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Position Overview: Our Development Factory Group is a fast-paced team that interacts with all areas of Freddie Mac's business, providing solid experience and knowledge across the IT spectrum. We are searching to add a dedicated IT Development Technical Lead to the team! This role will own full end-to-end delivery of software products and will be responsible for guiding team members of varying professional levels.
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Our Impact: The Development Factory, within the Enterprise Operations and Technology Division, helps provide efficient and rapid delivery of applications across the enterprise. Our team is made up of hardworking individuals who thrive in an exciting work environment and enjoy utilizing their problem-solving skills. We promote a more collaborative and productive work environment by bringing development, testing and operations together. It is the combination of skills, process, practices, and tools that enhances our ability to deliver services at large scale with high velocity and reliability.
Your Impact: As a Technical Lead you will lead on projects, providing technical guidance and oversight to the project execution team by ensuring alignment between project activities and accepted scope, negotiate with the business, vendors and other partners on changes to scope. The work includes leading a dynamic team to remediate applications built on legacy technologies and address security vulnerabilities, provide direction and mentorship, proactively advising on quality and resolving complex technical challenges while contributing to design and code reviews. Also, you will collaborate with IT teams and business partners to identify innovative solutions, influence technology decisions, and drive technical strategies in alignment with architectural roadmaps, define remediations and test strategies, and help maintain a knowledge database by documenting lessons learned.
Qualifications: - Bachelor's degree in computer science or engineering or equivalent experience; advanced degree preferred
- 8+ years of IT industry experience within a matrixed organization
- 4+ years proven experience within technical leadership
- Hands-on experience with Java development background including on design, optimizations & performance tuning
- Middleware experience with WebLogic (preferred), Apache, Spring Boot, etc.
- Experience with Linux/UNIX environment and Scripting languages such as UNIX Shell
- Experience with CICD pipeline integration tools (Jenkins, GIT, Bitbucket, Artifactory, etc.) and handling automation
- Relational databases experience (SQL (preferred), Sybase, DB2, Oracle, PostgreSQL)
- Excellent understanding of typical multi-tier architectures: web servers, caching, application servers, & load balancers
- Information and application security including LDAP, certificates, public key encryption, SSH, access credentials, etc.
Keys to Success in this Role: - Good interpersonal, relationship building and team working skills
- Shown ability to communicate optimally with various teams, both business and technical, to achieve goals
- Ability to communicate clearly, efficiently, persuasively
- Motivated to learn new technologies and identify process improvements and efficiencies
- Strong verbal and written communication skills
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 $138,000 - $206,000 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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