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

Fannie Mae•Washington, DC

2d•$200,000 - $269,000•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. 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
Determining causes of operating errors and taking corrective action
Working with people with different functional expertise respectfully and cooperatively to work toward a common goal
Influencing including negotiating, persuading others, facilitating meetings, and resolving conflict
Product Development including designing products, developing product roadmaps, translating design requirements, prototyping, etc.
Communication including communicating in writing or verbally, copywriting, planning and distributing communication, etc.
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
Programming including coding, debugging, and using relevant programming languages
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 analyzing the inputs, outputs, and process
Skilled in Excel
Skilled in SQL
Skilled in Java
Skilled in Python object-oriented programming
Experience using JIRA
Skilled in AWS Developer tools such as CodeBuild, CodeDeploy, CodeStar, or CodePipeline

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.