Lead API Platform Architect – Exchange & AI Protocols

Playing an essential role in the U.S. economy, Fannie Mae is foundational to housing finance. Here, your expertise can help fuel purpose-driven innovation that expands access to home ownership and affordable rental housing across the country. Join Fannie Mae to grow your career and help people find a place to call home.

As a valued contributor to our team, you will provide expert advice and participate in designing, developing, testing, and maintaining hardware, technology, and processes.

• Determine the needs of customer groups across multiple projects, programs, or products while identifying and resolving conflicting and/or complementary needs.
• Design and develop technical solutions, which include leading matrixed teams.
• Apply extensive expertise in process-driven approach in designing solutions.
• Oversee the maintenance of existing technical solutions.

• 8 years

• Determining causes of operating errors and taking corrective action.
• Working with people from different functional expertise respectfully and cooperatively to work toward a common goal.
• Influencing including negotiating, persuading others, facilitating meetings, and resolving conflict.
• Product Development including designing products, developing product roadmaps, translating design requirements, prototyping, etc.
• Communication including communicating in writing or verbally, copywriting, planning and distributing communication, etc.
• Relationship Management including managing and engaging stakeholders, customers, and vendors, building relationship networks, contracting, etc.
• Experience helping an organization plan and manage change to meet strategic objectives.
• Programming including coding, debugging, and using relevant programming languages.
• Product Testing including testing and evaluating software, usability testing, UAT, and using relevant product testing technology.
• Skilled in establishing and maintaining consistency of a product's performance, functional, and physical attributes with its requirements, design, and operational information.
• Ability to frame ideas as systems and analyzing the inputs, outputs, and processes.

• Skilled in Excel.
• Skilled in SQL.
• Skilled in Java.
• Skilled in Python object-oriented programming.
• Experience using JIRA.
• Skilled in AWS Developer tools such as Code Build, Code Deploy, Code Star, or Code Pipeline.

• Bachelor degree or equivalent.
• Deep understanding of API lifecycle: design, versioning, security, throttling, analytics.
• Experience with API management platforms (Preferably Google Apigee OPDK and GCP, Google Apigee Hybrid).
• Knowledge of OpenAPI/Swagger, Graph
  
  QL, and RESTful principles.
• Deep understanding of OAuth 2.0, JWT, mTLS, API key management.
• Deep understanding of Load balancing, caching strategies, high availability, and disaster recovery design.
• Experience gathering industry best practices, trends, and formulating roadmaps and white papers.

Target Pay Range: $ - $ a year

Internal

Job Title:

Digital Engineering - Engineering - Principal

Education:

Bachelor's Level Degree (Required)

Fannie Mae is an equal opportunity employer and considers qualified applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability, age, sexual orientation, gender identity/gender expression, marital or parental status, or any other protected factor. Fannie Mae is committed to providing reasonable accommodations to qualified individuals with disabilities who are employees or applicants for employment, unless to do so would cause undue hardship to the company.