Software Engineering, Tech Lead

Freddie Mac•McLean, VA

3d•$154,000 - $230,000

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. Join an organization where your work contributes to a greater purpose. Position Overview: If you are an organized, detail-oriented, deadline driven Information Technology professional with a passion for operating in a fast-paced environment then we are your next destination employer! Freddie Mac Multi-Family is looking for experienced individuals to partner with business operations to reimagine our applications and processes. Apply to join us, the Multi-Family Technology team! As an Agile Development Tech Lead, you will be working in hands-on capacity on critical Freddie Mac Multi-Family Systems. You will be collaborating with project team that’s comprised of likeminded full stack Agile software developers, all working together to enhance and modernize the capabilities of these systems. Our team is made up of versatile individuals who thrive in a challenging work environment and enjoy applying their problem-solving skills. This role will be providing technical guidance and oversight to project execution team including technical mentoring and oversight. The position will also ensure alignment between project activities and accepted scope and negotiate with the business, vendors and other collaborators on changes to scope. Our Impact: We work on the end-to-end delivery of software product design and development using full stack technologies. We contribute to the solution delivery. The individual would support the technology and tools changes/improvements on the delivery processes. Be a role model and a technical mentor to junior developers. Work collaboratively with the other open minded, technology savvy and dedicated team members! Your Impact: Partner with technical team to design technical solutions to complex business use cases that align with target state architecture and conforms with corporate standard methodologies. Provide technical guidance to the project team members, lead design and code reviews. Train, mentor and provide thought leadership to junior developers. Analyze the Business requirements and come-up with design options that align with the technical roadmap and build proof of concepts as needed. Design and develop Micro Services based solutions using Java/JEE frameworks, UI frameworks, Docker and Open Shift. Work on the technical upgrades/migrations including but not limited to middleware, database and PAM workflow to the cloud Assess opportunities for application and process improvements, optimizations & performance tuning for Java/JEE applications. Design scaling strategies and develops automation scripts and solutions Provide mentorship on build automation using Dockers & Containers, and Orchestration technologies like OpenShift / Kubernetes/EKS and Atlassian tool suite. Also ensure application stability by implementing monitoring solutions for all layers of the infrastructure Support the team in solving issues and come up with timely resolutions to address them. The position will also ensure alignment between project activities and accepted scope and negotiate with the business, vendors and other stakeholders on changes to scope. This role will provide technical expertise and guidance to various projects in a hands-on capacity while mentoring developers in the team.

Requirements

Bachelor’s or Masters degree in computer science or engineering or equivalent experience; advanced studies/degree preferred
A minimum of 8 - 10+ years of experience engineering exciting solutions
Experience working with large teams (more than 10) performing software development or infrastructure upgrades
Solid understanding of typical multi-tier architectures: web servers, batch and database
Knowledge / hands-on experience on multiple technologies such as:Java, Spring Boot, RESTful APIs, Angular, Node JS, JavaScript, Typescript, HTML 5, and CSS
Database technologies - MongoDB, Postgres, etc.
Information and application security including firewall, AD, TAM/PING, LDAP, certificates, public key encryption, SSH, access credentials, etc.
Large microservice based architectures, container orchestration frameworks
Build automation / CICD pipeline integration tools (Jenkins, Hudson, Bamboo, GIT, Bitbucket, Spinnaker)
Sound Knowledge of unit testing methodologies and frameworks
Cloud platforms AWS/Azure/Google
Excellent communication skills

Nice To Haves

Build strong partnerships with the business and across IT to help advise strategic and tactical implementations.
Ability to make substantial individual contributions to the code base
Able to ensure alignment and consistency with Modern delivery practices
Very strong communication skills
Ability to work well with the business and people with varying degrees of technical expertise.
Ability to adapt to a constantly changing environment, flexibility to work extended hours and weekends
Responsible for leading an Initiative or a large and complex project or a portfolio of large projects.
Provide technical mentorship to all levels of a development team, mentoring them on technical topics
Act as an agent for change regarding the new technologies and tools, promote top code quality by leading design and code reviews, and solve complicated/complicated issues.
Deep understanding of end-to-end software development and support processes.
Proficiency & experience using methodologies (SDLC, AGILE, EDM, etc..)
Work and collaborate across teams

Responsibilities

Partner with technical team to design technical solutions to complex business use cases that align with target state architecture and conforms with corporate standard methodologies.
Provide technical guidance to the project team members, lead design and code reviews.
Train, mentor and provide thought leadership to junior developers.
Analyze the Business requirements and come-up with design options that align with the technical roadmap and build proof of concepts as needed.
Design and develop Micro Services based solutions using Java/JEE frameworks, UI frameworks, Docker and Open Shift.
Work on the technical upgrades/migrations including but not limited to middleware, database and PAM workflow to the cloud
Assess opportunities for application and process improvements, optimizations & performance tuning for Java/JEE applications.
Design scaling strategies and develops automation scripts and solutions
Provide mentorship on build automation using Dockers & Containers, and Orchestration technologies like OpenShift / Kubernetes/EKS and Atlassian tool suite.
Ensure application stability by implementing monitoring solutions for all layers of the infrastructure
Support the team in solving issues and come up with timely resolutions to address them.
Ensure alignment between project activities and accepted scope and negotiate with the business, vendors and other stakeholders on changes to scope.
Provide technical expertise and guidance to various projects in a hands-on capacity while mentoring developers in the team.