Software Engineering Manager

Freddie Mac

2d•$154,000 - $232,000

About The Position

At Freddie Mac, our mission of Making Home Possible is what motivates us, and it’s at the core of everything we do. Since our charter in 1970, we have made home possible for more than 90 million families across the country. Continue your career journey where your work contributes to a greater purpose. Position Overview: We are seeking an experienced and motivated manager for our Business Process Management (BPM) Center of Excellence IT team at Freddie Mac to lead design, development, maintenance, and support for platform and applications. This role is pivotal in driving end-to-end delivery of automation solutions while fostering agile mindset. The ideal candidate will be responsible for overseeing application development, managing technology stacks, ensuring strong stakeholder communication, optimizing application architecture, and ensuring governance and compliance. Additionally, the Agile Development manager will lead a cross-functional team, guide vendor relationships, and drive continuous process improvements. Our Impact: Enterprise Business Technology Office (EBTO) support multiple verticals by crafting and creating solutions to a variety of technology challenges. This support takes many forms, including delivering automation solutions by building and enhancing software applications using Business Process Management and Low Code Application Platforms required for Internal Audit, Legal and various other divisions at Freddie Mac. The position focuses on software development leadership, agile delivery, technology architecture, and vendor management within a transformative environment. Leadership and Agile Delivery: The role involves managing and mentoring a development team, championing Agile best practices, and collaborating enterprise-wide to influence technical strategy and process improvements. Application Development and Technology Oversight: Responsibilities include overseeing automation solution development, technology stack decisions ensuring scalability and security, optimizing application architecture, and adapting to new technologies. Communication and Stakeholder Engagement: The manager acts as a liaison between software engineers and business stakeholders, ensuring clear communication, alignment on goals, and adapting to shifting priorities for successful delivery. Vendor and Compliance Management: The role includes managing vendor relationships to meet performance expectations and ensuring adherence to governance and compliance standards, alongside contributing to business automation roadmaps. Your Impact: Lead a high performing team to design, develop and support enterprise-level BPM applications using agile development methodologies Drive complex integrations with downstream and upstream applications Drive the technical solution for the need, valuing simplicity and be willing to challenge technical constraints to achieve a proven design Be the executor as well as the transformative force behind the technical solution Accountable for the delivery of quality software, which is aligned with enterprise architecture, performance, maintainable and accurately deployed Lead a manage technical resources & teams Mentor the teams and establish positive relationships to drive solutions aligned with a strategic vision Constantly look for innovative ways to tackle sophisticated technical problems and designing the solution, not afraid to challenge the status quo

Requirements

8-10+ years of related and proven experience engineering incredible solutions
2 + years of management experience with direct reports
2-4 + years leading modernized development teams
Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience; advanced studies/degree preferred
Experience leading modern delivery teams, implementing SDLC projects
Experience with BPM Tools (Appian or other)
Experience with DB2, Sybase, LDAP/TAM, Active Directory integrations
Knowledge of BPM tools platform management and implementation
Enterprise Modern Tools: Jenkins, Cucumber, Atlassian Suite (Jira, Bitbucket), Git
Experience developing software products in an Agile development environment and exposure to TDD practices.
Experience in the Financial Services industry

Nice To Haves

Strong hands-on technology architecture, design and implementation skills
Excellent communication skills and leading teams of motivated software engineers
Solid experience influencing business outcomes by working directly with the business users/team members
Ability to learn quickly and apply previous experience to our multifaceted environment Influence architectural outcomes to balance delivery feasibility and longevity of the platform
Excellent collaborator and fantastic teammate A spirit for innovation and ability to work in the space of “no longer” and “not yet”
Shown success coaching and redefining technical teams to shift to modern execution model

Responsibilities

Lead a high performing team to design, develop and support enterprise-level BPM applications using agile development methodologies
Drive complex integrations with downstream and upstream applications
Drive the technical solution for the need, valuing simplicity and be willing to challenge technical constraints to achieve a proven design
Be the executor as well as the transformative force behind the technical solution
Accountable for the delivery of quality software, which is aligned with enterprise architecture, performance, maintainable and accurately deployed Lead a manage technical resources & teams
Mentor the teams and establish positive relationships to drive solutions aligned with a strategic vision
Constantly look for innovative ways to tackle sophisticated technical problems and designing the solution, not afraid to challenge the status quo

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