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Engineering Technical Lead (Hybrid - 3 Days in Office)

AT Freddie Mac
Freddie Mac

Engineering Technical Lead (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:

Technical Lead will lead projects and operations, providing technical guidance and oversight to a team of about 10 technical resources supporting Elastic, both on premises and SaaS. Elastic is used for several specific cases with varying degrees of criticality. They will bring both technical expertise and mentoring, coaching, and leadership to the team.

Our Impact:

The Elastic team works on logging and monitoring for any operational based need across the organization. Their work directly impacts the health and operational effectiveness of most Freddie Mac systems. They are seen as technical authorities and trusted advisors to a broad range of customers.

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Your Impact:

You will oversee and drive the development, optimization, and maintenance of our Elastic stack solutions. As the Tech Lead, you will provide technical leadership, guide a team of engineers, and collaborate across departments to ensure our systems are robust, scalable, and innovative.

Key Responsibilities:

  • Lead and mentor a team of developers and engineers working on Elastic stack efforts.
  • Design and implement Elastic solutions for data ingestion, storage, application performance management, dashboards, Kibana, anomaly detection, Gen AI and analytics, ensuring high performance and scalability.
  • Optimize Elastic stack components, including Elasticsearch, Logstash, Kibana, agents, etc.
  • Monitor and troubleshoot Elastic stack performance, addressing any bottlenecks or issues. Develop and enforce best practices for development, deployment, and monitoring.
  • Stay updated on industry trends and advancements in the enterprise logging and monitoring space.

Qualifications:

  • 8+ Years of experience in IT industry with at least 4 years in Technical Lead position.
  • Bachelor's degree in relevant field, Master's degree preferred.
  • 6 - 8 years of hand-on experience with Elastic stack Strong expertise in system design, data architecture, automation and scalability Proficiency in scripting and programming languages (e.g., Python, NodeJS, Java, etc.) Hands-on experience with DevOps practices, CI/CD pipelines, and infrastructure automation tools. Working experience with cloud platforms(AWS, Azure, or GCP) and containerization tools (Docker, Kubernetes).
  • Experience with machine learning or analytics using Elastic Familiarity with logging and monitoring tools integrated with Elastic.

Keys to Success in this Role:

  • Coordinating the team for maximum efficiency Serving as the initial technical contact for internal users and helping the individual team members to grow and succeed.
  • Ability to build trust with coworkers and customers Ability to display transparency is a must

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 $140,000 - $210,000 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-JR14353
Employment Type: Full Time