Description:
As the Single-Family Underwriting IT Team, we work on projects for critical Freddie Mac core applications. We engage with project team that’s comprised of business, analysis, testing, and infrastructure partners, all working together to enhance the capabilities of these systems.
Your Impact
Your work falls into four primary categories Project Leadership, software development, DevOps, and Application Support.
- Partner with Single Family Architecture to define technical solutions to complex business issues that align with target state architecture and conforms with corporate best practices.
- Provide technical guidance to the project team. Lead design and code reviews.
- Engage with business to discuss issues and document or explain technical solutions in a simplified meaningful way.
- Agile evangelist, work as a part of a high performing agile team and help others to comply with the department application standards and general industry based Java/JEE based application development principles, theories, concepts, documentation and techniques.
- Contribute and participate in design and code reviews.
- Understand Business Requirements, participate in Requirements Analysis, design applications based on System Requirements and Architecture, prototype and proof of concept as necessary, develop, unit test, create and help maintain an automation suite, and deploy application enhancements.
- Build Micro Services based solutions using Java/JEE frameworks, Docker and Open Shift, EKS/AWS platform.
- Comply with the department application standards and general industry-based Java/JEE based application development principles, theories, concepts, documentation and techniques.
- Build test automation suite to fully test the applications and features.
- Position requires strong analytical skills, software engineering process skills, and the understanding of XML and creation of XML test data.
- Position requires experience with GUI technologies such as Angular, strong back-end expertise with Spring Framework, MongoDB/Atlas and AWS services and technologies.
- Contribute in creating delivery pipelines for newly created Micro Services on EKS platforms.
- Support building Micro Service practices within development group with objective to create standards, tools and training other developers (GUI and backend systems).
- Support Freddie Mac’s core applications in providing Level 3 support, which includes providing fixes to production defects. Quickly evaluate defects, investigate cause and come up with solutions to remediate. Production support is a matrix-based organizational support, and the individual needs to clearly communicate progress and issues to matrix manager.
Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related discipline or an equivalent combination of education and experience from which comparable knowledge and skills may be acquired
- Minimum of 5-years of experience in software development; 3 or more years of experience working in Agile, Lean/Kanban, or Scaled Agile organization
- 5+ years of experience in development of Applications and Web Services using the Java EE, Angular & XML. Ability to independently perform all developer duties from Analysis to deployment to post-production defect fixing
- 3+ years of hands-on experience in Spring Framework (Spring Boot), CI/CD frameworks, Apigee, Autosys/Shell scripting
- Java presentation frameworks experience – STRUTS or Angular or similar frameworks
- Integration and design experience using Web Services /REST and EJB preferably on Kubernetes
- Strong backend experience to develop Data Layer using frameworks like Hibernate, JPA etc
- Experience in creating backend frameworks is huge plus
- Experience in using relational and no-SQL databases like DB2 & MONGO
- Strong experience in using Angular
- Hands-on test automation experience
- Proficient in RXJS for reactive programming within Angular applications
- Experienced in solving complex problems using Java, Spring Boot, and Angular
- Familiar with testing frameworks such as JUnit and Mockito for effective unit testing
- Experienced in building and consuming APIs, contributing to robust and scalable solutions
- DevOps and MicroServices - preferred
- Hands-on experience with Build and Deployment tools and languages – MAVEN, Gradle, ANT, Shell script, Jenkins, EKS - Preferred
- Mortgage and/or financial services industry experience a plus - preferred
- Prior Freddie Mac experience a plus - preferred