Position Overview:

Software Development Manager is a key team member of the Freddie Mac's Enterprise Risk Management Technologies Team within Enterprise Business Technology Office. Financial Risk and Compliance Management technology team is responsible for partnering with the Enterprise Financial Risk Management and Compliance organizations to deliver capabilities that transform the businesses. This role will be responsible for a sophisticated portfolio of the financial risk management and compliance solutions within the Enterprise Risk Management technology organization.

Software Development Manager will lead multi-discipline technology teams, provide technical mentorship, interface with vendors, and ensure alignment between programs, business partners, and Enterprise Operations and Technology teams and strategies. This position requires a strong communicator who can translate complex technical issues into easily understood communications, while playing a key role in shaping the future of some of our best and brightest software engineers.

Our Impact:

• Delivery of Enterprise Financial Risk Management solutions, including enterprise model risk governance, credit risk oversight, and price verification to optimally assess and track all risks, issues, controls, and compliance.

• Delivery and support of solutions for the Compliance organization, including fraud detection technologies.

• Adoption of FHFA comprehensive Regulatory Reporting modifications and resolution of outstanding data quality issues.

• Integration with a common Enterprise Risk Management (ERM) data platform to enable effective ERM data analytics and reporting.

Your Impact:

• Lead development teams to design, develop and maintain software applications portfolio.

• Continue to Improve our portfolio by modernizing our technology and team capabilities, taking advantage of emerging trends.

• Assess architectural changes, technology platform decisions, and new technology selection and introduction for its impacts to the business.

• Lead the reporting and remediation of security vulnerabilities and application obsolescence.

• Engage with business users, application owners and other parties to understand Business needs and processes; identify solutions, present and guide project team/sponsors in identifying best solution.

• Establish operational objectives and work plans. Prepare materials for Senior management reviews. Involved in developing, modifying, and executing company policies that effect immediate operations that have a company-wide effect.

• Implement solutions to satisfy Corporate and FHFA scorecards.

• Regularly interact with senior management or executive levels on matters concerning Financial Risk Management area and/or customers. Requires an ability to influence others in sensitive situations, while maintaining productive business relationships.

• Provide solutions support when issues are identified either by the Product Team or as triaged and raised by the Global Operations.

• Attract, recruit, retain, and develop top talent
• Be a role model and a technical mentor to the junior and midlevel developers, work alongside of highly collaborative, open minded, technology savvy and dedicated team members.

Qualifications:

• 10+ years of software development and delivery experience

• 3+ years of software management experience

• Hands on development experience with cloud platforms (AWS, Azure), modern architectures (micro-services), development languages (Java, JavaScript, Python), DevSecOps

• Experience in directing a team of 10+ technology professionals

• Experience with model governance and AI

• Experience with SaaS implementations

• In depth experience designing solutions that are: Secure, Resilient, Scalable, Transformative

• Strong work ethic, self-motivated, independent, and works with minimal direction.

• Experience with Agile development and product teams

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience

Keys to Success in this Role:

• Excellent analytical skills for efficient problem diagnosis and resolution (creative thinker)
• Strong accountability, both individually to your work as well as to the team
• Ability to work independently and collaborate effectively in a team environment
• Inquisitive nature, eager to learn new concepts and technologies
• Eagerness to help customers and team members with positive attitude
• Deliver prompt and high-quality customer service
• Excellent verbal, written and interpersonal skills
• Ability to multi-task in a fast paced, constantly changing environment
• Must be a team player and able to work collaboratively with and through others
• Effective listening verbal communication 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 $153,000 - $229,000 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.