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:

Are you passionate about technology transformation? Are you looking for a career that enables you to work on the latest and greatest technologies? Do you have a proven record of enabling enterprise change through architectural leadership? The Freddie Mac Enterprise Operations & Technology (EO&T) division is seeking a Senior Technical Lead Architect to provide architectural services working with its Freddie Mac partners.

This Senior Technical Lead will be an active part of a team of architects providing services within the Infrastructure Architecture team comprising of seasoned architect resources focused on base enterprise Infrastructure Architecture segments (Compute, Storage, Network and Network-based services). You will be engaged with teams delivering next generation innovation in alignment with agile and Modern Delivery methodologies within Freddie Mac with focus on Network, Security, Cloud integration and evolution of highly available networking/cloud operating environments supporting end user and business critical application workloads.

• Introduce the overall technical vision for a particular solution within Enterprise Operations and Technology division including Network, Core Services & End User Technologies area by defining and establishing the solution architecture
• Collaborate with Enterprise Architecture and Risk & Security groups to ensure new and existing solutions are aligned with enterprise standards
• Own and drive development and maintenance of detailed solution intent, product architecture for a responsible ARTs (information, application, technology, security and deployment viewpoints) that addresses functional and non-functional requirements and ensures alignment in implementation
• Partner with business and IT stakeholders to drive product research, RFP/vendor interview from technical perspective and POCs activities for COTS solution in a buy decision and owns the responsibility to communicate business cases for TAWG/ARB approvals
• Work with CDL/DLs on design brainstorming and design review to ensure alignment with architecture, patterns and standards
• Provide Inner-Source projects stewardship

• Define and build reference architectures and architecture/design patterns to ensure consistent implementation of the architecture roadmaps for Network, Infrastructure Core Services, End User & Mobile technologies.
• Define, roll out an Infrastructure Product and Services catalog (Align infrastructure tools and services to the catalog).
• Assist portfolio/domain architect in defining High Level Solution Intent, target state architectures and their roadmaps for portfolio products by collaborating with CPOs, POs, CDL and other business and IT stakeholders to ensure alignment in visions, goals and objectives
• Plan and Develop Architectural Runway in support of new business Features and Capabilities
• Identify solution alternatives and/or new technologies to meet new business needs or solve existing business concerns, such as customer experience, operational efficiency, performance and cost effectiveness
• Work to resolve implementation issues from business or technical requirements, design, code, testing, to technology/platform
• Participate in pre-deployment, deployment and post-deployment activities to ensure successful deployment
• Participate in incident resolution process to help troubleshooting, identify issue resolution and impact assessments
• Build Reference Application/Implementation for reusability and accelerated adoption of new architectural standards/patterns

• Hands-on and architectural experience with Network, Infrastructure Core Servers, End User and Mobile solutions in a hybrid (AWS, GCP, O365, Workspace ONE -- IaaS, PaaS and SaaS) operating model is required in this role, as well as proven record of leading and influencing Engineering and Operations team across broader Infrastructure technology stack through major technology transformation efforts.
• Undergraduate degree or equivalent experience required; Advanced degree preferred
• 10+ years of experience in Solutions Architecture specifically Enterprise Network, Infrastructure Core services, End User and Mobile Device Management, O365 and Collaboration services and automation.
• 3+ years of relevant large-scale enterprise transformation experience as relates to architecture preferred
• Prior experience in the primary or secondary mortgage industry is desirable
• Deep knowledge of various enterprise level Network & End User solutions widely used in the industry preferred

• Highly motivated and energetic self-starter with strong organizational and time management skills.
• Proven experience operating at high standards of quality and accuracy within a fast-paced changing environment.
• Excellent communication, leadership and relationship management skills, that enable partnering with and influencing key stakeholders in an open, collaborative environment at all levels in an organization.
• Technical and Architectural leadership with knowledge of both legacy and modern cloud based infrastructure (networking technologies and distributed systems).
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills and ability to succinctly present complex subject matter, specifically translating technology problems/solutions to business stakeholders.