Development, Senior Director (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:

Our Development Senior Director is a key team member of our Corporate Technologies Team within Enterprise Business Technology Office. Our group is responsible for partnering with the Corporate Divisions to define strategies, roadmaps, objectives, and deliver capabilities that transform the business areas. This role will be responsible for a sophisticated portfolio of finance technology solutions for the Finance Division.

The Senior Director will assemble and lead multi-discipline technology teams, provide technical mentorship, direct vendor selection and management, and ensure alignment between programs, business partners, and EO&T teams and strategies. This position requires a strong communicator who can translate complex technical issues into easily understood communications that will influence executive audiences with varied technical backgrounds and capabilities.

Our Impact:

• Delivery of Finance solutions including implementation of a new Workday ERP tool, to optimally perform finance accounting, operations, analytics functions.
• Adoption of FHFA comprehensive Regulatory Reporting modifications, resolution of outstanding data quality issues, and modernization of diverse reporting platforms and data delivery techniques.
• Establishment of a common Finance data platform, to deliver data solutions that will enable Finance to achieve its mission of being a valued strategic partner to the business and the company, managing effective and efficient controls and processes, while being nimble and open to change. 
• Appropriate data environment to enhance our ability to effectively and efficiently perform financial accounting and reporting.

Your Impact:

• Collaborate with business and technology partners to define technology strategy and vision.
• Improve our portfolio by modernizing our technology and team capabilities, taking advantage of emerging trends.
• Lead a development team supporting a varied application portfolio through subordinate managers.
• Partner to build data platforms to enable self-service analytics and reporting
• Implement solutions to satisfy Corporate and FHFA scorecards.
• Lead the reporting and remediation of security vulnerabilities and application obsolescence.
• Assess architectural changes, technology platform decisions, and new technology selection and introduction for its impacts to the business.
• Establish operational objectives and work plans, and delegate assignments to subordinate managers. Prepare materials for Senior management reviews of objectives, deliveries, issues, and risks to determine success of operation. Involved in developing, modifying, and executing company policies that effect immediate operations that have a company-wide effect.
• Works on issues where analysis of situations or data requires an in-depth knowledge of technologies and organizational objectives. Implements strategic policies when selecting methods, techniques, and evaluation criteria for delivering results.
• Regularly interacts with senior management or executive levels on matters concerning several functional areas, divisions, and/or customers. Requires the ability to change the thinking of, or gain acceptance from, others in sensitive situations, without damage to relationship.
• Provide product support when issues are identified either by the Product Team directly or as triaged and raised by the Global Operations.

Qualifications:

• 15+ years of relevant IT, Finance, and management experience
• Bachelor’s Degree or equivalent experience; advanced/studies degree preferred
• Experience in directing a team of 25+ IT professionals and developing partnerships with multiple sophisticated business areas concurrently to deliver complicated technology solutions.
• Experience and knowledge of data migration from on-prem to Cloud platforms
• Experience with SaaS implementations
• Experience with Agile development and product teams

Keys to Success in this Role:

• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Strong financial and program management skills
• Challenge the status quo
• Ability to drive clarity in ambiguous situations
• Leadership inspiring and developing a high performing team
• Adaptability and Innovation

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.

A safe and secure environment is critical to Freddie Mac’s business. This includes employee commitment to our acceptable use policy, applying a vigilance-first approach to work, supporting regulatory mandates, and using best practices to protect Freddie Mac from potential threats and risk. Employees exercise this responsibility by executing against policies and procedures and adhering to privacy & security obligations as required via training programs.

CA Applicants: Qualified applications with arrest or conviction records will be considered for employment in accordance with the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers and the California Fair Chance Act.

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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 $216,000 – $324,000 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.

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