Senior Data Engineer

Senior Data Engineer

At Freddie Mac, our mission of Making Home Possible is what motivates us, and it's at the core of everything we do. Since our charter in 1970, we have made home possible for more than 90 million families across the country. Join an organization where your work contributes to a greater purpose.

Position Overview

Are you looking for a career that enables you to bring your technology and operations expertise to influence and develop tools / solutions that will improve an organizations Identity Governance capability? Freddie Mac is seeking a creative hands-on Senior Data Engineer to be a member of the Identity and Access Management (IAM) team within the Enterprise Business Technology Operation (BTO) organization. You will be working to build innovative solutions for improving our operational efficiency through automation, increasing user satisfaction with improved user experiences and helping to modernize our technology stack by leveraging AWS/Cloud native technologies.

Our Impact

The Enterprise BTO organization enables business operational excellence through the flexible use of technology. The department provides IT strategic services (software development, enhancements, and production support) to support the needs of the Enterprise groups - External Relations and Corporate Communications, Finance, Human Resources, Internal Audit, Legal, Operational Resilience, and Regulatory Affairs.

This role will be focused within IAM and often have intersections with the other above listed business lines. Delivery of IAM solutions to enable self-service capabilities Delivery of integrations between IAM systems and other systems Collaboration with other technology teams to advance our technical capabilities, automate and optimize processes to meet business challenges.

Your Impact

Be an active member of multiple high-performing teams. Provide technical leadership and identify trends, patterns, and insights that can advise business decisions and strategies. Support engineering domain to craft, develop, and implement solutions that meet business needs. Ensure solutions align with business objectives and deliver measurable outcomes. Stay up to date with industry/enterprise standards, latest technologies and general principles, and techniques.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent professional experience; advanced degree preferred.
• Minimum of 5-7 years of relevant experience across Systems Engineering, DevOps, Site Reliability Engineering (SRE), Infrastructure Operations, and hands-on Cloud Engineering.
• Demonstrated experience supporting engineering teams through automated deployments, CI/CD pipelines, and observability, enabling rapid and reliable delivery.
• Hands-on experience with front-end technologies, including JavaScript, TypeScript, ReactJS, and Node.js.
• Strong experience supporting and operating on-premises and AWS infrastructure, including VPC, IAM, EC2, EKS, and related services.
• Proficiency with Python, PowerShell, Unix shell scripting, and Control-M to build, test, automate, and maintain cloud-native and legacy applications.
• Ability to design and deploy applications leveraging AWS services, including S3, Glue, Redshift, Lambda, and pipeline capabilities, based on evolving business and technology needs.
• Experience integrating and supporting CI/CD platforms, such as Jenkins, GitHub Actions, or GitLab CI, to enable continuous delivery and efficient development workflows.

Keys to Success in This Role

• Ability to work across multiple technologies, drive engineering solutions, and champion modernization initiatives.
• Provide day-to-day infrastructure and production support while advancing deployment automation, cloud migration, infrastructure modernization, and production stability.
• Communicate and collaborate effectively across teams within a matrixed organization.
• Demonstrate a strong learning mindset by adopting new technologies and identifying process improvements, automation opportunities, and reusable engineering solutions across development teams.
• Provide technical leadership and mentorship to development teams, including guidance and coaching for junior engineers.

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 $116,000 - $174,000 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.