Agile Development Technical Lead (Appian Enterprise Business Process Management )

Freddie Mac•McLean, VA

5d•$154,000 - $230,000

About The Position

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. Position Overview: If you are a confident and self-motivated individual with a willingness to learn and adapt in a team environment, we are your next destination employer! Apply to join our Business Process Management (BPM) Center of Excellence IT team at Freddie Mac to lead design, development, maintenance, and support for our applications. In this role, you will be responsible for overall project delivery and operations. You will provide technical leadership and direction to a team of developers, while being very hands on at the same time. Our Impact: We deliver automation solutions by building and enhancing software applications using Business Process Management and Low Code Application Platforms required for Internal Audit, Legal and various other divisions at Freddie Mac. Partner with Product and Business team members to ensure high quality product is developed and released into production. Work closely with Architecture, Stakeholders, Operations Partners, and Business Product teams to specify and refine solutions and practices. Evolve a DevOps culture to provide high quality, continuous operations, and ongoing support ensuring critical service level, customer requirements and financial objectives. Your Impact: Serve as the BPM expert in the tool (Appian) setup/configuration/design, process and workflow usage, enterprise development, standards and best practices usage, training and delivery Act as a BPM technology lead for the project teams to address systems, software integration and compatibility issues especially in a multi-tenant environment, inclusive of providing an integrated solution covering custom applications, other packages, infrastructure aspects and progressing to cloud applications Analyze and support system requirements and functional specification to make design decisions, including independent judgment on any changes, enhancements, resolutions to roadblocks and identified defects Deliver and recommend BPM solutions that adopt the enterprise BPM and SOA architectures, patterns, policies and standards, guidelines and principles, procedures, and methodology, while working closely with the Architects to define/refine as BPM maturity progresses Build BPM reference implementations and integrations with other patterns, components and systems while working with the Solution Architects and other Technical Leads Leverage a collaboration technique for identifying reuse opportunities with other members of the team and execute on reuse objectives Design and implement complex enterprise integrations with industry standard technologies such as Databases, Active Directory, Security/Web APIs, Ping, Snowflake, Dremio and other internal systems in the enterprise Java based plug-ins development Conduct technical assessments and detailed design reviews, validating that the design follows the approved architecture Play a major role in evolving the BPM Center of Excellence Assist in furthering the BPM enablement efforts including the following and championing the BPM best practices for new applications Socialize BPM concepts within the Business Users/Stakeholders including conducting demos on the Enterprise Platform (Appian)

Requirements

8-10+ years’ related work experience in Information Technology
5+ years of strong experience in design and implementation of Business Process Management based solutions is a must have; Having this with Appian BPM software is a plus
Bachelor’s degree in computer science, information technology, related field or equivalent work experience
5+ years of strong Java, J2EE experience
3+ years’ experience in Angular, Java scripts, ansible
Strong working knowledge on Kubernetes and Cloud
Exposure to infrastructure, network and enterprise scale environments
Practical experience designing and building enterprise and/or distributed systems
Demonstrated strong knowledge of architectural principles and the designv implementation and operations of enterprise technology solutions.

Nice To Haves

Experience in business process modeling as it integrates with Appian BPM
Experience with systems and software architecture, and both SaaS and on-premises software delivery models
Knowledge of information technology frameworks and methodologies, including Reference Architectures and Architecture Patterns
Strong understanding and hands-on experience with Agile software development methodologies
Experience in the financial services industry
Demonstrated strong cross organization communication skills with both business and technical stakeholders to effectively communicate business benefits and influence technical decisions
Proven ability to lead or team with a cross-functional developers/designers, and operations stakeholders to deliver product and project deliverables
Proven ability to analytically address complex problems, process critical data, establish facts, and draw quality conclusions
Ability to work well under pressure, some tight deadlines and with ambiguity on some projects

Responsibilities

Serve as the BPM expert in the tool (Appian) setup/configuration/design, process and workflow usage, enterprise development, standards and best practices usage, training and delivery
Act as a BPM technology lead for the project teams to address systems, software integration and compatibility issues especially in a multi-tenant environment, inclusive of providing an integrated solution covering custom applications, other packages, infrastructure aspects and progressing to cloud applications
Analyze and support system requirements and functional specification to make design decisions, including independent judgment on any changes, enhancements, resolutions to roadblocks and identified defects
Deliver and recommend BPM solutions that adopt the enterprise BPM and SOA architectures, patterns, policies and standards, guidelines and principles, procedures, and methodology, while working closely with the Architects to define/refine as BPM maturity progresses
Build BPM reference implementations and integrations with other patterns, components and systems while working with the Solution Architects and other Technical Leads
Leverage a collaboration technique for identifying reuse opportunities with other members of the team and execute on reuse objectives
Design and implement complex enterprise integrations with industry standard technologies such as Databases, Active Directory, Security/Web APIs, Ping, Snowflake, Dremio and other internal systems in the enterprise Java based plug-ins development
Conduct technical assessments and detailed design reviews, validating that the design follows the approved architecture
Play a major role in evolving the BPM Center of Excellence
Assist in furthering the BPM enablement efforts including the following and championing the BPM best practices for new applications
Socialize BPM concepts within the Business Users/Stakeholders including conducting demos on the Enterprise Platform (Appian)