Enterprise Architecture - Architecture - Senior Director

Company Description

At Fannie Mae, futures are made. The inspiring work we do helps make a home a possibility for millions of homeowners and renters. Every day offers compelling opportunities to use tech to tackle housing’s biggest challenges and impact the future of the industry. You’ll be a part of an expert team thriving in an energizing, flexible environment. Here, you will grow your career and help create access to fair, affordable housing finance.
 

Job Description

Are you interested in help the future of Housing? 

In this compelling leadership position, you will plan and direct the work of a unit whose team design and implement components of technological structures, create solutions with a process-driven view, and maintain and/or update existing structures. In this role, you will coordinate business unit operational activities through the support of your team.

THE IMPACT YOU WILL MAKE
The Enterprise Architecture - Architecture - Senior Director role will offer you the flexibility to make each day your own, while working alongside people who care so that you can deliver on the following responsibilities:

• Determine diverse and complex customer group needs by applying understanding of important strategic issues to the function/initiative.
• Plan and direct the work of multiple teams in translating functional requirements into technical solutions to meet needs.
• Oversee existing structures, as well as the implementation and ongoing monitoring of governance for their use according to requirements.
• Direct modeling, analysis, and planning to drive functional strategy execution or define the approach toward complex or unusual business problems. Expert understanding of Modern Architectures with Cloud Architectures and Infrastructures
• Work with business & product stakeholders to define business architecture & strategy for execution
• Define tech infrastructure and stack for app/dev teams

Qualifications

THE EXPERIENCE YOU BRING TO THE TEAM

• Deep expertise in Capital Markets or Finance/Treasury domains, or previous experience in financial services and/or secondary mortgage market
• Accountable for proactively leading and supporting Enterprise Architecture activities that build our future technology architecture within the aligned business unit(s)
• Define the principles, guidelines, standards, and solution patterns to ensure solution decisions are aligned with the enterprise's future-state architecture vision.
• Work closely with business portfolios, Infrastructure, and Data functions to ensure alignment of expectations and drive execution.
• Delivers innovative architectural initiatives that drive revenue, increase competitiveness, and improve efficiency in line with business strategy
• Knowledge of and experience in application architectural frameworks, blueprints, patterns and prescriptive architectures and applying these to enterprise class architectures
• Ability to compare and contrast alternative architectures and is able to provide evidence for a fact-based decision on the best direction for the engineering systems roadmap taking account of the corporate strategy & enterprise architectural roadmaps
• Brings an entrepreneurial spirit and is hands-on
• Experience in strong technical knowledge and experience in areas such as cloud computing, data analytics, AI/ML and network infrastructure.
• Should be able to communicate effectively with both technical and non-technical stakeholders, including executives, business leaders, and other members of the organization.
• Ensure in person employee engagement by motivating team, running personalized development programs, and creating an empowering culture aligned with our values
• Skilled in cloud technologies and cloud computing and experience with performing large scale data migrations to cloud using cloud native services
• Overall accountability of the IT Architecture capability ensuring that the company has the optimal level of Architecture capability and talent, driving upskilling, cross-skilling and overall development of talent keeping them relevant and aligned with Technology evolution of our technology stack and infrastructure

Preferred skills

• Knowledge of Mortgage industry business process

• 4+ years of Cloud Architecture experience preferred

• Excellent presentation and communication skills

Additional Information

The future is what you make it to be. Discover compelling opportunities at careers.fanniemae.com.

Fannie Mae is an Equal Opportunity Employer, which means we are committed to fostering a diverse and inclusive workplace. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without