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

Fannie Mae • Plano, TX

85d • $196,000 - $264,000 • Remote

About The Position

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

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 to work toward a common goal.
• Skilled 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 communicating in writing or verbally, copywriting, planning and distributing communication, etc.
• Experience in relationship management including managing and engaging stakeholders, customers, and vendors, building relationship networks, contracting, etc.
• Experience helping an organization to plan and manage change in effort 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
• Industry: Credit Intermediation and Related Activities
• Education Level: Bachelor's degree