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Position Overview:

Are you a transformation champion Are you looking for a career that allows you to work with the latest and greatest technologies Do you have proven record of enabling enterprise change through architectural leadership

The Freddie Mac Multifamily Business Unit is seeking a portfolio lead to provide leadership and oversight associated with the Solutions Architecture for Business Applications. The candidate will be responsible for leading a number of highly visible initiatives to support Multifamily Business and Engineering teams. You will help your team through transformation into Agile Architecture and will align with the Modern Delivery methodology.

Our Impact:

• Introduce the overall technical vision for a particular solution by defining and establishing the solution architecture

• Define High Level Solution Intent target state architectures and their roadmaps for portfolio products by collaborating with Business Architects CPOs POs CDL and other business and IT partners to ensure alignment in visions goals and objectives

• Define and build reference architectures and architecture/design patterns to ensure consistent implementation of the architecture roadmaps

• Own and drive development and maintenance of detailed solution intent product architecture for a responsible ARTs (information application technology security and deployment view points) that addresses functional and non-functional requirements and ensures alignment in implementation

• Plan and Develop Architectural Runway in support of new business Features and Capabilities

• Identify solution alternatives and/or new technologies to meet new business needs or address existing business concerns such as customer experience operational efficiency performance and cost effectiveness

• Leverage Generative AI AI/ML capabilities within Enterprise Governance bound to enhance Multifamily Business capabilities

• Participate in pre-deployment deployment and post-deployment activities to ensure successful deployment

• Participate in incident resolution process to help trouble-shooting identify issue resolution and impact assessments

• Build Reference Application/Implementation for reusability and accelerated adoption of new architectural standards/patterns

• Develop/Maintain Application Design pattern catalog

Your Impact:

• Collaborate with Business Architects Chief Product Owner Product Owner Agile Coach to ensure Solution and Technical Architecture creation for a given requirement/feature/initiative

• Collaborate with Enterprise Architecture and Risk & Security groups to ensure new and existing solutions are aligned with enterprise standards

• Partner with business and IT team members to drive product research RFP/vendor interview from technical perspective and POCs activities for COTS solution in a buy decision and owns the responsibility to communicate business cases for TAWG/ARB approvals

• Work with development leads on design brainstorming and design review to ensure alignment with architecture patterns and standards

• Work with ART members to resolve implementation issues from business or technical requirements design code testing to technology/platform

Qualifications:

• Undergraduate degree or equivalent experience required; Advanced degree preferred

• 8-10 years of experience in Solutions Architecture and Business Application development

• Prior Software development background

• 5 years of relevant task management experience

• Hands-on and architectural experience with modern Cloud Native architectures is required as well as proven record of leading architects through organizational transformations

• 3 years of relevant large-scale enterprise transformation experience as relates to architecture preferred

• Prior experience in the primary or secondary mortgage industry is desirable

• Deep knowledge of various enterprise level Platforms widely used in the industry preferred

• Extensive experience in Solution Architecture patterns such as micro-front ends microservices 12 factor applications etc.

• Experience to tools and technologies such Java 8/10 Spring and Spring Boot REST API AWS Managed EKS Istio Service Mesh Apigee API Gateway AWS Native Services SONAR Gradle Bitbucket SAFE Methodology CI/CD Jenkin Artifactory Docker Apache Kafka Cloud Data Lake Amazon MQ OAuth 2.0 Microservices/APIs Angular 10 Cypress Data Governance using Collibra Atlas MongoDB AWS RDS RedHat PAM for jBPM and Business Rules Kialis CloudFormation etc.

Keys to Success in this Role:

• Highly motivated and energetic self-starter with proven organizational and time management skills; tried experience operating at high standards of quality and accuracy within a fast paced changing environment

• Superb communication leadership and relationship management skills that enable partnering with and influencing key team members in an open collaborative environment at all levels in an organization

• Technical and Architectural leadership with knowledge of both legacy and modern cloud based distributed systems

• Excellent verbal and written communication skills and ability to succinctly present complex subject matter specifically translating technology problems/solutions to business partners.

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