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At Freddie Mac, you will do important work to build a better housing finance system and you’ll be part of a team helping to make homeownership and rental housing more accessible and affordable across the nation.
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Are you a seasoned leader who is looking for a challenge? Do you embrace change and innovation and push the boundaries of what is possible? Do you embody Agile delivery at the core of your culture and are experienced and ready for a modernized delivery environment? At Freddie Mac, as we are in the throes of a major transformation, and we want you to be a part of it! In this role you will get to show off both your software engineering practices skills as well as your leadership skills.
Responsible for establishing and enforcing team-wide standards and practices for software engineering and development excellence, with a focus on quality, predictability, repeatability, and scalability. Foster a culture of continuous improvement and innovation in delivery within the software development team. Bring a passion to stay on top of tech trends, experiment with and learn new technologies, participate in internal & external technology communities, and mentor other members of the engineering community.
The journey is wide open with possibilities. Here are a few things that you will need to have:
- Champion adoption and adherence to development and testing best practices
- Identify, implement and govern best practices in software development
- Promote continuous integration and continuous delivery practices to help software development teams deliver code changes more frequently and reliably. Adoption of industry standard deployment patterns like feature-toggles, dark-launching, canary releases and blue-green deployment
- Evangelize software engineering metrics to improve operational efficiency and impact on the business
- Keep a pulse on industry trends in software delivery and help the organization envision and adopt.
- Foster ongoing engineering transformation and continuous improvement throughout the organization, advocating for common engineering patterns, efficiency, quality, resiliency, security and performance
• The Multifamily Business Technology Office (BTO) supports the multifamily vertical by crafting and creating solutions to a variety of technology challenges. This support takes many forms, including deploying new technologies such as mobile solutions and microservices, and maintaining critical underwriting and accounting applications. Our operations team also leads a business-focused service desk and is directly involved in the processing of every deal.
Your Impact:
• Accountable for the enforcement of adoption of modern software engineering & delivery practices to bring in operational efficiency and scalable high quality software solutions
• Constantly look for innovative ways to improve engineering practices not afraid to challenge the status quo
- 12 + years of related and proven experience engineering incredible solutions
- 5 years of leadership experience.
- 4-5 + years leading modernized development teams
- Strong technical skills with an understanding of different technologies, architecture patterns, and design principles.
- Solid understanding of modern software engineering practices and iterative development approaches with an emphasis on Agile.
- Deep understanding of the engineering practice maturity, strengths and opportunities in each underlying organization, striving for continuous improvement
- Experience in using Software Engineering Metrics (ex. DORA) as a quantifiable measurements that can be applied widely across your engineering organization to help implement best practices.
- Inclusive leadership style that empowers and enables individuals and teams. Strong cross-functional collaboration and stakeholder management skills and ability to lead by influence rather than strictly authority.
- Excellent coaching skills and comfortable with ‘doing and showing’ recommended practices.
- Knowledge of CI/CD pipeline and Jenkins
- Experience with GitHub/Bitbucket & implementing code reviews using the pull request process
- Experience developing software products in an Agile development environment and exposure to TDD practices.
- Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience; advanced studies/degree preferred
Languages: Java, Spring Boot, Angular, JavaScript, HTML/CSS
• Modern Tools: Jenkins, Cucumber, Atlassian Suite (Jira, Bitbucket), Git
• DBs: PostgreSQL, Mongo
• Cloud: AWS
• Other: EKS, Docker
Keys to Success in this Role:
- Strong hands-on technology, design and implementation skills
- Experience working in fast-paced technical environments to promote agile principles and mindset across the organization.
- Solid understanding of modern software engineering practices and iterative development approaches with an emphasis on Agile.
- Inclusive leadership style that empowers and enables individuals and teams. Strong cross-functional collaboration and stakeholder management skills and ability to lead by influence rather than strictly authority.
- Excellent communication skills and leading and influencing teams of motivated software engineers
- Shown success coaching and redefining 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 timeFLSA Status:ExemptFreddie 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.
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