Tech Lead, Agile Developer

Freddie Mac

Job Location:

McLean, MD - USA

Monthly Salary: $ 154000 - 230000

Posted on: 4 hours ago

Vacancies: 1 Vacancy

Job Summary

At Freddie Mac our mission of Making Home Possible is what motivates us and its at the core of everything we do. Since our charter in 1970 we have made home possible for more than 90 million families across the country. Join an organization where your work contributes to a greater purpose.

Position Overview:

Freddie Mac is seeking a Tech Lead to drive technical execution and engineering excellence for one or more agile delivery teams. This role is ideal for a hands-on engineer who partnersclosely withDevelopment LeadsProduct Architecture Platform/DevOps and Security.

You will help teams deliver modern secure cloud-based solutions by setting clear technical direction breaking down complex problems and ensuring software is built to be resilient observable and maintainable in production.

Our Impact:

Own technical directionfor a feature area/service set aligning implementation to product goals and architectural standards
Lead design and architecture discussionsfor cloud-native services integrations and distributed systems; document decisions and trade-offs
Drive technical alignmentacross developers QA product owners and platform partners within an agile team environment
Mentor engineers through execution(pairing code reviews design feedback) to improve consistency maintainability and delivery quality
Serve as an escalation pointfor complex technical issues and production defects; lead root-cause analysis and remediation follow-through
Translate requirements into technical plans(stories tasks acceptance criteria and implementation approach) and help the team deliver iteratively
Break down ambiguous problemsinto actionable work identify dependencies and proactively manage technical risks
Promote predictable deliveryby improving estimation inputs reducing rework and ensuring readiness for sprint execution

Your Impact:

Champion code quality and standardsincluding secure coding practices testing discipline and performance considerations
Establish and reinforce testing strategies(unit integration end-to-end) and ensure automation is built into the SDLC
Improve reliability and operabilityby ensuring services include appropriate monitoring logging alerting and runbooks
Continuously improvedevelopment practices through retrospectives technical debt management and refactoring plans
Partner with Platform/DevOps teamsto improve CI/CD pipelines deployment automation infrastructure-as-code and developer tooling
Contribute to cloud architectureon AWS (or similar) ensuring solutions are secure scalable and cost-aware
Support production readinessincluding release planning change management inputs and post-deployment validation.

Qualifications:

Bachelors degree in Computer Science Engineering IT related field or equivalent work experience
8 yearsof software engineering experience delivering production-grade applications and services
Demonstrated experience acting as atechnical lead within agile teams(leading design guiding implementation and mentoring peers)
Strong knowledge of modern architectures: microservices event-driven systems REST/GraphQL APIs distributed systems fundamentals
Cloud experience particularly AWS (e.g. ECS/EKS Lambda EC2 RDS DynamoDB S3 IAM CloudWatch; CloudFormation/CDK/Terraform)
Strong SDLC skills: CI/CD automated testing code reviews branching strategies and release practices
Working knowledge of observability (metrics logs traces) and production support practices (incident triage RCA)
Excellent communication skills with the ability to explain technical concepts and trade-offs to both technical and non-technical stakeholders

Keys to Success in this Role:

Experience with containerization and orchestration (Docker Kubernetes)
Experience modernizing legacy systems and/or supporting cloud migrations
Familiarity with security and compliance expectations in regulated environments (e.g. data protection access controls auditability)
Experience with multiple languages/frameworks and a best tool for the job mindset

Current Freddie Mac employees please apply through the internal career site.

We consider all applicants for all positions without regard to gender race color religion national origin age marital status veteran status sexual orientation gender identity/expression physical and mental disability pregnancy ethnicity genetic information or any other protected categories under applicable federal state or local laws. We will ensure that individuals 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.

A safe and secure environment is critical to Freddie Macs business. This includes employee commitment to our acceptable use policy applying a vigilance-first approach to work supporting regulatory mandates and using best practices to protect Freddie Mac from potential threats and risk. Employees exercise this responsibility by executing against policies and procedures and adhering to privacy & security obligations as required via training programs.

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.

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Time-type:Full time

FLSA Status:Exempt

Freddie Mac offers a comprehensive total rewards package to include competitive compensation and market-leading benefit programs. Information on these benefit programs is available on our Careers site.

This position has an annualized market-based salary range of $154000 - $230000 and is eligible to participate in the annual incentive program. The final salary offered will generally fall within this range and is dependent on various factors including but not limited to the responsibilities of the position experience skill set internal pay equity and other relevant qualifications of the applicant.

Required Experience:

Staff IC