Senior Director, Data Engineering – Single-Family

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 homeownership and affordable rental housing across the country. Join Fannie Mae to grow your career and help people find a place to call home.

Job Description

In this compelling leadership position you will be accountable for developing data infrastructure and pipelines to capture integrate organize and centralize data while testing and ensuring data is readily accessible and in a usable state including quality assurance.

The Senior Director Data Engineering Single-Family is responsible for leading Data teams supporting the Single-Family business and for defining executing and implementing the strategy for structured and unstructured data in alignment with Enterprise Data strategy. This role partners closely with Enterprise Data teams and key stakeholders across the enterprise to deliver scalable secure and modern data capabilities that drive business outcomes.

This leader will be accountable for driving data modernization enabling AI and advanced analytics leading large-scale transformation programs and building strong partnerships across business and technology functions. The role requires a combination of deep data engineering expertise cloud and AI knowledge mortgage domain understanding and strong application engineering and delivery experience.

Key Responsibilities

• Define and lead the Single-Family data engineering strategy for structured and unstructured data in alignment with Enterprise Data strategy.
• Own execution and implementation of the data strategy ensuring delivery of measurable business outcomes.
• Lead the design development and modernization of scalable data platforms pipelines and engineering capabilities on AWS cloud.
• Partner with Enterprise Data teams architecture product engineering security risk and business stakeholders to align priorities and execution.
• Drive large-scale transformation programs spanning data modernization platform evolution legacy simplification and delivery improvement.
• Enable AI machine learning and unstructured data use cases through strong data architecture and engineering foundations.
• Establish and maintain strong data governance quality control and operational practices within a regulated environment.
• Oversee delivery across multiple teams and initiatives ensuring execution excellence transparency and accountability.
• Influence senior executives and stakeholders on strategy priorities investment decisions and roadmap direction.
• Lead organizational change and build a high-performing leadership team and engineering culture.
• Provide leadership beyond core data engineering by applying experience in application engineering software delivery and broader portfolio execution.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelors degree in Computer Science Engineering Information Systems or related field or equivalent work experience.
• Extensive experience in technology leadership roles with significant scope in data engineering enterprise data transformation and application development .
• Strong experience defining and executing enterprise or business-unit data strategies.
• Deep knowledge of modern data engineering including structured and unstructured data platforms data pipelines integration patterns metadata data quality and governance.
• Strong AWS cloud experience.
• Experience enabling AI/ML or GenAI use cases through enterprise data platforms and architecture.
• Experience leading large-scale programs and major transformation initiatives.
• Experience in data engineering as well as application development engineering delivery or portfolio delivery.
• Strong leadership communication executive influence and stakeholder management skills.
• Demonstrated ability to lead through change in a complex matrixed organization.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience in mortgage housing finance or financial services domains.
• Experience supporting Single-Family business capabilities or related functional domains.
• Experience in regulated environments with strong risk compliance and control requirements.

Skills

• Data Engineering Leadership
• Enterprise Data Strategy
• AWS Cloud
• AI / ML / GenAI Enablement
• Structured and Unstructured Data
• Application Engineering
• Large-Scale Program Leadership
• Transformation and Change Leadership
• Executive Communication and Influence
• Stakeholder Collaboration
• Mortgage Domain Knowledge
• Delivery and Portfolio Leadership

Leadership Expectations

• Drives strategic alignment between technology initiatives and business outcomes
• Builds strong cross-functional partnerships across enterprise teams
• Leads high-performing teams with accountability and clarity
• Navigates complexity and drives change effectively
• Balances innovation modernization risk and execution

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The future is what you make it to be. Discover compelling opportunities at most roles employees are expected to work onsite on a regular basis at their designated office -office work cadence is determined by your manager. Proximity within a reasonable commute to your designated office location is preferred unless the job is noted as open to remote.

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The hiring range for this role is set forth below. Final salaries will generally vary within that range based on factors that include but are not limited to skill set depth of experience certifications and other relevant qualifications. This position is eligible to participate in a Fannie Mae incentive program (subject to the terms of the program). As part of our comprehensive benefits package Fannie Mae offers a broad range of Health Life Voluntary Lifestyle and other benefits and perks that enhance an employees physical mental emotional and financial well-being. See more here.

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