Software Engineer Technical Lead (Appian - Enterprise Business Process Management)

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Position Overview:


If you are a confident and self-motivated individual with a willingness to learn and adapt in a team environment, we are your next destination employer! Apply to join our Business Process Management (BPM) Center of Excellence IT team at Freddie Mac to lead design, development, maintenance, and support for our applications. In this role, you will be responsible for overall project delivery and operations. You will provide technical leadership and direction to a team of developers, while being very hands on at the same time.



Our Impact:


We deliver 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.

• Partner with Product and Business team members to ensure high quality product is developed and released into production.
• Work closely with Architecture, Stakeholders, Operations Partners, and Business Product teams to specify and refine solutions and practices.
• Evolve a DevOps culture to provide high quality, continuous operations, and ongoing support ensuring critical service level, customer requirements and financial objectives.

Your Impact:

• Serve as the BPM expert in the tool (Appian) setup/configuration/design, process and workflow usage, enterprise development, standards and best practices usage, training and delivery
• Act as a BPM technology lead for the project teams to address systems, software integration and compatibility issues especially in a multi-tenant environment, inclusive of providing an integrated solution covering custom applications, other packages, infrastructure aspects and progressing to cloud applications
• Analyze and support system requirements and functional specification to make design decisions, including independent judgment on any changes, enhancements, resolutions to roadblocks and identified defects
• Deliver and recommend BPM solutions that adopt the enterprise BPM and SOA architectures, patterns, policies and standards, guidelines and principles, procedures, and methodology, while working closely with the Architects to define/refine as BPM maturity progresses
• Build BPM reference implementations and integrations with other patterns,
• components and systems while working with the Solution Architects and other Technical Leads
• Leverage a collaboration technique for identifying reuse opportunities with other members of the team and execute on reuse objectives
• Design and implement complex enterprise integrations with industry standard technologies such as Databases, Active Directory, Security/Web APIs, Ping, Snowflake, Dremio and other internal systems in the enterprise Java based plug-ins development
• Conduct technical assessments and detailed design reviews, validating that the design follows the approved architecture
• Play a major role in evolving the BPM Center of Excellence
• Assist in furthering the BPM enablement efforts including the following and championing the BPM best practices for new applications
• Socialize BPM concepts within the Business Users/Stakeholders including conducting demos on the Enterprise Platform (Appian)

Qualifications:

• 8-10+ years' related work experience in Information Technology
• 5+ years of strong experience in design and implementation of Business Process Management based solutions is a must have; Having this with Appian BPM software is a plus
• Bachelor's degree in computer science, information technology, related field or equivalent work experience
• 5+ years of strong Java, J2EE experience
• 3+ years' experience in Angular, Java scripts, ansible
• Strong working knowledge on Kubernetes and Cloud
• Exposure to infrastructure, network and enterprise scale environments
• Practical experience designing and building enterprise and/or distributed systems
• Demonstrated strong knowledge of architectural principles and the designv implementation and operations of enterprise technology solutions.

Keys to Success in this Role:

• Experience in business process modeling as it integrates with Appian BPM
• Experience with systems and software architecture, and both SaaS and on-premises software delivery models
• Knowledge of information technology frameworks and methodologies, including Reference Architectures and Architecture Patterns
• Strong understanding and hands-on experience with Agile software development methodologies
• Experience in the financial services industry
• Demonstrated strong cross organization communication skills with both business and technical stakeholders to effectively communicate business benefits and influence technical decisions
• Proven ability to lead or team with a cross-functional developers/designers, and operations stakeholders to deliver product and project deliverables
• Proven ability to analytically address complex problems, process critical data, establish facts, and draw quality conclusions
• Ability to work well under pressure, some tight deadlines and with ambiguity on some projects

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


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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 $154,000 - $230,000 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.