Principal Infrastructure Architect

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.

Position Overview:

The Freddie Mac Infrastructure Architecture team is seeking a Senior Technical Lead to provide leadership and oversight associated with infrastructure architecture in partnership with engineering and operations!

Our Impact:

• Design and implement comprehensive IT infrastructure architectures that strictly meet business requirements.
• Develop and maintain technical roadmaps to guide our future initiatives.
• Ensure the security, compliance, and governance of our infrastructure architectures.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to determine and prioritize infrastructure projects.
• Conduct research to stay up-to-date on emerging trends and technologies.
• Provide technical leadership and mentorship to our teams.
• Develop and maintain detailed documentation of infrastructure designs, configurations, and procedures.

Your Impact:

• Collaborate with other Infrastructure Architects to ensure alignment with the strategic vision, roadmap, principles, and guidelines of Freddie Mac, enabling software engineering teams and solution architects to deliver on business outcomes.
• Define and implement reference architecture patterns for development teams.
• Lead the transformation into Agile Architecture and align with the Modern Delivery methodology within Freddie Mac.

Qualifications:

• Undergraduate degree or equivalent experience required; Advanced degree preferred.
• 10+ years of experience in infrastructure architecture, design, and implementation for a financial services organization.
• 3+ years of relevant large-scale enterprise transformation experience in architecture preferred.
• Prior experience in the primary or secondary mortgage industry is desirable.
• Strong understanding of network architecture, protocols, and security (TCP/IP, DNS, DHCP).
• Experience with storage systems (SAN, NAS) and backup/recovery solutions.
• Deep knowledge of various enterprise-level platforms widely used in the industry.
• Strong knowledge of cloud computing platforms (AWS, Azure).
• Strong experience with virtualization technologies (VMware).
• Strong experience with containerization technologies (Docker) and orchestration tools (Kubernetes).
• Tech Certifications desirable (AWS, Azure, CNCF, TOGAF, etc.).
• Hands-on and architectural experience with these is required in this role.
• Experience with AI/ML and GenAI Basics.

Keys to Success in This Role:

• Highly motivated and upbeat self-starter with strong organizational and time management skills.
• Proven experience operating at high standards of quality and accuracy within a fast-paced, changing environment.
• Strong communication, leadership, and relationship management skills to collaborate with and influence important collaborators.
• Technical and architectural leadership with knowledge of both legacy and modern cloud-based distributed systems.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills, with the ability to succinctly present complex subject matter, specifically translating technology problems/solutions to business partners.

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.

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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 $179,000 - $269,000 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.