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:

The Product and Program Manager, Senior will join the Investment and Capital Markets Business Technology Office's Strategic Initiatives and Transformations team. This position offers a chance to influence critical business functions and drive technological advancements within Freddie Mac.

This is an individual contributor role involved in the coordinating of software solutions for model analytics for trading desks and other divisional Retained Portfolio Management and Analytics teams.

• Freddie Mac strives to provide liquidity, stability, and affordability to the U.S. housing market. We help lenders, communities, and families understand sustainable homeownership.
• The I&CM division handles liquidity, financing, credit risk transfer, and hedging transactions, and manages Freddie Mac's portfolios of loans, securities, and derivatives.
• The I&CM Business Technology Office (BTO) is responsible for applications supporting pre-trade and post-trade data and analytics, what-if-scenario-analysis, transactions, operations cash and liquidity management; financial, risk management, and regulatory reporting.

• Collaborate with Trade Capture, Data Services, and Pricing and Analytics teams to support integrated and purpose driven trading platform and services.
• Perform requirements analysis, individually or collaboratively, translating them into detailed specifications and/or proof-of-concept code.
• Manage assignments from the centralized book-of-work from inception through execution, using agile practices and the standard-of-care expectations for architecture, risks and controls, and end-to-end workflow design.
• Work with product and program managers, product owners, and business stakeholders to support integration and coordination of application projects.
• Build and maintain positive relationships with business stakeholders, technology partners, providing transparent reporting of resource competition, constraints, other disruptions, or contextualized status updates effectively.

• 5-7 years in Financial Services technology; 2+ years in the mortgage market preferred.
• Proven success leading and implementing a broad range of strategic and tactical initiatives.
• Excellent presentation, written, and oral communication skills.
• Strong quantitative, analytic, product management and program management skills.
• Experience supporting model analytics for mortgage markets and interest rate derivatives hedging preferred.
• College degree or equivalent experience.

• Empathetic to business users, understanding both business and technology implications of requirements.
• Investment in understanding the business functions, software and data footprint, end-to-end processes and risk and control frameworks.
• Ability to react to business activity levels and implications engagement and other business needs of Technology teams.
• Must be able to plan, coordinate with excellent organizational skills to produce timely results.
• Knowledge of fixed income products, especially mortgages and derivatives.
• Experience supporting financial services domains such as Trading, Finance and Accounting, Middle Office/Trade Support, and Risk Management of Credit, Market, or Liquidity Risk, and Asset Liability Management.
• Experience supporting specialized financial services technology domains, such as quantitative models; analytics, scenario analysis, and stress testing frameworks; data science or data development; or user interface / experience design and development.
• Understand end-to-end content creation, model analytics, financial reporting (e.g. Profit and Loss (P&L)), risk management analytics, how any given application contributes to the end-to-end.
• Able to analyze to business use cases, requiring skills in data, analytics, process, and system workflow analysis. SQL and Python skills are preferred.
• Proficient in industry-standard tools for development tracking and documentation, such as JIRA, Confluence, and SharePoint. Experience with Agile and Scrum practices is preferred.
• Flexible, adaptable, and comfortable with ambiguity; performing with wherewithal and continuity during times of change.
• Cultivated curiosity and ongoing interest in how technology (applications, services, data, platforms) contributes to investment and capital markets, including trading, portfolio management, finance, accounting, and risk management.