Lead Python & AWS Developer

Fannie Mae • Reston, VA

1d • $141,000 - $184,000 • Hybrid

About The Position

Playing an essential role in the U.S. economy, Fannie Mae is foundational to housing finance. Here, your expertise can help fuel purpose-driven innovation that expands access to homeownership and affordable rental housing across the country. Join Fannie Mae to grow your career and help people find a place to call home. As a valued colleague on our team, you will provide expert advice to and guide the team in building, developing, or designing functionality for a product, as well as guide and ensure the ongoing implementation, enhancement, or maintenance of existing products. The Lead Python & AWS Developer 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:

Requirements

• 4 years of development experience in JavaScript, Python, Java, and modern web technologies
• Experience with AI‑assisted development tools and practices
• Strong Software Development background
• Experience developing solutions in the AWS cloud.
• Experience with database development (Oracle, MySQL, Sybase)
• Experience developing web‑service integrations (SOAP/RESTful)

Nice To Haves

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, engineering, or a related field.
• 10+ years of software development experience.
• 2+ years of ServiceNow development and support experience.
• Developer certifications in ServiceNow and AWS.
• Strong design, development, testing, and support experience, preferably with ServiceNow.
• Experience with HTML and CSS.
• Project management and team leadership skills.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills.
• Self‑driven individual with the ability to take initiative, demonstrate accountability, and assume responsibility.
• Ability to work independently with minimal guidance or supervision.
• Comfortable working in a fast‑paced, Agile-based team environment.
• Ability to work under tight deadlines.
• Ability to learn quickly and master new technical and business areas.
• Self-driven individual with ability to take initiative, demonstrate accountability, and assume responsibility
• Ability to operate and work independently with minimal guidance and supervision
• Comfortable working in a fast-paced Agile-based team development environment
• Ability to work under tight deadlines
• Able to learn quickly and master new technical and business areas

Responsibilities

• Lead end to end design, development, testing, and operations for ServiceNow and AWS solutions, including custom applications, OOTB modules, and integrations across the platform and AWS.
• Serve as a technical expert by mentoring junior developers, guiding platform best practices, and ensuring high quality engineering across ServiceNow development and integration areas.
• Drive adoption of AI assisted development tools (e.g., GitHub Copilot, AI code assistants, ServiceNow GenAI tooling).
• Lead implementation and governance of ServiceNow Generative AI features (Now Assist, GenAI authoring, Virtual Agent enhancements).
• Apply modern platform engineering practices including ATF, CI/CD pipelines, scoped app development, and modular architecture.
• Champion secure coding and compliance across ServiceNow and AWS solutions.
• Partner with product owners and architects to define platform strategy, standards, and scalable design patterns.
• Lead advanced enterprise integrations using Integration Hub and custom REST/SOAP/API solutions.
• Modernize legacy workflows to improve UX and business automation.
• Provide thought leadership in AI enhanced development lifecycle (test generation, documentation generation, code quality automation)
• Support development of the design strategy for new products.
• Act as team lead on implementation process for new products.
• Identify opportunities for product improvements.
• Lead team members on the product lifecycle and ongoing maintenance.
• Ensure product strategy is in alignment with business objectives.

Benefits

• A broad range of Health, Life, Voluntary Lifestyle, and other benefits and perks that enhance an employee's physical, mental, emotional, and financial well-being.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior