Techology Strategy Senior Tech Lead

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Position Overview

Are you a self-starter with a passion for technology resiliency? Do you thrive applying your critical thinking skills to tackle complex problems? Freddie Mac's Operational Resilience Team protects corporate assets from significant business interruptions by optimizing risk management and building operational and technical resiliency. This Senior Tech Lead will work with the Vice President of Enterprise Operational Resilience, business, and technology teams to provide analysis, assessment, advisory, direction, and support to enhance and sustain the firm's preparedness and resilience posture. This individual will assess, and report on Technology Environments, Recovery Strategies, Disaster Recovery, and Continuity exercises and tests. Apply now and learn why there’s #MoreAtFreddieMac!

Our Impact:

Strengthen the firm's overall resiliency by evaluating, documenting, and testing enterprise operational and technology resiliency capabilities and establishing a stable and sound platform to minimize disruptions to business operations.

Your Impact:

· Evaluate current technology recovery capabilities and develop enhancement strategies with evolving business and technology needs

· Partner with disaster recovery plan owners and engineering teams to manage and enhance recovery solutions

· Develop and maintain resiliency scenarios to understand required capabilities to sustain business operations during disruptions

· Work with engineering teams to adapt and align to recovery requirements

· Represent technical resiliency as subject matter expert in governance forums including Enterprise Impact Analysis, BTO Deep Dives, Execution Board

· Define, manage and assess resiliency non-functional requirements and directives

· Partner with three lines of defense and support vendor assessment

Qualifications:

· Bachelor’s or master’s degree in computer science, engineering, or related field.

· 10+ years of experience working with or within a technology disaster recovery, business resiliency, or operational resiliency environment

· Understanding of technological environments - legacy and cloud; experience with technology resilience, incident management, problem management is a plus

· Experience with software tools related to operational resilience, incident management, or disaster recovery preferred

· Understanding of out-of-region failover/back, disaster recovery planning, exercises, and testing activities preferred

Keys to Success in this Role:

· Build and maintain positive relationships across business, technical, and non-technical teams

· Strong communication skills; oral, written, and presentation skills to broad audiences

· Teamwork across multi-disciplinary and multi-functional areas

· Critical thinking and the ability to connect the dots

· A willingness to focus and drive toward finding the optimal and acceptable solution

Current Freddie Mac employees please apply through the internal career site.

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