Principal Technical Architect (Flexible Hybrid)

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

As a valued contributor to our team, you will solve for complex or unusual business problems by designing, producing, testing, or implementing software, technology, or processes, as well as create and maintain IT architecture, large scale data stores, and cloud-based systems.

THE IMPACT YOU WILL MAKE
The SF Technology - Software Engineering - Principal 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:

• The ideal candidate will have the ability to influence stakeholders and executive leadership on key architecture work you would help define across the Single Family Technology team. As an individual contributor, you will solve problems through innovation and applying cutting-edge tools and technologies such as Microservices, an API ecosystem, Security Architecture constraints, and more to build robust application solutions.
• Serve as a technical expert to define and maintain the application architectural frameworks/patterns, processes, standards, and guidelines related to systems, business, or data architecture. Align approach with broader architecture vision.
• Lead, manage, and oversee projects, initiatives, and daily operations related to: assessing business and technology processes and functional needs for the enterprise; designing and implementing the optimal mix of system components to support the functional needs; managing the system development/enhancement lifecycle from business and systems requirements analysis through development; testing, quality assurance, post-deployment support, managing a portfolio of internal controls around business processes, systems, and data.
• Lead GenAI adoption and related POC efforts.
• Lead, and oversee the project management lifecycle from conception through completion that includes assessing business requirements, scoping, and planning projects and initiatives, budgeting, forecasting, tracking, and reporting project status, managing deliverables, and assessing customer satisfaction.
• Responsible for the development of best practices and guidelines for existing or new technologies within responsible area(s).
• Responsible for establishing and maintaining portfolio-level target state architecture and roadmaps.
• Researches and selects vendors regarding the development of technical solutions, as needed, in conjunction with executive management.
• Reports to executive management on major accomplishments, issues, and concerns.
• Represent the unit as an expert or resource to cross-functional project or coordinating teams and report to senior management on the unit's production, activities, and efforts.
• Plan, document, and manage the performance of subordinate managers and/or staff. Conduct talent management activities including mentoring, training, or providing technical growth opportunities.

Qualifications

THE EXPERIENCE YOU BRING TO THE TEAM

Minimum Required Experiences

• 8+ years of enterprise experience in software engineering and application architecture.
• Demonstrated professional competence in the principles and practices of application architectures.
• Strong understanding of application development technologies.
• Extensive experience with AWS Cloud technologies, including architecting and operating solutions built on AWS.
• Experience with AWS Cloud technologies such as AWS Public Cloud and migrating/transforming legacy applications to AWS Cloud.
• Strong understanding of AWS Cloud technologies, including Security Constraints, Resiliency, High-Availability, Fault Tolerance, and Scalability in the context of AWS Cloud.
• Experience with architecting and designing for Security Constraints, Resiliency, High-Availability, Fault Tolerance, and Scalability in the context of application architecture.
• Experience assessing, planning, designing, and transforming legacy applications.
• Understanding and experience with Microservices-based architecture.
• Demonstrated technical knowledge of API ecosystems, CI/CD and DevOps principles, and design thinking.
• Excellent analytical, strategic conceptual thinking, and consulting skills.
• Excellent oral and written communication skills, including the ability to explain technology co