Enterprise Architecture - Business Architecture Manager

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.

As a valued leader on our team, you will oversee processes for designing and implementing components of technological structures, creating solutions with a process-driven view, and maintaining and/or updating existing structures.

• Define team objectives and outcomes. Enable success across boundaries. Help the team adapt and learn.
• Attract and retain great people. Know everyone’s capabilities and aspirations. Invest in the growth of others.
• Oversee processes for designing and implementing components of technological structures, creating solutions with a process-driven view, and maintaining and/or updating existing architectures.

THE IMPACT YOU WILL MAKE
The Enterprise Architecture - Business Architecture - Manager 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:

• Leads team in collaborating to understand the business problem.
• Drives agreement, based on the customer’s priorities, requirements, constraints, approach, principles, concepts, and expectations.
• Ensures team builds and documents a realistically costed, solution approach.
• Provides thought leadership on oversight and governance by setting expectations for quality practices and standards to realize the business solution.
• Promotes a cohesive build methodology so the solution can be transitioned to deployable applications in production.
• Provides coaching to team on complex solutioning and delivery.
• Holds teams accountable for mapping architecture and digital transformation solutions to stakeholder’s business goals.
• Leverages prior work, stakeholder insights, industry trends, and shares insights with team to apply.
• Supports their team in working with stakeholders (e.g., Enterprise Architects, Security Team, Development Team, Operations Team) and business sponsors to socialize both the technology solution and the project approach.
• Advises team on managing changes and facilitating feedback. acceleration, and prioritization.
• Holds teams accountable for sharing insights with rest of the architecture organization.
• Facilitate community events (technical meetups, webcasts, blogs, hackathons) and foster an environment for learning.
• Demonstrates deep industry knowledge of cloud and related technologies and drives employees to learn constantly.

THE EXPERIENCE YOU BRING TO THE TEAM

Minimum Required Experiences

• 6 years
• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent

Desired Experiences

• MBA in Finance and/or Capital Markets experience is preferred.
• Experience working with Front office & Operations.
• Prior experience with management consulting is a plus.
• Design thinking skills including hands-on prototyping, customer journey mapping, and persona development is a plus.
• Prior experience in a technical role within an architecture organization.
• Prior experience integrating systems across multi-cloud environments.
• Experience with at least one modern programming language (Java, Javascript, Python).
• Understanding of infrastructure and security requirements.
• Design thinking skills including hands-on prototyping, customer journey mapping, and persona development is a plus.

Skills

• Intermediate to advanced knowledge of the AWS services.
• Exceptional verbal and written communications skills.
• Demonstrated organizational and presentation skills.
• Demonstrated experience leading or developing high quality, enterprise scale software products using a structured system development lifecycle.

Tools

• Knowledge of at least one of JavaScript/Java/Python languages
• Experience with SAFe and Agile methodologies
• Skilled in Amazon Web Services (AWS) offerings, development, and networking platforms.
• Skilled in ARIS Express
• Experience using JIRA and Confluence
• Skilled in Microsoft suite of products

The future is what you make it to be. Discover compelling opportunities at careers.fanniemae.com.

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.

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 (Open to Remote). If you speak with a Recruiter, they will provide you with more information about the definition of this classification.

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.