Architect IV

Fannie Mae serves the people who house America. We are a leading source of financing for mortgage lenders, providing access to affordable mortgage financing in all markets at all times. Our financing makes sustainable homeownership and workforce rental housing a reality for millions of Americans.

Plan and design methods for the optimization and integration of various forms of technology systems or policies and high level principals. Apply varied engineering and design theories to produce robust, integrated functioning of various systems, technology interfaces, and/or overarching information policies and high level principles. Assess functioning of overall technology and communications systems and end-to-end processes and to look for ways to upgrade and optimize systems and processes in the future. Work across the architecture and technology organization to ensure effective implementation, architecture compliance and conflict resolution. May participate in projects to upgrade or install workstations, networks, or software, or to assess and optimize overall functioning of technology, data and processes.

* May serve as lead or technical expert to define and maintain the architectural frameworks/patterns, processes, standards and guidelines related to systems, business or data architecture. * Define core and support technology, data entities, business functions and/or subject areas that transcend organizational and functional boundaries. * Provide technical and architectural subject matter expertise to the various development teams including communicating architectural decisions and mentoring other technical staff around the various development technologies and decisions. * Identify core common data shared across the enterprise and participate in enterprise wide efforts to reach common understanding of those data. * May serve as lead, technical expert or project manager to team(s) concerned with development, networking and/or project management to coordinate changes and support enterprise technology initiatives. * Conduct studies of new technologies to provide more efficient and cost effective architecture solutions * Oversee multiple projects in order to preserve the architectural vision and protect stakeholder interests as well as to meeet operational and financial reporting requirements * Confer with business units and application development staff to understand both the business and technical requirements and to define architectural constraints * Create performance metrics and traceability maps to determine the effectiveness of architecture solutions and facilitate governance. Keep abreast of relevant architecture best practices. * May review work of other team members and mentor junior architects

**Education** * Bachelor's Degree or equivalent required **Minimum Experience** * 6+ years of related experience **Specialized Knowledge & Skills** * 6+ years of hands-on Information Systems design and development * 5+ years in defining current and target state architectures, transition architectures and roadmaps * 6 years with Enterprise Architecture frameworks like TOGAF, DoDAF, FEAF etc. * 5 years using Architecture Modeling tools like MEGA HOPEX, IBM System Architect, Troux, Rational Software Architect etc. * 3 years using industry standard notations such as UML, BPMN etc. * 6 years of hands-on Java design and development * 5 years implementing Java open source frameworks (i.e., Spring, Hibernate etc.)