Solutions Architecture Senior Technical Lead
McLean, VA – 3 Days Onsite – Monday’s and Friday’s remote
FTE, Permanent
$180,000 - $200,000 + Benefits + Relocation (If Required)

Job Description

At our company, 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.

As part of the company’s return to the office pilot, all employees, contingent workers and visitors must be fully vaccinated against COVID-19 in order to be on-site unless they have an approved accommodation.

Position Overview:

Are you a transformation champion? Are you passionate about technology transformations? Are you looking for a career that allows you to work with the latest and greatest technologies? Do you have demonstrable record of enabling enterprise change through architectural leadership?

The company's Multifamily Business Unit is seeking a portfolio lead to provide leadership and oversight associated with the Solutions Architecture for Business Applications! You will lead a number of highly visible initiatives to support Multifamily Business and Engineering teams! You will help your team through transformation into Agile Architecture and will align with the Modern Delivery methodology within our company.

Our Impact:

· Introduce the overall technical vision for a particular solution by defining and establishing the solution architecture

· Define High Level Solution Intent, target state architectures and their roadmaps for portfolio products by collaborating with Business Architects, CPOs, POs, CDL and other business and IT partners to ensure alignment in visions, goals and objectives

· Define and create reference architectures and architecture/design patterns to ensure consistent implementation of the architecture roadmaps

· Own and drive development and maintenance of detailed solution intent, product architecture for a responsible ARTs (information, application, technology, security and deployment viewpoints) that addresses functional and non-functional requirements and ensures alignment in implementation

· Plan and Develop Architectural Runway in support of new business Features and Capabilities

· Identify solution alternatives and/or new technologies to meet new business needs or tackle existing business concerns, such as customer experience, operational efficiency, performance and cost effectiveness

· Participate in pre-deployment, deployment and post-deployment activities to ensure successful deployment

· Participate in incident resolution process to help trouble-shooting, identify issue resolution and impact assessments

· Build Reference Application/Implementation for reusability and accelerated adoption of new architectural standards/patterns

· Develop/Maintain Application Design pattern catalog

Your Impact:

· Collaborate with Business Architects, Chief Product Owner, Product Owner, Agile Coach to ensure Solution and Technical Architecture creation for a given requirement/feature/initiative

· Collaborate with Enterprise Architecture and Risk & Security groups to ensure new and existing solutions are aligned with enterprise standards

· Partner with business and IT customers to drive product research, RFP/vendor interview from technical perspective and POCs activities for COTS solution in a buy decision and is responsible for communicating business cases for TAWG/ARB approvals

· Work with development leads on design brainstorming and design review to ensure alignment with architecture, patterns and standards

· Work with ART members to resolve implementation issues from business or technical requirements, design, code, testing, to technology/platform

Qualifications:

· Undergraduate degree or equivalent experience required; Advanced degree preferred

· 10+ years of experience in Solutions Architecture and Business Application development

· Extensive experience in Solution Architecture patterns such as micro-front ends, microservices, 12 factor applications etc.

· Prior Software development background

· 5+ years of relevant task management experience

· Hands-on and architectural experience with modern Cloud Native architectures is required, as well as demonstrable record of leading architects through organizational transformations

· 3+ years of relevant large-scale enterprise transformation experience as relates to architecture preferred

· Prior experience in the primary or secondary mortgage industry is desirable

· Deep knowledge of various enterprise level Platforms widely used in the industry preferred

· Keys to Success in this Role:

· Highly motivated and energetic self-starter with solid organizational and time management skills; demonstrable experience operating at high standards of quality and accuracy within a fast-paced changing environment

· Superb communication, leadership, and relationship management skills, that enable partnering with and influencing key team members in an open, collaborative environment at all levels in an organization

· Technical and Architectural leadership with knowledge of both legacy and modern cloud based distributed systems

· Excellent verbal and written communication skills and ability to succinctly present sophisticated subject matter, specifically translating technology problems/solutions to business team members

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We are working with the team at Freddie Mac, focusing on the Multifamily business unit. Multifamily are currently building a platform across the whole group,. With the team breaking this down into 4/5 blocks in total. Team will be providing an executive level blueprint of solutions for the Architects/Developers to put into practice. You will not own the delivery aspect, but will be looked upon as the guidance for how the solution is delivered. The team primarily has 2 labels, Senior Tech Lead (Director Level IC) This role has a broader level, Tech Lead (Sen Manager Level IC), The Team consists of 12 people, all report into the head of Architecture. Core skills sets to focus on; Candidates need to have knowledge about 12 factor principles, microservice based architecture, security patterns i.e. oauth etc, API Gateway/Service Mesh etc. Must be Thought leaders, who will be essentially providing a very strategic advice to product, business and delivery teams, sit between all stakeholders and have to have good communication Good experience with User experience is also a must as well as the ability to lead the product roadmap. Challenging the status quo and bettering what has been done previously. Not having the tunnel vision of doing what has been done previously. Someone with strong vision strategy, Analytical skills and Creation of patterns is very important. The Technology Stack consists of; Angular AWS – EKS MongoDB/PostgreSQL Apigee Springboot/Java DataLakes Containers – Kubernetes/Docker/Terraform

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Can you provide examples of your experience leading architectural transformations within large enterprises? How did you drive the adoption of new architectural standards and patterns?

The position requires hands-on experience with modern Cloud Native architectures. Could you discuss your experience in designing and implementing such architectures? What are some challenges you've encountered and how did you address them?

How have you ensured that the solutions you've architected align with enterprise standards and security requirements? Can you share a specific scenario where you had to balance technical innovation with security considerations?

Can you describe a time when you had to lead the architectural design review process? How did you ensure that the design aligned with established architecture patterns and standards?

Finally, the job description emphasizes technical and architectural leadership. Can you discuss a scenario where you faced resistance or skepticism from team members during a transformation or architectural decision-making process? How did you overcome these challenges and gain buy-in?

How many years experience do you have with 12 Factor Principles Methodology?

How many years experience do you have with Microservice Based Architecture?

How many years experience do you have with Security Patterns i.e. OAuth etc..?

How Many years experience in Senior Leadership leading Solutions Architecture do you have?

How many years experience do you have within Strategy and Design for Solutions Architecture?

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