraska location. The primary purpose of this job is to perform engineering and implementation specific tasks on enterprise infrastructure systems, services and applications. Responsibilities include, but are not limited to, system design; standards based implementation, capacity planning, systems integration, process / procedure development and refinement, and technical support.

QUALIFICATIONS

Equivalent combination of education and experience is considered.

• Associates or Bachelor’s Degree in related field is preferred.
• In lieu of a degree, combination of education and a minimum of three (3) years of related work experience is required that provides the necessary skills and knowledge to perform all the essential job functions.
• Minimum of five (5) years’ experience with Hogan systems.
• Demonstrated understanding of Network, Compute, Storage, Cloud and End-User technologies.
• Strong interpersonal, problem solving and multi-tasking skills desired.
• Must be able to present system designs for user approval at formal reviews.
• Must be capable to provide solutions to identified systems issues.

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS:

• Experience with any of the following is preferred: DB2, Easytrieve, zLinux, SOAP, XML, Web Services, Micro Services and Celeriti.
• Distributed platforms knowledge will also be factored: ASP, SQL Server, Sybase, .Net, Java, JavaScript, Visual Basic, VBScript.

ABOUT US

Established in 1935, PenFed today is one of the country’s strongest and most stable financial institutions with over 2.9 million members and over $31 billion in assets. We serve members in all 50 states and the District of Columbia, as well as in Guam and Puerto Rico. We are federally insured by NCUA and we are an Equal Housing Lender. We are available to members worldwide, via the web, seven days a week, twenty-four hours a day.
We provide our employees with a lucrative benefits package including robust medical, dental and vision plan options, plenty of paid time off, 401k with employer match, on-site fitness facilities at our larger locations, and more.

Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. This is not intended to be an all-inclusive list of job duties and the position will perform other duties as assigned.

• Provide technical support for enterprise systems. Troubleshoot, repair and recover from basic hardware or software failures in accordance with standard operating procedures.
• Perform routine operational tasks, verifying the integrity and availability of all hardware, resources, systems, and key processes. Review system and application logs, and verify completion of scheduled jobs.
• Perform systems related maintenance such as hardware rebooting, patching, backups, snapshots, health monitoring, hardware/software asset management, software distribution and server decommissioning.
• Installing, configuring, testing and maintaining systems, application software and system management tools.
• Maintain the highest levels of systems and infrastructure availability.
• Interact with senior engineers to identify areas of improvement for operational efficiency.
• Work closely with technical and non-technical personnel within and across PenFed departments and vendors.
• Comply with Incident Management and Change Management procedures and reporting practices.
• Serve as a Technical Lead and provide Subject Matter Expertise for project/task planning, estimation, scheduling, and staffing.
• Lead and contribute to design discussions and ensure that designs are aligned with the PenFed Secure By Design philosophy, the PenFed architecture, and also the current roadmap.
• Collaborate with senior engineers and Enterprise Architecture to design systems of high complexity.
• Review system/application designs to ensure the selection of appropriate technologies, the efficient use of resources, and the proper integration of systems and technologies.
• Assume technical responsibility for all stages of the software development process to ensure compliance with application development standards and achievement of documented requirements.
• Develop and maintain accurate system/application documentation via the use of flowcharts, diagrams, and other relevant tools.
• Perform code reviews and/or review pull requests to ensure adherence to established standards and practices.
• Accountable for providing escalation support to troubleshoot and maintain production systems and to resolve production issues and outages.
• Interact with other engineers and management to identify areas of improvement for operational efficiency.
• Assign work to technical staff, monitor their performance, and report on their progress.
• Remain current on relevant/new technologies and available vendor packages; evaluate and make recommendations for adoption as appropriate.
• Provide advice, guidance, and assistance to junior engineers in researching technical problems and designs of varying complexity in order to develop staff capabilities.
• Review recommendations from junior engineers. Advocate and/or implement these recommendations, as appropriate.
• Participate in on-call 24x7 support as needed in the event of system outage or failure.