Principal Engineer (Director IC), Exchange Platform (APIs, Files, AI protocols, and others)

Fannie Mae • Washington, DC

84d • $196,000 - $264,000

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 contributor to our team, you will provide expert advice to the team and participate in designing, developing, testing, and/or maintaining hardware, technology, and/or processes.

Requirements

• 8 years of experience in relevant field.
• Skilled in determining causes of operating errors and taking corrective action.
• Ability to work with people with different functional expertise respectfully and cooperatively.
• Experience in influencing, including negotiating, persuading others, facilitating meetings, and resolving conflict.
• Experience in product development including designing products, developing product roadmaps, translating design requirements, prototyping, etc.
• Strong communication skills including writing and verbal communication.
• Experience in relationship management including managing and engaging stakeholders, customers, and vendors.
• Experience in helping an organization to plan and manage change to meet strategic objectives.
• Proficient in programming including coding, debugging, and using relevant programming languages.
• Experience in product testing including testing and evaluating software, usability testing, UAT, and using relevant product testing technology.
• Skilled in establishing and maintaining consistency of a product's performance, functional, and physical attributes with its requirements, design, and operational information.
• Ability to frame ideas as systems and analyze the inputs, outputs, and process.

Nice To Haves

• Bachelor degree or equivalent.
• Deep understanding of API lifecycle: design, versioning, security, throttling, analytics.
• Experience with API management platforms (Preferably Google Apigee OPDK and GCP, Google Apigee Hybrid).
• Knowledge of OpenAPI/Swagger, GraphQL, and RESTful principles.
• Deep understanding of OAuth 2.0, JWT, mTLS, API key management.
• Deep understanding of Load balancing, caching strategies, High availability, and disaster recovery design.
• Experience in gathering industry best practices, trends and formulating roadmaps and white papers.

Responsibilities

• Determine the needs of customer groups across multiple projects, programs, or products while identifying and resolving conflicting and/or complementary needs.
• Design and develop technical solutions, which include leading matrixed teams.
• Apply extensive expertise in process-driven approach in designing solutions.
• Oversee the maintenance of existing technical solutions.

Benefits

• 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
• Education Level: Bachelor's degree
• Number of Employees: 5,001-10,000 employees