Risk & Control Specialist

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McLean, VA, USA
In-Office
100K-150K Annually
Financial Services
The Role

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:

At Freddie Mac, you will do important work to build a better housing finance system and you will be part of a team helping to make homeownership and rental housing more accessible and affordable across the nation!

We are seeking a top-notch person to join the Governance workstream within Delivery Methodology.  Interested? Read on! You will be responsible for working directly with a team enterprise wide to implement the Freddie Mac Agile Methodology. This position requires you have hands-on experience with Agile methods, including Scrum and Kanban, understanding of SDLC risks and controls and a passion for process improvement.

Our Impact:

Delivery Methodology manages the software delivery methodologies for the firm (excluding Investments & Capital Markets). We support enterprise-wide technology initiatives using influence over authority and provide thought leadership for our key partners to continue improving and maturing. Using a customer and product-centric mindset, Delivery Methodology provides a framework and guidance across various business divisions to create consistency and continuity across the firm.

Your Impact:

  • Support the Governance workstream within Modern Delivery Office to manage all SDLC controls associated with Modern Delivery methodology
  • Remediate all identified risks and issues within agreed upon timeline
  • Conduct quarterly Governance compliance review for IDM & Modern Delivery methodologies
  • Ensure teams understand and adhere to SDLC controls
  • Identify opportunities to optimize SDLC controls and lead the effort to make improvements (including rolling out changes to teams)
  • Act as the point-of-contact for any testing or auditing done by outside teams
  • Coordinate with product teams to share documentation, when needed
  • Influence process improvements that benefit product teams
  • Identify processes that cause toil for product teams and have opportunity for review/improvement
  • Work with leaders in other areas to drive improvements that will lessen toil for product teams
  • Support the change management aspects process improvements/changes
  • Communicate changes with teams to ensure new process changes are understood and integrated

Qualifications:

  • 10 years of demonstrated relevant experience in SDLC governance, agile and/or program management
  • Bachelor's degree in relevant field or equivalent experience
  • Minimum of Certified Scrum Master (CSM) or Agile Certified Scrum Master (PMI-ACP) required
  • 8+ years of direct experience in one or more aspects of Information Technology (Software design/ development, IT Architecture, or other related IT areas)
  • 8+ years of explicit experience as an Agile Scrum Master of an Agile delivery team, preferably in a variety of situations including a large enterprise, a scaled environment, and a matrixed organization
  • Effective facilitation skills
  • Effective coaching and mentoring skills
  • Ability to thrive in a highly ambiguous, fast paced environment where priorities shift rapidly
  • Strong problem-solving skills and ability to determine solutions that help everyone win
  • Effective influence, collaboration, and negotiation skills
  • Exceptional verbal and written communication skills
  • Hands-on Atlassian tool experience (Jira, Confluence) preferred.
  • Ability to break down sophisticated technology concepts and present to senior leadership

Keys to Success in this Role:

  • Hardworking and take pride in owning your work
  • Ability to understand and communicate well with a passion to get the job done
  • Open minded to embrace new process, technologies, and culture
  • Ready to take on any kind of work to help drive things forward
  • Innovative in providing solutions
  • Comfortable navigating difficult conversations

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.

Notice to External Search Firms: Freddie Mac partners with BountyJobs for contingency search business through outside firms. Resumes received outside the BountyJobs system will be considered unsolicited and Freddie Mac will not be obligated to pay a placement fee. If interested in learning more, please visit www.BountyJobs.com and register with our referral code: MAC.

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 $100,000 - $150,000 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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The Company
HQ: McLean, VA
9,809 Employees
Year Founded: 1970

What We Do

Freddie Mac is serving America’s homebuyers, homeowners and renters by financing the creation and preservation of more affordable homeownership and rental opportunities, providing liquidity, stability and affordability to the housing market. We are Making Home Possible for families across the nation.

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