Agile Development, Senior 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 Toolchain is a key component of Freddie Mac's Modern Delivery program. It provides tools to transform the development & delivery of business capabilities using an automated workflow with embedded controls that deploys to a cloud‑based infrastructure. This role will be accountable for strategic leadership of the Modern Delivery Toolchain as a Product. That includes, but is not limited to overall vision, design, prioritization, stakeholder & risk management, roadmap execution & operations of the toolchain. Our Impact Provide best in class support for 5000+ users & multiple mission‑critical products across the Enterprise. Partner with Business Technology & IT Technology, Risk, and Security divisions to ensure alignment of solution design with information security standards, architecture standards, governance, and compliance requirements. Manage toolchain operations such as resiliency, capacity, and uptime in a highly effective manner. Collaborate with stakeholders from disparate lines of business to prioritize capabilities and a customer‑value centric strategic roadmap. Partner with Governance groups on principles and guidelines that enable engineering teams to deliver low‑risk, high‑impact solutions. Build and communicate new capabilities, action plans to close gaps, and meet roadmap commitments. Your Impact Develop solution design & roadmap for CI/CD automation with embedded controls for complex scenarios such as governance, experimentation, and modular patterns to expand automation of emerging & established cloud‑native stack across industry‑standard cloud providers. Strategize delivery of business priorities such as configuring and integrating automation of testing, security & risk‑management policy enforcement, and release‑management functions such as change record, asset records, and change traceability. Drive operational excellence capabilities such as Single Sign‑On, monitoring dashboards, audit‑compliance reports, password & vulnerability management. Develop open lines of communication with senior leaders across divisions. Coach teams to collaborate effectively focused on customer‑centric outcomes. Accountably identify emerging technology risk and create actions plans for open risks. Serve as a trusted partner for technical consultation with executives and senior leadership across business, platform, risk, and other partners to align roadmaps with Business & IT's strategic vision. Qualifications College degree or equivalent experience; 10–15 years of technology experience and 4+ years of management experience. Experience designing, overseeing, building, and operating solutions with strong organizational and time‑management skills. Operate independently with minimal guidance and demonstrate successful delivery. Use of multiple automation tools & plugins via API, embedded scripts, and configuration for COTS tools for both pre‑ and post‑actions for control activities such as merge checks and task/story approvals. Create a modular library for Jenkins DSL using Groovy; strategy to determine refactor needs and a staggered plan to meet enterprise automation use cases. Create, organize, and manage a central set of templates across technology microservices (Java, JS, Python), automations (Scriptrunner, Helm deployment patterns for cloud components such as storage, DB, gateway, vault across runtimes such as EKS, OCP using tools/products such as Rafay, Ansible, CFT, Terraform), with an extensible framework as a design principle. Experience integrating Jenkins for data‑product deployments like Attunity, Talend, and Snowflake. Experience designing and integrating with SAS products such as Salesforce, Automation Anywhere (RPA), Appian, MicroStrategy, etc. to automate build, deploy, and release processes. Design KPI indicators (including load & scalability) and monitor operation/runtime across tools such as Atlassian Jira, Bitbucket, Confluence, Jenkins, Rafay, and integrations such as security (Fortify, Blackduck, Checkmarx, Twistlock, ELK), with strategy to manage continuous availability and code‑based configuration to swap tools as needed. Design engineering productivity metrics such as merge size/time/frequency/releases to provide actionable insight for customers to evolve their software‑development and delivery practices. Experience reviewing cloud cost using tools such as Apptio to identify opportunities and devise action plans to reduce cost by right‑sizing compute, storage, API calls across cloud‑native services used by customers and the toolchain environment. Build strategy to accelerate capability building with federated‑contributor mode—guardrails for enterprise controls, scale, & maintainability. Experience with AWS native services for releases, upgrades, and vulnerability remediation for COTS products on managed infrastructure. Keys to Success in this Role Comfortable working with unknowns; outstanding verbal and written communication skills to concisely present complex technical aspects, linking technology & business partners. Ability to influence and work with multiple senior leadership partners to establish goals, objectives, and action plans. Ability to critically evaluate information, reconcile conflicts and self‑motivate with strong organizational and time‑management skills. Current Freddie Mac employees please apply through the internal career site. 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, visit and register with our referral code: MAC. Job Type: Full time FLSA Status: Exempt Compensation & Benefits: Annualized market‑based salary range of $176,000 – $264,000. Eligible to participate in the annual incentive program. Additional benefits include competitive compensation and market‑leading benefit programs. Information on benefit programs is available on the Careers site. #J-18808-Ljbffr Fairygodboss