Investment and Capital Markets Program Management Tech Lead; Hybrid - in Office Va or NY

At Freddie Mac, the Product and Program Manager will join the ICM Business Technology Office’s Strategic Initiatives and Transformations team. This individual‑contributor role focuses on coordinating ICM of software solutions for pre‑trade and post‑trade analytics for ICM Trading desks and other divisions, including Retained Portfolio Management and Analytics teams.

• Collaborate with Trade Capture, Data Services, and Pricing and Analytics teams to support an integrated, purpose‑driven trading platform and services.
• Perform requirements analysis, individually or collaboratively, translating them into detailed specifications and/or proof‑of‑concept code.
• Manage a central book‑of‑work for applications and services using agile practices, while advocating for and implementing high‑quality workflow and software design and controls and other risk mitigation principles.
• Work with product and program managers, product owners, and business stakeholders to support integration and coordination of cross‑functional deliverables.
• Build and maintain positive relationships with business stakeholders and technology partners, managing resource competition or constraints through transparency to all affected parties.
• Communicate program updates to users and senior management effectively.
• Support technology risk and control processes, contribute to audit and regulatory engagement and remediation, as needed.
• Develop sustainable operating models between business functions and technology.

• 8‑10 years in Financial Services technology; 5+ 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.
• Willingness to travel.
• Strong quantitative, analytic, product management and program management skills.
• Experience supporting pre‑trade analytics for mortgage markets and interest rate derivatives hedging required; previous coverage of municipal and credit index products preferred.
• Experience supporting position management and retained portfolios required; support of trade capture, settlement and delivery is preferred.
• Experience in workflow/process re‑engineering, technology re‑platforming and/or organization overhauls, including rationalizing of human and technology resources.
• College degree or equivalent experience; advanced degree preferred.

• 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, if not anticipate, 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 platforms or applications in relation 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, with the ability to provide leadership and continuity during times of change; possessing the vision and sensitivity to enable and sustain…