I&CM BTO Program Management Tech Lead (Hybrid - 3 Days in Office)

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

Position Overview:

The Product and Program Manager will join the I&CM Business Technology Office's Strategic Initiatives and Transformations team. This position offers a chance to influence critical business functions and drive technological advancements within Freddie Mac’s I&CM division.

 This is an individual contributor role involved in the coordinating I&CM of software solutions for pre-trade and post-trade analytics for I&CM Trading desks and I&CM and other divisional Retained Portfolio Management and Analytics teams.

Our Impact:

• Freddie Mac, as mandated by Congress, aims to provide liquidity, stability, and affordability to the U.S. housing market. We help lenders, communities, and families understand sustainable homeownership.

• The I&CM division handles liquidity, financing, credit risk transfer, and hedging transactions, and manages Freddie Mac’s portfolios of loans, securities, and derivatives.

• The I&CM Business Technology Office (BTO) is responsible for applications supporting pre-trade and post-trade data and analytics, what-if-scenario-analysis, transactions, operations cash and liquidity management; financial, risk management, and regulatory reporting.

Your Impact:

• Collaborate with Trade Capture, Data Services, and Pricing and Analytics teams to support integrated and purpose driven trading platform and services.

• Perform requirements analysis, individually or collaboratively, translating them into detailed specifications and/or proof-of-concept code.

• Manage a central book-of-work for applications and services using agile practices, while advocating for and implementing high quality workflow and software design and controls and other risk mitigation principles.

• Work with product and program managers, product owners and business stakeholders to support integration and coordination of cross functional deliverables.

• Build and maintain positive relationships with business stakeholders, technology partners, managing resource competition or constraints through transparency to all affected parties.

• Communicate program updates to users and senior management effectively.

• Support technology risk and control processes, contributor to audit and regulatory engagement and remediation, as needed.

• Develop sustainable operating models between business functions and technology.

Qualifications:

• 8-10 years in Financial Services technology; 5+ years in the mortgage market preferred.

• Proven success leading and implementing a broad range of strategic and tactical initiatives.

• Excellent presentation, written, and oral communication skills.

• Willingness to travel.

• Strong quantitative, analytic, product management and program management skills.

• Experience supporting pre-trade analytics for mortgage markets and interest rate derivatives hedging required, previous coverage of municipal and credit index products preferred.

• Experience supporting position management and retained portfolios required, support of trade capture, settlement and delivery is preferred.

• Experience in workflow/process re-engineering, technology re-platforming and/or organization overhauls, including rationalizing of human and technology resources.

• College degree or equivalent experience; advanced degree preferred.

Keys to Success in this Role:

• Empathetic to business users, understanding both business and technology implications of requirements.

• Investment in understanding the business functions, software and data footprint, end-to-end processes and risk and control frameworks.

•  Ability to react to, if not anticipate, business activity levels and implications engagement and other business needs of Technology teams.

• Must be able to plan, coordinate with excellent organizational skills to produce timely results.

• Knowledge of fixed income products, especially mortgages and derivatives.

• Experience supporting financial services domains such as Trading, Finance and Accounting, Middle Office/Trade Support, and Risk Management of Credit, Market, or Liquidity Risk, and Asset Liability Management.

• Experience supporting specialized financial services technology domains, such as quantitative models; analytics, scenario analysis, and stress testing frameworks; data science or data development; or use