Company Description

At Fannie Mae, futures are made. The inspiring work we do helps make a home a possibility for millions of homeowners and renters. Every day offers compelling opportunities to use tech to tackle housing’s biggest challenges and impact the future of the industry. You’ll be a part of an expert team thriving in an energizing, flexible environment. Here, you will grow your career and help create access to fair, affordable housing finance.

Job Description

As a valued contributor to our team, you will consult with management on the development of processes and procedures for designing and implementing components of technological structures. In this role, you will create solutions with a process-driven view, as well as maintain and/or update existing structures.

THE IMPACT YOU WILL MAKE
The Cloud - Architecture - Principal role will offer you the flexibility to make each day your own, while working alongside people who care so that you can deliver on the following responsibilities:

• Determine the needs of diverse and complex customer groups by applying understanding and resolution of complex or unusual business problems.
• Translate functional requirements into technical solutions, and may lead matrixed teams.
• Oversee existing structures, as well as the implementation and ongoing monitoring of governance.
• Perform modeling, analysis, and planning to solve technical business problems and identify opportunities and risks.

Qualifications

THE EXPERIENCE YOU BRING TO THE TEAM

Minimum Required Experiences & Skills

• 8 years of experience leading architecture governance processes such as technology selection and architecture review boards, implementing Cloud (AWS) solutions, building proofs-of-concept, and migrating large-scale workloads to the cloud using native solutions.
• 5+ years of experience securing enterprise applications on public cloud service providers, including IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS, and performing Application Security assessments.
• 5+ years' experience in applying enterprise integration patterns using API gateways and cloud-native services, architecting for multi-resiliency using the enterprise patterns.
• 4+ years' experience with Enterprise Data on the cloud, building architecture supporting analytical & machine learning tools & workloads using Apache Spark, Flink, SageMaker, or equivalent platforms combined with knowledge of distributed data architecture concepts such as sharding, caching, and stream-processing using Kafka or Kinesis to hydrate data lakes.
• 2+ years of experience developing and implementing layered security architecture, architecture designs to remediate vulnerabilities, and securing applications in the cloud.
• 7+ years of experience managing stakeholders, including negotiating, influencing, and persuading others. Excellent collaboration skills, including written and verbal communication skills.
• 5+ years of experience as an Enterprise or Solution Architect with a development background using Python or Java on the cloud.
• 5+ years of experience in AWS services such as EC2, ECS Fargate, Lambda, PostgreSQL, Redshift, Eventbridge, SageMaker, Athena, Glue, VPC, CloudFront, etc., and experience using APIs for developing or programming software.
• 5+ years of experience designing systems to control, monitor, and manage large, complex, and sometimes geographically dispersed IT infrastructure and applications to optimize IT service delivery.

Desired Experiences & Skills

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent
• 5+ years of experience in stakeholder and vendor management
• 2+ years of experience working with streaming platforms such as Kinesis or Kafka and Containerization technologies such as Docker, Kubernetes or Fargate
• Working knowledge of information architecture methodologies; enterprise-wide data architecture for designing and building data lakes, data warehouses, data marts, and BI reporting databases.
• Hands-On Architect with an ability to build Rapid Prototypes, Reusable code, and Frameworks.
• Experience in one or many programming languages, data science tools and high performance computing platforms. Expertise in using AWS tools.
• Experience with developing architectures for complex solutions and presenting to leadership succinctly.
• Skilled in presenting information and/or ideas to an audience in a way that is engaging and easy to understand.
• Knowledge of Machine Learning concepts such as KNN, Random Forest, Naïve Bayes, and Neural Networks and deploying them on Sagemaker is a plus.
• Apply advanced concepts to translate and execute business direction & strategy, assess its impact on organization, process, data, and technology, identify actionable change needed, and conceptual conceptualize digital products.
• 3+ years of experience providing business, data, application, and technology thought leadership in discussions with IT delivery teams and business partners
• 3+ years of experience translating security control requirements into technical guardrails, risk assessment, and management, including evaluating and designing controls, conducting impact assessments, and remediating risks.
• 3+ years of experience decomposing monolithic applications into micro-services using 12-factor application principles.
• Understanding of DevOps pipeline design, including infrastructure as code (e.g., Terraform), CI/CD (e.g., Gitlab), and package repositories (e.g., Artifactory)
• 5+ years of experience in presenting to Executive management with visual concepts that are easy and engaging with the ability to frame ideas as systems, analyzing inputs, outputs, and process into production-ready applications.
• 4+ years’ experience related to Risk Assessment and Management, including evaluating and designing controls, conducting impact assessments, identifying control gaps, remediating risk, etc.
• 3+ years’ experience gathering accurate information to explain concepts and answer critical questions, reviewing and selecting strategic options, and determining resources to meet the defined objectives.
• Experience in the Financial services industry is a plus.
• Experience integrating Salesforce with the AWS platform is a plus.
• AWS Certifications: Solution Architect Professional, Data Analytics - Specialty, Security - Specialty, Database - Specialty, Machine Learning – Specialty.

Additional Information

Job Title: Enterprise Architecture - Architecture - Principal

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Fannie Mae is primarily a hybrid company. We embrace flexibility for our employees while providing office space for in-person work and collaboration. This role is classified as Hybrid. If you speak with a Recruiter, they will provide you with more information about the definition of this classification.

Fannie Mae is an Equal Opportunity Employer, which means we are committed to fostering a diverse and inclusive workplace. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, religion, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, personal appearance, protected veteran status, disability, age, or other legally protected status. For individuals with disabilities who would like to request an accommodation in the application process, email us at careers_mailbox@fanniemae.com.

The hiring range for this role is set forth above. Final salaries will generally vary within that range based on factors that include but are not limited to, skill set, depth of experience, certifications, and other relevant qualifications. This position is eligible to participate in a Fannie Mae incentive program (subject to the terms of the program). As part of our comprehensive benefits package, Fannie Mae offers a broad range of Health, Life, Voluntary Lifestyle, and other benefits and perks that enhance an employee’s physical, mental, emotional, and financial well-being. See more here.

The hiring range for this role is set forth on each of our job postings located on Fannie Mae's Career Site. Final salaries will generally vary within that range based on factors that include but are not limited to, skill set, depth of experience, certifications, and other relevant qualifications. This position is eligible to participate in a Fannie Mae incentive program (subject to the terms of the program). As part of our comprehensive benefits package, Fannie Mae offers a broad range of Health, Life, Voluntary Lifestyle, and other benefits and perks that enhance an employee’s physical, mental, emotional, and financial well-being. See more here.