Software Engineering Manager

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We are seeking an experienced and motivated manager for our Business Process Management (BPM) Center of Excellence IT team at Freddie Mac to lead design, development, maintenance, and support for platform and applications. This role is pivotal in driving end-to-end delivery of automation solutions while fostering agile mindset. The ideal candidate will be responsible for overseeing application development, managing technology stacks, ensuring strong stakeholder communication, optimizing application architecture, and ensuring governance and compliance.

Additionally, the Agile Development manager will lead a cross-functional team, guide vendor relationships, and drive continuous process improvements.

Enterprise Business Technology Office (EBTO) support multiple verticals by crafting and creating solutions to a variety of technology challenges. This support takes many forms, including delivering automation solutions by building and enhancing software applications using Business Process Management and Low Code Application Platforms required for Internal Audit, Legal and various other divisions at Freddie Mac.

The position focuses on software development leadership, agile delivery, technology architecture, and vendor management within a transformative environment.

• Leadership and Agile Delivery:
  The role involves managing and mentoring a development team, championing Agile best practices, and collaborating enterprise-wide to influence technical strategy and process improvements.

• Application Development and Technology Oversight:
  Responsibilities include overseeing automation solution development, technology stack decisions ensuring scalability and security, optimizing application architecture, and adapting to new technologies.

• Communication and Stakeholder Engagement:
  The manager acts as a liaison between software engineers and business stakeholders, ensuring clear communication, alignment on goals, and adapting to shifting priorities for successful delivery.

• Vendor and Compliance Management:
  The role includes managing vendor relationships to meet performance expectations and ensuring adherence to governance and compliance standards, alongside contributing to business automation roadmaps.

Your Impact:

• Lead a high performing team to design, develop and support enterprise-level BPM applications using agile development methodologies

• Drive complex integrations with downstream and upstream applications

• Drive the technical solution for the need, valuing simplicity and be willing to challenge technical constraints to achieve a proven design

• Be the executor as well as the transformative force behind the technical solution

• Accountable for the delivery of quality software, which is aligned with enterprise architecture, performance, maintainable and accurately deployed Lead a manage technical resources & teams

• Mentor the teams and establish positive relationships to drive solutions aligned with a strategic vision

• Constantly look for innovative ways to tackle sophisticated technical problems and designing the solution, not afraid to challenge the status quo

Qualifications:

• 8-10+ years of related and proven experience engineering incredible solutions

• 2 + years of management experience with direct reports

• 2-4 + years leading modernized development teams

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience; advanced studies/degree preferred

• Experience leading modern delivery teams, implementing SDLC projects

• Experience with BPM Tools (Appian or other)

• Experience with DB2, Sybase, LDAP/TAM, Active Directory integrations

• Knowledge of BPM tools platform management and implementation

• Enterprise Modern Tools:
  Jenkins, Cucumber, Atlassian Suite (Jira, Bitbucket), Git

• Experience developing software products in an Agile development environment and exposure to TDD practices.

• Experience in the Financial Services industry

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