Senior Software Engineer

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Position Overview:

Do you love coding and embrace change and innovation and push the boundaries of what is possible while helping people grow in their career path? We are searching for a highly innovative Senior Developer to join our team. Interested in learning more? Read on!

At Freddie Mac, we are in the process of digital transformation and modernization and we want you to be a part of it! You will get to show off your skills as a full stack software engineer, and will influence outcomes, guide transformation, and put your stamp on how the team and organization evolves. We need you to use your experience and success in coaching and transforming technical teams to shift to a modern execution model.

The journey is wide open with possibilities!

Our Impact:

As part of Single Family Securitization organization, our vision is to create a scalable, innovative platform to support Freddie Mac Single Family Securitization Operations. Our team is responsible for providing solutions for all business areas at Freddie Mac – i.e. Single Family, Multi-Family and Capital Markets to improve operational efficiencies and provide better business value and faster time to market.

Your Impact:

• Developing software solutions by studying organizational needs; conferring with users; studying systems flow and work processes; investigating problem areas; following the software development lifecycle.

• Follow established methodology and controls guidelines. Maintain agility and quality throughout development process.

• Documenting Technical Design, Interface Specifications and Unit Testing.

• Participate in technical discussions and provide recommendations or solutions.

• Demonstrating ownership of problems, issues, or requests from start to finish and facilitating appropriate handoffs.

• Ensuring that “Best Practices” for development activities (e.g. code reviews, unit testing, etc.) are followed through the project life-cycle.

Qualifications:

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or Engineering or equivalent experience; advanced studies and degree preferred.

• A minimum ofyears of experience engineering software solutions for business and operational capabilities.

• 5+ years of experience in developing applications using Java/J2EE technologies, preferably in Unix environment.

• Advanced understanding of typical multi-tier architectures: web servers, caching, application servers, & load balancers.

• Hands-on experience on multiple technologies such as:
Java/J2EE & middleware (Web Logic, Apache, Spring Boot, etc.) technologies in UNIX environment and Scripting languages such as UNIX Shell.

• Build automation / CICD pipeline integration tools (Jenkins, GIT, Bitbucket, Artifactory, etc.).

• Relational databases (Sybase, DB2, SQL Server, Oracle, Postgre

SQL).

• Information and application security including LDAP, certificates, public key encryption, SSH, access credentials, etc.

• Good communication skills. The incumbent will be responsible for interfacing and influencing with the business lines as well as others across IT.

• Experience with Groovy.

• Modern Tools:
Jenkins, Cucumber, Atlassian Suite (Jira, Bitbucket), Git.

• Cloud: AWS.

• Other: EKS, Docker, Openshift.

Keys to Success in this Role:

• You embrace change and innovation.

• Encouraging a Continuous Exploration process and likes to take on challenges with calculated risk.

• Passion for driving value to customers and excitement for modern delivery (CI/CD) process.

• Ability to work quickly on delivery and able to apply risk-based approach to prioritize work.

• Ability to quickly comprehend the functions and capabilities of new technologies, and identify process improvements and efficiencies opportunities.

• Good interpersonal, relationship building and team working skills.

• Demonstrated ability to communicate effectively with various teams, both business and technical, to achieve goals.

• Motivated to learn new technologies and identify process improvements and efficiencies.

• Takes accountability, sets expectations, and delivers high quality technical solutions.

Today, Freddie Mac makes home possible for one in four home borrowers and…