Senior Tech Lead, Application Services

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:

We are seeking an expert Engineering Senior Technical Lead to join our application services team. This person’s primary responsibility will be to lead design and implementation activities for application services (middleware engineering) services. The Technical Lead will join a diverse multi-functional team to collaborate on building the service platform (in on-premise and AWS cloud) to enable Freddie Mac applications team to host/migrate business applications.

The candidate is expected to have strong technical skills in engineering and supporting MW technologies as well as automation skills to develop highly scalable solutions at enterprise scale. The candidate should be able to learn/adapt new tools/technologies and implement them for enterprise adoption in accordance with Freddie Mac operational and security standards.

Our Impact:

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. Continue your career journey where your work contributes to a greater purpose. 

Your Impact:

• Collaborate on projects with architecture, strategy and Information security teams to design and implement application services in alignment with application patterns

• Business Communication - engage with internal teams, project teams and business areas to discuss issues and document or explain technical solutions in a simplified meaningful way

• Participate in design reviews of architecture & design patterns for service/application deployment on-premise and cloud (AWS)

• Collaborate with core services such as (Database, OS engineering etc) leads to build-out the components for application services

• Deliver and maintain standard operating procedures and assist in solving issues

• Participate in on-call activities as needed for major incident resolution and problem management

• Mentor junior members in the operations team and engineering teams

• Help coordinate project deployments with other engineers and make schedule recommendation

Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s Degree in Information Technology, Engineering, Computer Science, related field or equivalent experience; advanced studies/degree preferred

• 10 + years of experience in Information technology in designing, engineering and managing enterprise grade solutions for middleware technologies

• Hands on experience in applications server technologies ( WebLogic, TomEE), messaging / broker technologies (MQ, Kafka), API and business process management technologies (Apigee, Appian) is a must

• Strong application architecture as well as application development background along with at least 2-3 years of experience with engineering and supporting containerization technology (Openshift, Kubernetes, AWS(ECS/EKS) etc.) is preferred

• Experience with Ansible, Terraform and other configuration management tools

• Experience with scripting tools (Python, Perl, Shell scripting etc.) to automate routine operation tasks

• Documentation of Engineering Solutions and Designs

Keys to Success in this Role:

• Focus on automation.

• Detail oriented and demonstrate personal accountability

• Innovative in providing solutions, likes to take on challenges with calculated risk

• Quick learner of new technologies and tools

• Works autonomously. Able to provide technical guidance to the team

• Good communication and great teammate

• Strong written and oral communications skills

• Proactive in nature with customer satisfaction as primary goal

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 $162,000 - $242,000 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.