Agile Development Senior

At Freddie Mac, our mission of Making Home Possible is what motivates us, and it’s at the core of everything we do. Since our charter in 1970, we have made home possible for more than 90 million families across the country. Join an organization where your work contributes to a greater purpose.

Agile Development, Senior

Job Description

Position Overview SEC:

We have a great opportunity for an Agile Development, Senior to join the SF Credit Risk Transfer Securitization (CRT Sec) team and work in a fast-paced Modern delivery team. Are you excited to work in a fast-paced Agile environment and enjoy working in a multitude of technologies? If so, join our team of open minded, highly motivated individuals who are currently working in an interesting mix of cloud-based technologies within Single-Family Business Technology Office (BTO) group.

Our Impact:

Freddie Mac is an industry leader building the future of technology for the housing/finance industry.

Our Modern Delivery team working on Cloud Native applications helps enable and transform Freddie Mac's business. We provide systems and technology that benefit the enterprise, customers, and our business partners.

Your Impact SEC:

You will be working with the product teams and the product owners through the modernization, driving adoption of modern software engineering and delivery practices (Real Agile, TDD, ATDD, Stateless Design, Microservices, Containerization, etc.), while providing continuous business value to customers.Below are the key functions for this role.

Technical Leadership

Partner with Dev leads to define technical solutions to complex business use cases that align with target state architecture and conforms with corporate standard processes.

Should be able to apply strong business knowledge and understanding of the business objective when selecting the optimal technical approach

Should be  cross-functional team member; codes, writes, performs automated tests

Train, mentor and provide thought leadership to junior and mid-level developers

Development & Execution

Work within a product team demonstrating the Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe)

Analyze the user stories and come-up with design options that align with the technical roadmap and build proof of concepts as needed

Design and develop Micro Services based solutions using Java & Spring Boot frameworks; Mongo DB; Selenium and Cucumber for test automation

Assess opportunities for application & process improvements, optimizations & performance tuning

Produce high quality design artifacts that cover all aspects of sound architecture

Develop within a Cloud-based architecture - Amazon Web Services (AWS) - Goldfield

DevOps

Adopt the CI/CD process within the team and continue to enable improve it

Qualifications for SEC:

• Bachelor’s/Master’s Degree with Major in Computer Science/Engineering or equivalent

• Minimum of 8 years of experience in software development;8 years of relevant experience and specialized training or certification in the following technologies: J2EE, Java, Web Development and SQL; Groovy a plus;

• Experience in Micro-services and Docker Containers Platforms using OpenShift and Kubernetes.

• Extensible knowledge on Spring-Boot, Spring Integration Java Technologies.

• Experience/Knowledge on MongoDB, DB2, SQL Server, PostgreSQL Databases.

• High level of exposure to testing frameworks like Junit & Cucumber & Front-end UI development frameworks like Angular and REACT JS is must

• Experience in code delivery pipelines and adept in building Build and Deployment tools using Maven, Gradle, ANSIBLE and Jenkins

• Experience with REST based Web services

• Strong SQL skills is a must

• Modern Tools:,Jenkins, Cucumber/Specflow, Atlassian Suite (Bamboo, Jira, Bitbucket), Git

• DBs: DB2, PostgreSQL,

• Cloud: AWS

• Knowledge or experience in Jira, Confluence and Bitbucket.

• Experience working in Scaled Agile, Modern Delivery experience is a plus.

• Significant contributor to the team, whose code follows latest coding practices and Freddie Mac standards.

• Author, writing the unit, integration tests and functional automation.

• Provide production support – able to collaborate with Business and Technical teams to debug the issue

• Challenge ideas and opinions to avoid pitfalls and inefficient solutions.

• Takes the lead on ensuring that the code is of high quality; constantly challenges ideas and opinions to avoid pitfalls and inefficient solutions.

• Demonstrates innovation when developing and designing the business logic.

• Demonstrates a collaboration approach while working with others to build the business logic and backend systems

Keys to Success in this Role:

• Strong consultation and communication skills

• Proactive in identifying existing issues and providing an alternate solution

• Curiosity to learn about new trends related to tools and technology

• Seek and Embrace Change – Continuously improve work processes rather than accepting status quo

• Flexible to work with different teams across organization

• Flexible to support weekend works.

• Takes accountability, sets expectations, and delivers high quality technical solutions within agreed upon level of effort.

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

We consider all applicants for all positions without regard to gender, race, color, religion, national origin, age, marital status, veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity/expression, physical and mental disability, pregnancy, ethnicity, genetic information or any other protected categories under applicable federal, state or local laws. We will ensure that individuals 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.

A safe and secure environment is critical to Freddie Mac’s business. This includes employee commitment to our acceptable use policy, applying a vigilance-first approach to work, supporting regulatory mandates, and using best practices to protect Freddie Mac from potential threats and risk. Employees exercise this responsibility by executing against policies and procedures and adhering to privacy & security obligations as required via training programs.

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 $127,000 - $191,000 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.