Agile Development, Technical Lead (Hybrid - 3 Days in Office)

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 looking for an opportunity to join our fast paced and passionate team that supports multiple IT applications built on various technologies with continuous modernization in progress? We are Modern Delivery Tool Chain (MDTC) accountable to lead continuous improvement of operations, operational automation, and high availability for tools. Our Impact We build and enhance software applications required for mandatory reporting of Freddie Mac's mortgage loan data to Federal Housing Finance Agency. Partner with Product and Business team members to ensure high quality product is developed and released into production. Work closely with Architecture, Stakeholders, Operations Partners, and Business Product teams to specify and refine solutions and practices. Evolve a DevOps culture to provide high quality, continuous operations, and ongoing support ensuring critical service level metrics, customer requirements and financial objectives. Driver for modernization of Freddie Mac's 5,000+ customers to release small incremental changes to production at 5x pace. Your Impact Build sustainable DevOps engineering functions that are responsible for platform availability, scale, and performance. Build tools to lead through automation and proactive/predictive alerts by having a strong data analytical tool set to identify areas of improvement. Improve system health such as self‑healing, resiliency, and continuous feedback. Lead instrumentation of APM in prod and non‑prod with dashboards including key performance indicators, alerts with thresholds and tolerances, and user patterns & usage. Implement comprehensive service monitoring to ensure uptime and performance, including synthetic transactions, real‑user monitoring, and application performance dashboards. Define, measure, and meet key service level objectives including availability, performance, incidents, and chronic problems. Ensure robust capacity planning models are defined for key platforms and regularly measure customer site performance and capacity to prevent downtime due to capacity issues. Own end‑to‑end availability and performance of critical platform services and build automation to prevent problem recurrence; eventually automate response to all non‑exceptional service conditions. Experienced in coding, scripting, and automating with languages including Groovy, Ansible, Selenium, Vgen, and shell scripting for routine operations tasks within the enterprise environment. Proficient in CI/CD pipeline development with Jenkins and Spinnaker to support microservice deployments into Amazon EKS and/or OpenShift Console environments. Experienced with code quality, coverage, and security scanning tools such as Fortify, Checkmarx, and SonarQube. Experience with code and release management tools such as Git, Bitbucket, Helm, Spinnaker, Jenkins, and Jira. Lead technical teams with a focus on productivity, cost optimization on infrastructure, and overall efficiency. Qualifications Bachelors or advanced degree or directly relevant professional experience. 8+ years of experience in delivering solutions using Software Development Life Cycle. 5+ years' experience working with complex SQL queries, AWS, and Unix environments. Proven experience with operational and organizational management, team leadership, and enterprise‑wide technology strategy. Good interpersonal and collaboration skills with strong communication skills at levels ranging from senior leadership to product team members. Knowledge and experience working with AWS, Python, and Java. Strong writing skills with detail orientation for documentation. Desire to expand knowledge and skill set in cloud‑based technologies and patterns. Keys to Success in this Role Takes accountability, sets expectations, and delivers high quality technical solutions within agreed upon level of effort. Strong analytical and problem‑solving skills. Excellent verbal and written communication skills. Ability to quickly comprehend the functions and capabilities of new technologies. Derives excitement and thrives in a fast‑paced and constantly evolving culture. Outstanding interpersonal, technical, and organizational skills. Passion for driving value to customers and excitement for modern digital processes (Agile) and delivery. Equal Employment Opportunity Freddie Mac is an equal opportunity employer and values 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. Legal Notice Qualified applicants in California 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. Salary Range This position has an annualized market‑based salary range of $154,000 - $230,000 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. #J-18808-Ljbffr Fairygodboss