Freddie Mac

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:

Looking for candidates who are passionate about growing their career while using groundbreaking technologies. This person is thrilled to work in a fast paced an ever-evolving environment!

Do you have passion for understanding customer needs and using technology to deliver top value? Do you enjoy working with a team of varying skill sets to collectively discover new opportunities to delight customers? If so, a role on the Enterprise BTO - ICM Finance Technology team could be a fit for you! We are looking for a person who is rock solid on technology, who has a flexible approach, and is eager to learn. If you breathe Java/J2EE and have a solid grasp of modern design patterns and architectural principles, read on!

Our Impact:

Freddie Mac is an industry leader building the future of technology for the housing/finance industry.

The Information Technology (IT) Division helps enable and transform Freddie Mac's business. We provide systems and technology that benefit the enterprise, customers, employees and our business partners. Our technology enhances the services we offer to our customers and improves productivity and performance for employees, making work easier.

Your Impact:

• Developing software solutions by studying organizational needs; conferring with users; studying systems flow and work processes; investigating problem areas; following the software development lifecycle.
• Follow established methodology and controls guidelines. Maintain agility and quality throughout development process.
• Documenting Technical Design, Interface Specifications and Unit Testing.
• Partner with Dev leads to define technical solutions to complex business use cases that align with target state architecture and conforms with corporate standard processes.
• Design and develop Microservices based solutions using Java & Spring Boot frameworks; Mongo DB; Selenium and Cucumber for test automation.
• Demonstrating ownership of problems, issues, or requests from start to finish and facilitating appropriate handoffs.
• Train, mentor and provide thought leadership to junior and mid-level developers.
• Ensuring that “Best Practices” for development activities (e.g. code reviews, unit testing, etc.) are followed through the project life cycle.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science or engineering or equivalent experience; advanced studies and degree preferred.
• Typically has 5 - 7 years related experience engineering software solutions for business and operational capabilities.
• Advanced understanding of typical multi-tier architectures: web servers, caching, application servers, & load balancers.
• 5+ years of hands-on experience on multiple technologies such as: Java/J2EE, REST based Web services, middleware (WebLogic, Apache, Spring Boot, etc.) and Python technologies in UNIX environment and Scripting languages such as UNIX Shell.
• 3+ years of hands-on experience with Front-end UI development frameworks like Angular and REACT JS
• Author, writing the unit, integration tests and functional automation
• Information and application security including LDAP, certificates, public key encryption, SSH, access credentials, etc.
• Provide production support – able to collaborate with Business and Technical teams to debug the issue
• Build automation / CICD pipeline integration tools: Jenkins, Atlassian Suite (Jira, Bitbucket), GIT, Artifactory
• Cloud: AWS (EKS, Docker, OpenShift), IICS, Dremio, Snowflake
• Relational databases: Sybase, DB2, SQL Server, Oracle, PostgreSQL
• Testing Tools: Cucumber, Cypress or Selenium
• Experience working in Agile, Modern Delivery experience is a plus.
• Provide production support – able to collaborate with Business and Technical teams to debug the issue
• Takes the lead on ensuring that the code is of high quality; constantly challenges ideas and opinions to avoid pitfalls and inefficient solutions.

Keys to Success in this Role:

• Strong consultation and communications skills.
• Demonstrated ability to communicate effectively with various teams, both business and technical, to achieve goals.
• Seek and embrace change – Continuously improve work processes rather than accepting status quo.
• Encouraging a Continuous Exploration process and likes to take on challenges with calculated risk.
• Ability to quickly comprehend the functions and capabilities of new technologies, and identify process improvements and efficiencies opportunities
• Flexible to work with different teams across organization
• Flexible to support weekend works.
• Motivated to learn new technologies and identify process improvements and efficiencies.
• Takes accountability, sets expectations, and delivers high quality technical solutions within agreed upon level of effort

Current Freddie Mac employees please apply through the internal career site.

We consider all applicants for all positions without regard to gender, race, color, religion, national origin, age, marital status, veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity/expression, physical and mental disability, pregnancy, ethnicity, genetic information or any other protected categories under applicable federal, state or local laws. We will ensure that individuals are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment. Please contact us to request accommodation.

A safe and secure environment is critical to Freddie Mac’s business. This includes employee commitment to our acceptable use policy, applying a vigilance-first approach to work, supporting regulatory mandates, and using best practices to protect Freddie Mac from potential threats and risk. Employees exercise this responsibility by executing against policies and procedures and adhering to privacy & security obligations as required via training programs.

CA Applicants: Qualified applications with arrest or conviction records will be considered for employment in accordance with the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers and the California Fair Chance Act.

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Time-type:Full time

FLSA Status:Exempt

Freddie Mac offers a comprehensive total rewards package to include competitive compensation and market-leading benefit programs. Information on these benefit programs is available on our Careers site.

This position has an annualized market-based salary range of $127,000 - $191,000 and is eligible to participate in the annual incentive program. The final salary offered will generally fall within this range and is dependent on various factors including but not limited to the responsibilities of the position, experience, skill set, internal pay equity and other relevant qualifications of the applicant.