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Agile Development Professional (Hybrid - 3 Days in Office)

AT Freddie Mac
Freddie Mac

Agile Development Professional (Hybrid - 3 Days in Office)

McLean, VA

At Freddie Mac, you will do important work to build a better housing finance system and you'll be part of a team helping to make homeownership and rental housing more accessible and affordable across the nation.

Position Overview:

We have a great opportunity for an Agile Development, Professional to join the SF Credit Risk Transfer Securitization (CRT Sec) team and work in a fast-paced Modern delivery team. Are you excited to work in a fast-paced Agile environment and enjoy working in a multitude of technologies? If so, join our team of open minded, highly motivated individuals who are currently working in an interesting mix of cloud-based technologies within Single-Family Business Technology Office (BTO) group.

Our Impact:

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

Our Modern Delivery team working on Cloud Native applications helps enable and transform Freddie Mac's business. We provide systems and technology that benefit the enterprise, customers, and our business partners.

Your Impact:

You will be working with the product teams and the product owners through the modernization, driving adoption of modern software engineering and delivery practices (Real Agile, TDD, ATDD, Stateless Design, Microservices, Containerization, etc.), while providing continuous business value to customers. Below are the key functions for this role

Technical Leadership -

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.

Train, mentor and provide thought leadership to junior and mid-level developers

Development & Execution -

Work within a product team demonstrating the Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe)

Analyze the user stories 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 & Spring Boot frameworks; Mongo DB; Selenium and Cucumber for test automation

Assess opportunities for application & process improvements, optimizations & performance tuning

Produce high quality design artifacts that cover all aspects of sound architecture

Develop within a Cloud-based architecture - Amazon Web Services (AWS) - Goldfield

DevOps -

Adopt the CI/CD process within the team and continue to enable improve it

Qualifications:

  • Bachelor's/Master's Degree with Major in Computer Science/Engineering or equivalent
  • Minimum of 3 years of experience in software development; 5 years of relevant experience and specialized training or certification in the following technologies: J2EE, Java, Web Development and SQL; Groovy a plus;
  • Experience in Micro-services and Docker Containers Platforms using OpenShift and Kubernetes.
  • Extensible knowledge on Spring-Boot, Spring Integration Java Technologies.
  • Experience/Knowledge on MongoDB, DB2, SQL Server, PostgreSQL Databases.
  • High level of exposure to testing frameworks like Junit & Cucumber & Front-end UI development frameworks like Angular and REACT JS is desired
  • Experience in code delivery pipelines and adept in building Build and Deployment tools using Maven, Gradle, ANSIBLE and Jenkins
  • Experience with REST based Web services
  • Strong SQL skills is a must
  • Modern Tools: Jenkins, Cucumber/Specflow, Atlassian Suite (Bamboo, Jira, Bitbucket), Git
  • DBs: DB2, PostgreSQL,
  • Cloud: AWS
  • Knowledge or experience in Jira, Confluence and Bitbucket.
  • Experience working in Scaled Agile, Modern Delivery experience is a plus.
  • Significant contributor to the team, whose code follows latest coding practices and Freddie Mac standards.
  • Author, writing the unit, integration tests and functional automation.
  • Provide production support - able to collaborate with Business and Technical teams to debug the issue
  • Challenge ideas and opinions to avoid pitfalls and inefficient solutions.
  • Takes the lead on ensuring that the code is of high quality; constantly challenges ideas and opinions to avoid pitfalls and inefficient solutions.
  • Demonstrates innovation when developing and designing the business logic.
  • Demonstrates a collaboration approach while working with others to build the business logic and backend systems.

Keys to Success in this Role:

  • Strong consultation and communication skills
  • Proactive in identifying existing issues and providing an alternate solution
  • Curiosity to learn about new trends related to tools and technology
  • Seek and Embrace Change - Continuously improve work processes rather than accepting status quo
  • Flexible to work with different teams across organization
  • Flexible to support weekend works.
  • 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.

Today, Freddie Mac makes home possible for one in four home borrowers and is one of the largest sources of financing for multifamily housing. Join our smart, creative and dedicated team and you'll do important work for the housing finance system and make a difference in the lives of others.

We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity and inclusion at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, disability status or any other characteristic protected by applicable law. We will ensure that individuals with differing abilities 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.

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.

Notice to External Search Firms: Freddie Mac partners with BountyJobs for contingency search business through outside firms. Resumes received outside the BountyJobs system will be considered unsolicited and Freddie Mac will not be obligated to pay a placement fee. If interested in learning more, please visit www.BountyJobs.com and register with our referral code: MAC.

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 $103,000 - $155,000 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.

Client-provided location(s): McLean, VA, USA
Job ID: Freddie_Mac-JR14048
Employment Type: Other