Agile Development Manager (Hybrid - 3 Days in Office)

At Freddie Mac, you will do important work to build a better housing finance system and you’ll be part of a team helping to make homeownership and rental housing more accessible and affordable across the nation. Position Overview:Are you someone who seeks to be impactful, innovative and collaborative? Do you wish to lead the technology modernization that directly contributes to the stability of FRE systems that play key role in home ownership of the country? Do you like to evangelize the new technologies, and influence in adopting them and enjoy the satisfaction of the positive impact? If so, we may have what you are looking for. Apply to join Freddie Mac’s Single Family New Technology Adoption group (SFNTA)!As an Agile Development Manager, you will enable SFNTA product teams to be successful. Our product teams are made up of versatile individuals who thrive in a challenging work environment and enjoy applying their problem-solving skills. The product teams are setup to build and enhance technology products, and the role will ensure the built products are delivered per the plan and adopted by SFPS teams. The manager actively manages dependencies with parties outside the team, manages releases, and manages complete lifecycle of adoption by SFPS clients. This role will also, has additional administrative responsibilities of vendor, budget management, and resource management. Key need for the role is technology acumen to guide and coach different levels of DevOps and Developers in the team.Our Impact:SFNTA is key strategic group in SF BTO, that provides application modernization and cloud migration strategy, put technology roadmaps, evaluate and build accelerators & tools to enable modernization of Single-Family applications. It partners with Infrastructure teams to improve delivery efficiencies by introducing new technologies and removing bottlenecks. It improves developer experience and employee satisfaction by providing developer friendly tools, implementation patterns, training, and mentor.Your Impact:NTA portfolio consists of wide variety of Development, Testing and DevOps tools. As a Development Manager for the team, with strong technical knowledge and background, provide servant leadership to SFNTA team. Support team in delivery, release and people management aspects.Understand the BTO teams need of application tools and DevOps tools, support SFNTA team product owners and CPO do deliver NTA products, and partner with IT teams to influence them in providing platform support to host NTA products.Develop and maintain the working relationships, with SFPS BTO teams to educate and influence them in adopting the rolled out SFNTA products.Supervise a team of developers and a product analyst. As a manager, mentor and grow the direct reports. To meet the fast turnaround expectations from our customers, build and maintain a fast-paced delivery team that builds high quality products and provides outstanding support. Create an open minded and collaborative environment for employees to flourish but with clear accountability. Set and manage the objectives to align with department goals. Ensure that agile processes are followed for smooth, efficient, and predictable delivery of releases.Qualifications:Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science or Information Technology10+ years of overall experience in Software Development or IT Engineering3+ years of experience in DevOps and Automation using cloud technologies preferably AWS,Docker, OpenShift, Kubernetes/Amazon EKS, etc3+ years of experience in Application development using Java or JavaScript or any modernlanguage3+ years of experience in Agile Methodology3+ years of experience in people managerKeys to Success in this Role:This is not a project management role and key to success is being a technologist with leadership skills.Build strong partnerships with the application teams and IT teams to drive tactical implementations.Strong communication and influencing skills.Ability to work well with the application teams and people with varying degrees of technical expertise.Ability to adapt to a constantly changing environment.Attract, recruit, retain, and develop top talent. Provides direct supervision to all levels of a development team, responsible for their career development, performance management, coaching and mentoring.Deep understanding of FRE application modernization tools, platforms, architecture and processes.Active technology learner who can understand and converse fluently with IT personnel and developers.Technical leadership to influence BTO teams and IT teams and seek win-win solutions.Current Freddie Mac employees please apply through the internal career site.Today, Freddie Mac makes home possible for one in four home borrowers and is one of the largest sources of financing for multifamily housing. Join our smart, creative and dedicated team and you’ll do important work for the housing finance system and make a difference in the lives of others.We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity and inclusion at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, disability status or any other characteristic protected by applicable law. We will ensure that individuals with differing abilities 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.Notice to External Search Firms: Freddie Mac partners with BountyJobs for contingency search business through outside firms. Resumes received outside the BountyJobs system will be considered unsolicited and Freddie Mac will not be obligated to pay a placement fee. If interested in learning more, please visit and register with our referral code: MAC.Time-type:Full timeFLSA Status:ExemptFreddie 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 $153,000 - $229,000 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.Job SummaryJob number: JR12236Date posted : 2024-03-22Profession: TechnologyEmployment type: Full time