IT Engineer Development

About the Role:
Navy Federal Credit Union (NFCU) is seeking a visionary yet hands-on Senior Developer Experience (DevEx) Engineer. You will be a founding individual contributor supporting NFCU s DevEx initiative. Our mission is to reduce developer cognitive load accelerate engineering velocity and deliver an outstanding developer experience.
You ll partner closely with engineering leadership product teams and fellow platform engineers to modernize and optimize every aspect of the software development lifecycle from onboarding to deployment. AI tooling expertise is a must as you will help embed intelligent automation and developer-assist capabilities throughout our workflows. You will also play a key role in renovating and extending our core data platforms for high observability reliability and actionable insights.

Key Responsibilities:
Developer Experience & Platform Engineering
Define and own the Developer Experience roadmap for the Platform Team aligned with organizational goals.
Experience with IDP tools such as backstage cortex etc.
Design build and maintain internal developer platforms that simplify and standardize development workflows.
Integrate and champion AI-powered developer tools (AI-assisted code generation intelligent code review automated documentation).
Continuously evaluate emerging AI development tools and APIs for workflow integration.
Establish and promote best practices for Azure DevOps CI/CD pipelines local development environments and cloud-native deployments.
Reduce developer cognitive load by abstracting infrastructure complexity improving release management and championing self-service capabilities.
Drive self-service solutions for engineers to provision test and deploy safely and autonomously.
Optimize feedback loops in partnership with product teams to enable rapid iteration and higher-quality releases.
Measure and improve DORA/SPACE and developer productivity metrics using data for continuous improvements.
Lead developer education/enablement initiatives; produce demos presentations and certify new DevEx features.
Evaluate and implement security compliance and observability best practices into developer toolchains.
Ensure secure and responsible AI tooling usage in line with org AI governance.
Advocate for an engineering culture of continuous improvement.



Platform & Data Engineering
Drive digital innovation by leveraging new technologies and methodologies to transform core data assets (SQL NoSQL and Cloud-based data platforms).
Implement efficient data flows: code data pulls transformations and exchanges across internal/external sources.
Work with complex possibly noisy data ensuring data consistency and collaborating with upstream teams.
Define cost-efficient data storage strategies for CI/CD data repositories.
Architect and promote reusable data assets managing reference data catalogs and surfacing data for end-user consumption via Azure API Apps or modern visualization tools.
Aggregate/analyze internal/external structured and unstructured data and deliver actionable insights to decision-makers.
Implement advanced monitoring logging and observability practices for developer workflows and data pipelines.

Required Qualifications:
8 years professional software engineering experience with 3 years in platform engineering developer experience or DevOps roles.
Track record of delivering developer productivity and platform initiatives at scale.
Deep experience with cloud-native development (Azure DevOps GitHub Enterprise Kubernetes) and CI/CD.
Expertise in integrating and using AI-powered development tools (e.g. GitHub Copilot OpenAI API AI-based testing).
Solid knowledge of software delivery metrics (DORA SPACE) and improvement methods.
Advanced proficiency in at least one programming language (Java Go Python etc.) and modern IaC tools (Terraform).
Experience building/operating new platform/DX functions and influencing technical direction.
Exceptional communication and stakeholder management skills; able to bridge infra product and engineering concerns.
Extensive Azure expertise: Azure DevOps (ADO) Azure SQL Azure NoSQL Azure APIs Event Hub Stream Analytics Storage Log Analytics.
Working knowledge of ELK stack (Elastic Splunk) and cloud-based monitoring/logging.
Scripting/automation skills (PowerShell Python YAML).
Experience configuring cloud monitoring (Azure Application Insights Log Analytics/KQL).
AWS experience (EC2 S3 EMR) and cloud data migration.

Preferred Qualifications:
Experience in multi-team engineering environments with a core focus on developer enablement.
Familiarity with Team Topologies and cognitive load reduction strategies.
Previous work integrating observability monitoring and logging in developer-facing systems.
Event-driven architecture and microservices experience.
Hands-on secure software supply chain practices (SBOMs artifact signing etc.).
Experience with BI tools and dashboards (Tableau Business Objects).
Experience with DevOps/CI/CD tooling (Maven Jenkins Stash Ansible Docker).
Experience using Agile methodologies (Kanban SCRUM).