You will be responsible for establishing, enabling and implementing team-wide standards and practices for delivering high quality engineering solutions with a focus on quality, predictability, repeatability, and scalability. Cultivate a culture of continuous improvement and innovation in delivery within the application services (AKA Middleware) engineering team. Bring a passion to stay on top of tech trends, experiment with and learn new technologies, participate in internal & external technology communities, and mentor other members of the engineering community.

Our Impact:

As a part of central IT, we provide platform and infrastructure services to firm. We assure Stability, Availability and Reliability of application runtime, integration and hosting services in a hybrid IT environment while seeking to prevent service impacts in a multi-layered and constantly evolving ecosystem that support hundreds of critical business applications to deliver Freddie Mac vison and mission. We engineer middleware products and services that are scalable, resilient and assure rapid recoverability from any impacts to business and services. We work together to strategize and transform IT with Automation and Process Engineering!

Your Impact:

As a leader for Application services (Middleware engineering), you will

• Assume the role of a service owner and associated responsibilities
• Drive organizational transformation by bringing cloud native and on-premise engineering teams into a cohesive organized team
• Consolidate / Optimize / transform / modernize application hosting services. Portfolio includes webservers, application servers, messaging / broker systems, application run time engines like Java, Spring etc.
• Drive Customer Experience (CX) and Developer Experience (DX) culture on MW engineering practice
• Elevate MW services to a "managed service provide" like offering that is efficient while delivering solutions to internal customers at a rapid pace
• Develop teams of engineers to think and implement proactively to ensure the stability and security of the platform
• Identify, Influence and Implement technology, process and skill changes to modernize our infrastructure
• Collaborate with senior leadership to assure visible communication, risk reduction and accountability for the performance of the team

Qualifications:

• College Degree or equivalent experience of 12+ years
• 5+ years of people management & organizational transformation skills
• 10+ years of authority level experience engineering new technical solutions
• Expertise in MW services such as Apache, Tomcat, WebLogic, Appian, Apigee, MQ, Kafka, enterprise schedulers like control-M etc are strongly encouraged
• Budget & vendor management is preferred
• Communicates well within the team to set clear goals and efficiently relay the status of accomplishments to management
• Must not only lead current technical trends, but also anticipate the team's growth in our future state technologies
• An eye for automating common processes
• AWS or other Cloud experience a plus

Keys to Success in this Role:

• Optimally communicates and influences
• Demonstrates deep job specific knowledge and standard processes to drive effective change and transform how work is performed
• Authority at engineering new solutions, elevates team members via mentoring and knowledge sharing. Highly effective team leader. Top doer for other IT and business partners.
• Significant contributions to strategy and objectives. Thought leadership in all areas of expertise for areas of responsibility.

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.

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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 $202,000 - $302,000 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.