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Since our charter in 1970, we have made home possible for more than 90 million families across the country. Join an organization where your work contributes to a greater purpose.\nPosition Overview\nAs a Senior Engineering Lead, you will be a hands-on technical leader within the Platforms & Infrastructure team in Enterprise Operations & Technology, helping a growing cloud platform organization raise its engineering maturity and delivery effectiveness.\nThis high-visibility role applies GenAI, AIOps, automation, and modern AWS engineering practices to reduce platform toil, remove operational delays, and design self-service, self-healing capabilities.\nBy codifying reusable patterns, automation frameworks, and guardrails, this role enables application teams to modernize with less platform friction while maintaining secure, scalable, and resilient outcomes in a regulated environment.\nOur Impact:\nEnterprise Operations & Technology enables Freddie Mac’s business through resilient operations, technology modernization, risk management, and platform innovation. Our teams deliver the capabilities, standards, and tools that help the enterprise operate securely, efficiently, and at scale.\nYour Impact:\nProvide senior technical leadership to a maturing cloud platform team by establishing reusable patterns, reference architectures, automation, and implementation standards.\n\nDesign self-service and self-healing platform capabilities that reduce manual intervention, ticket-driven support, operational delays, and recurring resiliency issues.\n\nDeliver AWS-native automation, serverless patterns, infrastructure as code, and code artifacts that create repeatable platform outcomes.\n\nAdvance AIOps, GenAI, and intelligent automation across cloud databases, shared platform services, observability, and developer enablement capabilities.\n\nEstablish engineering guardrails and operational patterns that improve reliability, scalability, security, compliance, and speed of delivery.\n\nServe as an independent technical voice, challenging assumptions and defending architecture decisions with clear reasoning, evidence, and practical implementation.\n\nRepresent engineering in leadership forums, contributing to roadmap planning, investment decisions, technology governance, and platform modernization strategy.\n\nQualifications:\n10+ years of related engineering, platform, or cloud technology experience; bachelor’s degree in a related field preferred.\n\nDeep AWS experience across cloud architecture, serverless services, scalable infrastructure, observability, and secure, resilient platform design.\n\nStrong hands-on proficiency with infrastructure as code (Terraform, CloudFormation/SAM, AWS CDK) and modern automation/scripting languages (Python, TypeScript/Node.js, Bash, SQL), with proven experience designing and operating CI/CD pipelines.\n\nWorking knowledge of cloud data platform technologies - including NoSQL and document databases (e.g., DynamoDB, MongoDB/DocumentDB), event streaming (e.g., Kafka/MSK, Kinesis), and emerging AI/GenAI services (e.g., Amazon Q, Bedrock) - with the ability to integrate them into secure, scalable platform solutions.\n\nExperience transitioning hosted, COTS, or vendor-managed capabilities toward AWS-native, serverless, event-driven, or cloud-native service patterns where appropriate.\n\nStrong understanding of DevOps, CI/CD, microservices, containers, Kubernetes, Docker, and related cloud-native technologies.\n\nProven ability to research, prototype, and deliver solutions independently while creating reusable assets that improve team maturity and execution consistency.\n\nStrong enterprise technology judgment, including security, compliance, governance, resiliency, data infrastructure, and hybrid or multi-cloud deployment considerations.\n\nKey to Success in this role\nOperates independently, moving from strategy to implementation without heavy direction.\n\nMakes defensible architecture tradeoffs across scalability, resilience, security, cost, compliance, and operability.\n\nInfluences highly opinionated technical stakeholders through prototypes, data, clear reasoning, and credible hands-on execution.\n\nElevates engineering teams through mentoring, design reviews, standards, and reusable assets.\n\nApplies a platform-as-product mindset, treating internal platform capabilities as customer-focused products with clear adoption, usability, reliability, and value outcomes.\n\nCommunicates complex platform concepts clearly across engineering, product, security, risk, and leadership teams.\n\nCurrent Freddie Mac employees please apply through the internal career site.\nWe consider all applicants for all positions without regard to gender, race, color, religion, national origin, age, marital status, veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity/expression, physical and mental disability, pregnancy, ethnicity, genetic information or any other protected categories under applicable federal, state or local laws. We will ensure that individuals 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.\nA 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.\nCA 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.\nNotice 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 www.BountyJobs.com and register with our referral code: MAC.\nTime-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.\nThis position has an annualized market-based salary range of $161,000 - $241,000 and is eligible to participate in the annual incentive program. 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