Agile Development Director (Software Engineering Director) - Multifamily Technololgy

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Position Overview:

We are seeking a highly skilled Software Engineering Director with proven expertise in designing, building, and scaling data solutions. This role requires not only strong technical depth but also the ability to lead, mentor, and inspire teams of data engineers. You will be responsible for driving the technical strategy, design, and implementation of our data platform to enable advanced analytics, AI/ML, and business intelligence across the organization.

This role uniquely combines hands-on technical leadership with strategic thinking, requiring someone who can design & deliver solutions for today while building capabilities for tomorrow’s AI-driven landscape.

Our Impact:

The Multifamily Technology supports the multifamily business by crafting and creating solutions to a variety of technology challenges. This support takes many forms, including deploying new technologies such as web based solutions driven by AI and microservices, and maintaining critical underwriting and accounting applications.

Your Impact:

• Drive the technical vision for next-generation applications incorporating AI capabilities.
• Implement responsible AI practices and ensure ethical AI deployments.
• Communicate complex technical ideas clearly and lead teams towards shared goals.
• Lead the adoption of AI-powered development tools and practices.
• Perform code reviews to ensure code is rigorously designed, elegantly coded, and effectively tuned for performance.
• Balance technical leadership & savvy with strong business judgement to make the right decisions about engineering choices.
• Design solutions that balance innovation with reliability and security
• Build reusable components and platforms that accelerate development.
• Lead teams to build and integrate Gen AI solutions with enterprise platforms via API-based methods and standardized patterns.
• Transform how teams approach problem-solving through AI augmentation.
• Create a culture of technical excellence and continuous innovation.
• Strategically leverage outsourced engineering services to ensure timeliness, scalability, and maintainability of special projects.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s or Master’s in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or related field
• 15+ years of non-internship professional experience in software engineering, with at least 5+ years in data engineering
• 10+ years of experience in design, development, delivery and supporting distributed systems using Java, Spring, Spring Boot, Microservices, RESTful and GraphQL APIs
• 4+ years’ experience in developing and maintaining applications using Spark frameworks with strong programming skills in Python, Scala, and Spark ecosystem
• Expertise in processing and analyzing large-scale datasets
• Knowledge of Object-Oriented Design, data structures, and algorithms
• Experience with cloud platforms like AWS, GCP or Azure and their data services
• Strong knowledge of data fabric concepts (data virtualization, metadata-driven orchestration, semantic layers)
• Experience with near real-time data processing, stream-based integrations, and data serialization formats
• Experience with data modelling, and an understanding of common information models
• 5+ years' experience in Agile practices, building software in enterprise environment, with 1+ years in applied Gen AI or LLM-based solutions
• Experience with modern data analytics and AI/ML integration (SageMaker, Tableau, Snowflake Spectrum)
• Hands-on experience with CI/CD pipelines and modern DevOps/DataOps practices, including Git, Terraform, Jenkins, Pipelines, and Containerization
• Experience in designing, implementing, and maintaining scalable data pipelines and ETL/ELT processes to support enterprise reporting and analytics needs
• Experience in Data Governance discipline including Master Data Management, Data Quality Management, Metadata management, Lineage, and cataloging
• Experience with OAuth Implementation, API Management, Service Mesh, Active-MQ implementations (Queue/Topic) and Schedulers for batch jobs.
• Experience in database systems (RDBMS, GraphDB, Advanced SQL proficiency, MongoDB), Object storage (S3, Blob), Caching (Redis), and DataMart’s
• Experience solving complex problems, especially in algorithm-heavy or data intensive applications
• Knowledge in building RAG systems, data ingestion pipelines, and embedding-driven retrieval systems
• Excellent communication skills with ability to translate technical concepts to various audiences
• 7+ years in leadership roles managing cross-functional engineering teams including both data engineers and software engineers
• Proven experience influencing business outcomes through technical solutions
• Strong people skills to influence and engage stakeholders across all levels without direct authority
• Excellent problem solving, design thinking, and decision-making skills

Keys to Success in this Role:

• Deep understanding of modern software designs and emerging AI technologies
• Ability to align technical decisions with business objectives
• Ability to establish engineering practices for responsible AI implementation
• Being enthusiastic about technology and engineering discipline and applying it in building innovative distributed systems reducing complexity
• Taking ownership, acting with accountability and urgency
• Energized by challenges, demonstrate resilience, incredible technical analysis, and focus on doing the right thing
• Constantly exploring modern technologies and their practical applications
• Building consensus while driving technical excellence
• Ability to create & articulate application technical designs, decomposing designs to development tasks, sizing efforts and building roadmaps aligning with business goals
• Thriving in ambiguity and rapid technological change
• Passion for elevating team capabilities and sharing knowledge
• Balancing perfection with pragmatic delivery
• Self-driven, actively looking for ways to contribute, and knowing how to get things done

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

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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 $203,000 - $305,000 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.