Contract Software Engineering Manager Jobs in Sterling, VA

At Freddie Mac, our mission of Making Home Possible is what motivates us, and it's at the core of everything we do. 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.
At Freddie Mac, our mission of Making Home Possible is what motivates us, and it's at the core of everything we do. 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.
Position Overview:
We are seeking an experienced and motivated Software Engineering Manager to drive the strategic execution and delivery of Multifamily Data Analytics & AI platform, ensure alignment with business objectives, seamless integration, compliance with regulations, and operational excellence.
Our Impact:
Freddie Mac's Multifamily division advances affordable rental housing by purchasing apartment loans from a national network of lenders and transforming those loans into securities that attract global investors.
The Multifamily Technology Team plays a critical role in this mission by:

• Enabling Multifamily business teams to make faster, more consistent, and data-driven decisions by delivering trusted analytics, insights, and AI-enabled capabilities across loan acquisition, asset management, securitization, risk, and portfolio operations.
• Modernize data platforms and reduce manual dependencies to improve accessibility, operational efficiency, scalability, and confidence in the data used to support critical Multifamily business processes.
• Deliver secure, resilient, auditable, and well-architected platform capabilities that business teams can depend on to operate at scale, manage risk, meet regulatory expectations, and support long-term Multifamily growth.

Your Impact:
As a Software Engineering Manager, you will collaborate closely with Product Owners and business partners to deliver modern data platform capabilities that meet evolving end-user needs. You will lead multiple agile squads in designing and implementing high-performing, resilient data pipelines and AI-enabled data products, while applying strong software engineering rigor through scalable design, automated testing, and operational excellence. In this hands-on leadership role, you will drive continuous improvement and identify opportunities to simplify delivery, improve efficiency, and strengthen the overall quality of Multifamily data platform solutions.
What you will be doing:

• Lead multiple agile squads responsible for delivering modern data platform capabilities, including data pipelines, reporting, data products, platform modernization, and AI-enabled solutions.
• Provide technical direction across squads by guiding solution design, reviewing implementation approaches, and helping teams make scalable, resilient, and maintainable engineering decisions.
• Partner closely with Product Owners, architecture, business stakeholders, and cross-functional technology teams to align priorities, manage dependencies, and deliver business outcomes.
• Drive the design and implementation of high-performing data pipelines and data products using modern technologies such as AWS, Snowflake, Python, PySpark, SQL, and Snowflake Cortex.
• Create proofs of concept, demos, and prototypes to evaluate emerging technologies, validate new ideas, and accelerate adoption of innovative data and AI capabilities.
• Establish and reinforce software engineering standards, including scalable design, code quality, automated testing, peer reviews, deployment discipline, and operational readiness.
• Ensure solutions are designed and delivered with appropriate compliance, auditability, data governance, security, resiliency, and production support considerations.
• Oversee engineering production support by strengthening incident triage, root-cause analysis, observability, recovery practices, and continuous improvement of platform reliability.
• Manage, mentor, and develop engineering talent through coaching, performance management, hiring, delegation, and succession planning.
• Foster a culture of ownership, collaboration, continuous improvement, and accountability while identifying opportunities to improve delivery efficiency and engineering outcomes.

Qualifications:

• 8-10 years of related software engineering, data engineering, or technology delivery experience, including at least 2+ years of people management and leadership experience developing high-performing engineering teams is required.
• Bachelor's degree in computer science, information systems, or a related technical discipline, or an equivalent combination of education, training, and work experience; advanced degree preferred.
• Demonstrated experience leading multiple agile squads and delivering complex technology initiatives across data pipelines, reporting, data products, platform modernization, and AI-enabled solutions.
• Required hands-on or technical leadership experience with modern cloud and data platform technologies, including AWS, Snowflake, Python, PySpark, and SQL; experience with Snowflake Cortex or similar AI-enabled data capabilities is preferred.
• Strong background in data engineering, data platforms, data pipelines, data governance, data quality, and delivery of scalable data products for business and end-user needs.
• Experience establishing and applying software engineering standards, including scalable design, code quality, automated testing, peer reviews, deployment discipline, compliance standards, auditability, and production readiness.
• Proven ability to provide technical direction, evaluate solution options, guide architecture and implementation decisions, and create proofs of concept or demos to validate new ideas and emerging technologies.
• Experience managing engineering production support responsibilities, including incident triage, root-cause analysis, resiliency improvements, observability, and continuous improvement of platform reliability.
• Strong leadership skills, including hiring, coaching, mentoring, delegation, performance management, talent development, and succession planning.
• Ability to manage dependencies with vendors, Product Owners, architecture teams, business stakeholders, and internal engineering teams to deliver software solutions effectively.

Keys to Success in this Role:

• Provide practical technical direction that helps teams make sound design, implementation, testing, and production readiness decisions.
• Build and develop strong engineering talent through coaching, mentoring, delegation, feedback, and succession planning.
• Create a team environment that promotes ownership, accountability, collaboration, and continuous improvement.
• Maintain focus on production quality, platform resiliency, auditability, and operational excellence throughout the software delivery lifecycle.
• Communicate effectively with Product Owners, architecture partners, business stakeholders, and engineering teams to align expectations and remove delivery blockers.
• Use data, engineering metrics, and lessons learned from production support to improve team performance, delivery predictability, and platform reliability.
• Bring strong discipline across multiple agile squads by setting clear priorities, managing dependencies, and keeping teams focused on delivery outcomes.

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 - $232,000 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.