Lead Python & AWS Developer

Fannie Mae•Reston, VA

6d•$123,000 - $161,000•Onsite

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. Job Description 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: 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.

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

As part of our comprehensive benefits package, Fannie Mae offers 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.

Stand Out From the Crowd

Upload your resume and get instant feedback on how well it matches this job.

Upload and Match Resume