Position Overview:

Freddie Mac’s Investments & Capital Markets Division is currently seeking a Financial Model Development Lead for a large strategic project.   The candidate will be part of a team responsible for supporting a wide range of internal customers. The position is focused on designing, developing and solutioning data pipelines and AI/ML model reports.

Our Impact:

The Capital Markets division supports the liquidity of the mortgage markets and makes funding more available by purchasing mortgage-related securities guaranteed by Freddie Mac and other financial institutions in its investment portfolio. The Business Technology Office supports all of the technology for this division.

Your Impact:

• Design, develop, conduct unit testing, and maintain complex data pipelines and AI\ML reports for scalability, manageability, extensibility, performance and re-use

• Provide technical expertise in areas of reporting architecture, design, and implementation.

• Work through iterative review cycles to deliver results that meet or exceed user expectations.

• Create engaging and detailed materials including user guides, specification documents, release notes and testing results documents

Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Financial Engineering, or a related quantitative subject area

• At least 7+ years of hands-on data pipelines development, testing and delivery experience

• At least 5 years of experience developing in Python programming

• At least 3 years’ experience working at a lead level, comfortable with communicating design concepts and setting expectations for model reporting tools

• Experience building production systems for business-critical processes

• Experience writing automated unit, integration, regression, performance and acceptance tests

• Solid understanding of software design principles

• Implement new models and data transformations using Python based technologies such as PySpark, Spark and Pandas

• Fully utilize AWS services such as Elastic Map Reduce (EMR) to parallelize the process and reduce the runtime

• Optimize Python code to reduce runtime and memory usage

• Write high quality automated tests to validate your code

Keys to Success in this Role:

• Passionate about hands-on software development

• Strong collaboration and communication skills (both written and verbal), including interacting with data scientists on technical topics

• Desire to continuously improve the technical quality and architecture of our systems to respond to business needs

• Ability to quickly learn, apply and deploy new technologies to solve emerging problems

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.

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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 $143,000 - $215,000 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.