Agile Coaching, Sr (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:

Do you have passion for understanding customer needs and using technology to deliver value and thrive in a fast-paced and constantly evolving environment? If you enjoy working with a Modern Delivery team of varying skills to collectively discover new opportunities to delight customers, a role on the Credit Portfolio Management (CPM) CRT SEC program within the Single Family could be a fit for you!

Our Impact:

Freddie Mac is an industry leader building the future of technology for the housing/finance industry.

Our CRT SEC Modern Delivery team working on Cloud Native applications helps enable and transform Freddie Mac's business. We provide systems and technology that benefit the enterprise, customers, and our business partners.

Your Impact:

Our ideal candidate will have significant impact in our Modern Delivery team and in our company. You will guide and lead the team through the delivery of software and services, while embracing and promoting the Agile attitude.

You will partner with Product Management, Product Owners and others to define the mission value to help ensure strategy and execution alignment. You will also:

• Establish cadence, facilitate, and drive the agile ceremonies such as Daily Standup, Sprint and Iteration Planning, Demo, and Retrospective
• Facilitate impediment removal from the Scrum team
• Facilitate production implementation plan walkthrough and production deployment activities.
• Collaborate with the communities of practice and identify and deploy important metrics to enable continuous improvement across the development teams
• Identify and drive the implementation of process improvements that significantly advance quality of the product
• Coach Scrum Team on Agile Practices and attitudes
• Generate Agile mindset in staff and teams through conversations, coaching, and mentoring
• Support Product Owner and development team on release planning and implementation
• Foster close cooperation across all team members teams, encourage cross-training and supporting each other.
  
  

Qualifications:

• Minimum Certified Scrum Coach (CSM) or Agile Certified Scrum Coach (PMI-ACP) required
• At least five years of direct experience in one or more aspects of Information Technology (Software design/ development, IT Architecture or other related IT areas)
• Five or more years of explicit experience as an Agile Scrum Coach/Coach of an Agile delivery team, preferably in a variety of situations including large organizations
• Excellent communication skills
• Effective facilitation skills
• Effective coaching and mentoring skills
• Ability to thrive in a highly ambiguous, fast paced environment where priorities shift rapidly
• Strong problem-solving skills and ability to identify effective solutions
• Effective influence, collaboration, and negotiation skills
• Hands-on JIRA tool experience preferred
  
  

Keys to Success in this Role:

• Passionate and take pride in owning your work
• Ability to understand and communicate well with a passion to get the job done
• Open minded to embrace new process, technologies, and culture
• Ready to take on any kind of work to help drive things forward
• Innovative in providing solutions
  
  

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.

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 $118,000 - $178,000 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.