Data Architect III

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.

Under limited supervision, 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.

* Work 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. * Review and assess development design to ensure robustness, adherence to standards and processes, delivery of stable and scalable solutions, and that risk mitigation and controls are in place. * Collaborate with teams concerned with development, networking and/or project management to coordinate changes and support enterprise technology initiatives. * Identify core common data shared across the enterprise and participate in enterprise wide efforts to reach common understanding of those data. * Conduct studies of new technologies to provide more efficient and cost effective solutions Define and develop documentation of architectural designs, standards and processes that could affect applications under development or in production or state of data or business architecture. * Create performance metrics and traceability maps to determine the effectiveness of architecture solutions and facilitate governance. * Keep abreast of relevant architecture best practices. * Confer with business units and application development staff to understand both the business and technical requirements and to define architectural constraints.

**Education** * Bachelor's Degree or equivalent required **Minimum Experience** * 4+ years of related experience **Specialized Knowledge & Skills** * Subject area expertise and 5-6 years of hands-on experience in relevant area (Data Architecture) * Big data experience * Good communication skills (both written as well as verbal) * Ability to comprehend complex data architecture flows and identify the potential architecture gaps * Ability to work as a team/good teaming skills