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Position Overview:

Toolchain is a key component of Freddie Mac’s Modern Delivery program. It provides tools to transform the development & delivery of business capabilities using an automated workflow with embedded controls that deploys to a cloud-based infrastructure. This role will be accountable for strategic leadership of Modern Delivery Toolchain as a Product! That includes, but not limited to overall vision, design, prioritization, stakeholder & risk management, roadmap execution & operations of the toolchain.

Our Impact:

Key outcomes include:

• Provide best in class support for 5000+ users & multiple mission critical products across the Enterprise.

• Partner with Business Technology & IT Technology, Risk, Security divisions to ensure alignment of solution design with information security standards, architecture standards, governance, and compliance requirements.

• Manage toolchain operations such as resiliency, capacity, uptime in a highly effective manner

• Collaborate with stakeholders from disparate lines of business to prioritize capabilities and a customer value centric strategic roadmap

• Partner with Governance groups on principles, and guidelines that enable engineering teams to deliver low risk, high impact solutions

• Build & communicate on new capabilities, action plans to close gaps and meet roadmap commitments

Your Impact:

• Develop solution design & roadmap for CICD automation with embedded controls for complex scenarios such as governance, experimentation using modular patterns to expand automation of emerging & established cloud native stack across industry standard cloud providers

• Strategy to deliver business priorities such as confi gure and integrate automation of testing, security & risk management policy enforcement and of release management functions such as change record, asset records, change traceability

• Drive operational excellence capabilities such as Single Sign-On, Monitoring Dashboards, Audit compliance reports, password & vulnerability management

• Develop open lines of communication with senior leaders, within and across divisions

• Coach teams to collaborate effectively focused on customer centric outcomes

• Accountable to self-identify emerging technology risk as well as action plans and execution of open risks

• Be a trusted partner for technical consultation executives and senior leadership across business, platform, risk, and other partners to align roadmap with Business & IT’s strategic vision

Qualifications:

• College Degree or equivalent experience; 10-15 years technology experience and 4+ years management experience

• Experience across design, oversight of build & operating solutions with strong organization and time management skills

• Operate independently with minimal guidance with demonstrated experience of delivery

• Use of multiple automation tools & plugins via API, Embedded scripts, Configuration for COTS tools for both pre & post actions for controls across tools for control activities such as merge checks, task/story approvals

• Create a modular library for Jenkins DSL using Groovy; with strategy on when to determine refactor need & devise a staggered plan to meet enterprise automation use cases

• Create, organize & manage a central set of templates across technology microservices (java, JS, python), automations (scriptrunner, helm deployment patterns for cloud components such as storage, DB, gateway, vault across runtimes such as EKS, OCP using tools/products such as Rafay, Ansible, CFT, Terraform); with extensible framework as a design principle

• Experience in integrating Jenkins for data product deployments like Attunity, Talend, Snowflake

• Experience in designing and integrating with SAS products like salesforce, Automation anywhere(RPA), Appian, MicroStrategy etc.. for automating the build, deploy and release process

• Design KPI indicators (including load & scalability) and monitor operation/ runtime across tools (such as Atlassian- Jira, Bitbucket, Confluence; Jenkins, Rafay), Integrations such as security (Fortify, Blackduck, Checkmarx, Twistlock, ELK), with strategy to manage continuous availability & code-based configuration to swap tools as needed

• Design engineering productivity metrics, such as merge size/time/frequency/ releases to provide actionable insight for customers to evolve their software dev & delivery practices

• Experience to review cloud cost using tools such as Apptio to identify opportunities and devise action plan to reduce cost by right-sizing compute, storage, API calls across cloud native services used by customer & toolchain environments

• Build strategy to accelerate capability build with federated-contributor mode – with guardrails for enterprise controls, scale & maintainability

• Experience with AWS native services for releases, upgrades, vulnerability remediation for COTS products on managed infrastructure

Keys to Success in this Role:

• Comfortable working with unknowns; Outstanding verbal and written communication skills to concisely present complex technical aspects, linking between technology & business partners

• Ability to influence and work with multiple senior leadership partners to establish goals, objectives, and action plans.

• Ability to critically evaluate information, reconcile confl icts and self-motivated with strong organizational and time management skills  

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 $176,000 - $264,000 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.