Development, Tech Lead

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Position Overview

We are seeking a highly skilled and experienced Development Tech Lead who will be responsible for overseeing the development and implementation of innovative digital solutions working with the External Relations and Corporate Communications team. This person will be using Drupal, leading technical projects, and providing mentorship to development team members.

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Our Impact

The Corporate Business Technology Office enables business operational excellence through the flexible use of technology. The department provides ​IT strategic services (software development, enhancements, and production support) to support the needs of the Enterprise groups - External Relations and Corporate Communications, Finance, Human Resources, Internal Audit, Legal, Operational Resilience, and Regulatory Affairs. In addition to championing and empowering our business partners, Corporate BTO takes steps to improve efficiency and effectiveness across the organization. ​​

Your Impact

As a member of the Corporate BTO development team, this position will provide strategic services for the entire software development lifecycle of business-critical applications with a special focus on Drupal and the platform hosting external websites (freddiemac.com).

In this position you will collaborate with business teams to gather requirements, provide innovative solutions to solve business problems, and accurately estimate project timelines and resources. We need someone who can identify alternative solutions and/or innovative technologies to meet new business needs or address existing business concerns, such as customer experience, operational efficiency, performance, and cost effectiveness We will look to this person to serve in an on-going partnership with business users, maintaining knowledge of business operations, strategies, information requirements, and priorities.

You will handle hands on experience application development doing prototype and develop systems based upon requirements and architecture specifications, provide associated architecture, design, unit testing and implementation documentation, support the Build-out, setup and configuration of new and/or existing application infrastructure, participate in pre-deployment, deployment, and post-deployment activities to ensure successful deployment.

You will maintain and assist in operation support by participating in incident resolution process and root cause analysis to help troubleshoot problems, identify issue resolution, and impact assessments, provide technical support to junior developers and production support team, and support root cause analysis of complex production incidents.

Overall, you will continuously assess applications’ technical landscape and project activities to identify and help resolve risks and issues on a timely basis and engagement with management and business stakeholders is critical clarify technical risks, issues, vulnerabilities, and resolutions.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, or Engineering or equivalent experience; advanced studies/degree preferred.

• 8 - 10 years of strong Information Technology experience.

• Experience with full stack web development, PHP, and front-end frameworks.

• Experience with Content Management Systems (CMS) such as Drupal, Digital Experience Platforms (DXP) like Acquia, and Digital Marketing Technology is a big plus.

• Experience with Ping/Single Sign-On, Bitbucket pipelines, Content Delivery Network (Cloudflare, etc.), website monitoring tools (New Relic, etc.) and a solid understanding of DNS, TLS certificates, REST APIs, and caching strategies.

• Possess knowledge of website security, cloud, and network infrastructures with expertise in threat detection and breach identification.

• Demonstrate ability to monitor and analyze log files and network systems, collaborating effectively with the security team for timely resolution of issues.

• Understand complex business requirements and be able to convert to low level design, which is easy to understand for developers.

• Demonstrated ability to thrive in a challenging environment with changing priorities and to quickly adapt to new technologies and processes.

• Focused and versatile team player that is comfortable under pressure.

• Strong analytical and critical thinking skills, with the ability to identify root causes and develop effective solutions for complex technical issues.

• Ability to navigate through a large corporate environment while ensuring appropriate processes are followed.

• Ability to exercise independent judgment and creative problem-solving techniques in a complex environment using leading-edge technology.

• Able to provide expert insight into technical design documents.

Keys to Success

• Ability to work with multiple technologies

• Prioritize multiple projects in a portfolio

• Ability to suggest improvements

• Collaborate and build strong working relationships

• Strong verbal and written communication skills

• Communicate effectively within a matrixed organization

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

• Steadfast pursuit of continuous improvement opportunities

• Ability to mentor junior staff on technical and business skills

• Ability to guide the strategic implementation of reporting solutions

• Can easily shift focus between high priority tasks

• Provide mentorship to development team members

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 Mac’s 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.

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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 $138,000 - $206,000 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.