Development Senior Technical Lead

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.

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. 

Position Overview

Are you a transformation champion? Are you looking for a career that allows you to work with the latest and greatest technologies? Do you have demonstrable record of enabling enterprise change through architectural leadership?

The Freddie Mac Enterprise Business Technology Organization (BTO) is seeking a highly skilled and experienced Development, Senior Technical Lead who will be responsible for leading the design, development and implementation of various Corporate Finance technologies and solutions.

The candidate is expected to have strong technical skills in engineering, integration, and demonstrated experience implementing highly scalable solutions. The candidate must also have experience with vendor products and 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

The Enterprise BTO organization enables business operational excellence through the flexible use of technology. The department provides ​IT strategic services (software development, enhancements, and production support) to support the needs of the Enterprise groups - External Relations and Corporate Communications, Finance, Human Resources, Internal Audit, Legal, Operational Resilience, and Regulatory Affairs.   

This role will be focused within Finance and often have intersections with the other above listed business lines.

• Delivery of Finance solutions to optimally perform cost allocations, enable self-service reporting, and streamlined financial planning, forecasting and reporting.

• Delivery of integrations between Finance systems and other systems

• Collaboration with other technology teams to advance our technical capabilities, automate and optimize processes to meet business challenges

Your Impact

• Be an active member of multiple high-performing teams.

• Provide technical leadership and identify trends, patterns, and insights that can advise business decisions and strategies.

• Lead development teams to craft, develop, and implement solutions that meet business needs. Ensure solutions align with business objectives and deliver measurable outcomes.

• Stay up to date with industry/enterprise standards, latest technologies and general principles, and techniques.

• Lead the creation of and maintenance of delivery pipelines for newly created services/solutions.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree or equivalent experience; advanced studies/degree preferred. Typically, has at least 10 years+ of related experience.

• 10+ years of experience with SQL and Relational Databases- PostgreSQL and SQL Server.

• Experience with cloud computing platforms, such as AWS.

• Experience with Oracle EPM, Workday Financials, Workiva, and related vendor products/packages such as Apptio, ServiceNow would be nice to have.

• Strong Front and Back End Development Skills: Python, Java full stack, Angular, Unix shell scripting.

• Strong understanding of relational databases, SQL, and data modeling.

• Solid understanding of Information and application security including LDAP, certificates, public key encryption, SSH, access credentials, etc.

• A background or equivalent knowledge in Finance, preferably financial accounting and associated Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP).

Keys to Success

• Ability to work with multiple technologies and pioneer new solutions.

• Strong verbal and written communication skills.

• Communicate effectively within a matrixed organization.

• Motivated to learn new technologies and identify process improvements and efficiencies.

• Steadfast pursuit of continuous improvement opportunities.

• Provide mentorship to development team members and mentor junior s