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Position Overview:

Do you have passion for understanding customer needs and leveraging technology to deliver value?  Do you thrive in a fast-paced and rapidly changing environment?  Do you enjoy working with a team of varying skillsets to collectively discover new opportunities to delight customers? If so, a role in the Enterprise Data Office (EDO) could be a fit for you.
 

The Agile Coaching Senior will be part of the EDO Program helping to transform the way in which Freddie Mac does business.

Our Impact:

As part of the EDO organization, we provide data services and support across the enterprise in the realm of analytics, business intelligence, discovery, geocoding, governance, mastering, modeling, and quality. We are leading the change to build data solutions that enable consolidating, centralizing and consuming shared data for the enterprise to serve various data analytics and reporting needs. 

Your Impact:

You, as our ideal candidate, will have significant impact in our team, and in our world.  You will guide and lead the team through the delivery of software and services, while embracing and promoting the Agile attitude. You will partner with Product Management, Product Owners, and others to define the mission value to help ensure strategy and execution alignment.

The Agile Coaching Senior will be responsible for working directly with a team across the company implementing the Freddie Mac Agile Methodology. This position requires an experienced Agile Coach with a strong understanding of and hands-on experience with Agile Methods, including Scrum and Kanban. This individual will be responsible for facilitating the Freddie Mac Agile Methodology, practices and ceremonies.

You will also:

• Work with Scrum Team to ensure scrum best practices are followed from the initiation through delivery of EDO projects

• Remove impediments or guide the team to remove impediments by finding the right personnel to remove the impediment

• Facilitate the management of the product backlog and coordinate with other Scrum Masters to identify and manage cross-team dependencies

• Build a trusting and safe environment where problems can be raised without fear of blame, retribution, or being judged, with an emphasis of healing and problem solving

• Closely track and monitor the scrum team’s deliverable and reports metrics at the iteration and project levels

• Mentor and coach Scrum team to instill agile values and principles and lead by example

• Assist with internal and external communication, improve transparency, and radiate information

• Support and educate the Product Owner, especially with respect to grooming and maintaining the product backlog

• Facilitate productivity by mediating through conflicts, help team to make decisions, and adhere to continuous improvement principles

• Keep Scrum process on track and pass it to the team as self-organization matures

• Help team adhere to the best engineering practices and make sure everybody understands technical debt concept

• Leverage data to measure & monitor progress

• Ensure agile/Scrum concepts and principles are adhered to, and be able to be a voice of reason and authority

• Have agile mindset, understand what’s behind agile values and principles

• Understand Scrum framework very well and understand values that each artifact/role/event brings

• Remove team impediments and facilitate Agile practices

• Facilitate the creation of a self-organized, self-managed team that can identify and deliver the work that can be completed in a time-boxed Iteration.

• Train, or support the Agile Coaches training, of the team on the Freddie’s Agile methodology, processes and controls

• Ensure the project team adheres to the Freddie Mac Agile Project control

Qualifications:

• Minimum of Certified Scrum Master (CSM) or Agile Certified Scrum Master (PMI-ACP) required; Project Management Professional (PMP) is a plus

• Five or more years of direct experience in one or more aspects of Information Technology (Software design/ development, IT Architecture, or other related IT areas)

• Must have at least 7-10 years of experience.        

Preferred Skills:

• Two or more years of explicit experience as an Agile Scrum Master of an Agile delivery team, preferably in a variety of situations including large organizations

• Kanban certification

• Hands-on VersionOne/JIRA tool experience preferred

• Effective facilitation skills

•  Effective coaching and mentoring skills

• Ability to thrive in a highly ambiguous, fast paced environment where priorities shift rapidly

• Strong problem-solving skills and ability to identify win-win solutions

• Effective influence, collaboration and negotiation skills

Keys to Success in this Role:

• You’ve got a solid business and technical systems acumen

• Proficiency in conflict resolution and negotiation

• Experience interacting with senior leadership

• Empower team members to take ownership of problem-solving

• Proven success coaching and transforming technical teams to shift to modern execution model

Current Freddie Mac employees please apply through the internal career site.

Today, Freddie Mac makes home possible for one in four home borrowers and is one of the largest sources of financing for multifamily housing. Join our smart, creative and dedicated team and you’ll do important work for the housing finance system and make a difference in the lives of others.

We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity and inclusion at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, disability status or any other characteristic protected by applicable law. We will ensure that individuals with differing abilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment. Please contact us to request accommodation.

CA Applicants:  Qualified applications with arrest or conviction records will be considered for employment in accordance with the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers and the California Fair Chance Act.

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Time-type:Full time

FLSA Status:Exempt

Freddie Mac offers a comprehensive total rewards package to include competitive compensation and market-leading benefit programs. Information on these benefit programs is available on our Careers site.

This position has an annualized market-based salary range of $114,000 - $170,000 and is eligible to participate in the annual incentive program. The final salary offered will generally fall within this range and is dependent on various factors including but not limited to the responsibilities of the position, experience, skill set, internal pay equity and other relevant qualifications of the applicant.