Full Stack Software Engineering Technical Lead (CI/CD Platform)

Freddie Mac•McLean, VA

About The Position

Freddie Mac's Single Family Acquisitions PDM Platform Team is seeking a Full Stack Software Engineering Technical Lead to focus on the design and delivery of a CI/CD platform. This role will enable business innovation by delivering software faster and more efficiently through predictive methodology, automated impact assessments, automated testing, automated cloud infrastructure provisioning, and automated deployment. The position involves designing and developing the PDM Portal UI and services, developing advanced cloud infrastructure patterns, ensuring solution architecture aligns with business objectives and Freddie Mac's standards, and building tooling and services to simplify infrastructure consumption.

Requirements

8-10 years of hands-on experience in application solution architecture applied to enterprise systems.
8 + years of hand-on experience in languages and frameworks including Java, Angular, and Spring Boot.
Strong Python development skills or equivalent, including: Building CLIs, automation scripts, and service backends (e.g., FastAPI), Packaging and dependency management (pip/Poetry), virtual environments, Testing frameworks (pytest), coverage, and mocking, Working with AWS SDKs (boto3), file storage (S3) and data services (DynamoDB/RDS).
3+ years of backend service development, including RESTful API design and implementation.
Experience with CI/CD platforms and related technologies.
Exposure working with AWS services like EC2, S3, EKS, Lambda, API Gateway, etc.
Advanced knowledge of AWS cloud infrastructure design and resiliency patterns (multi‑AZ, auto‑scaling, service quotas, failure domains).
Desire to automate, standardize, and scale consumption for end users; hands‑on with CI/CD (Jenkins), containerization (Docker), and Kubernetes operators/controllers.
Hands-on experience with multiple technologies like APIs, Microservices, Event Streaming, Logging & Monitoring, Databases (SQL, NOSQL), Containers, Serverless Frameworks, DevOps, etc.
Bachelor’s degree in computer science or equivalent experience required.

Nice To Haves

Advanced studies/degree preferred.

Responsibilities

Design and develop the PDM Portal UI and services.
Develop advanced cloud infrastructure patterns using Terraform, Helm Charts, and/or CloudFormation.
Ensure solution architecture aligns with business objectives, roadmaps, and strategic solutions, as well as Freddie Mac’s architecture principles and standards.
Define and compare solutions to determine the optimal solutions for business needs.
Design reference application architectures (e.g., microservices, event‑driven, serverless) and create architecture decision records (ADRs) to document trade‑offs and standards for platform consumers.
Build tooling and services (CLIs, automation scripts, service scaffolds, and lightweight APIs) that simplify infrastructure consumption and bootstrap app teams.
Develop templates for cloud infrastructure that application teams can consume, reducing the depth of IaC expertise required for safe automation.
Define and champion design for platform components and reference apps to ensure consistency, resiliency, and testability.
Establish guardrails and golden paths for observability, secrets management, configuration, and deployment across multiple services.
Test designed components for production usage at scale (functional, performance, resiliency, and security testing).
Ensure that delivered capabilities align with business objectives; measure adoption and developer experience outcomes.
Partner with internal collaborators and develop strong stakeholder relationships across architecture, security, networking, platform, and application teams.