Technical Architect-III

FANNIE MAE

THE COMPANY

Fannie Mae exists to expand affordable housing and bring global capital to local communities in order to serve the U.S. housing market. Today, our focus is on preventing foreclosures, making mortgages and rental housing as affordable as possible, and supporting the housing recovery. We are rapidly building and realigning our company to better serve the market as we support the Administration's Homeowner Affordability and Stability Plan.

Join our dedicated, diverse, high-performing workforce and put your unique talents to good use as we work with our partners to advance our nation's housing recovery.

For more information about Fannie Mae and our career opportunities, please visit www.fanniemae.com

JOB INFORMATION

Plan and design methods for various forms of technology, hardware, operating systems, applications, communications, and nodes on a network to operate in an optimized and integrated manner. Apply varied hardware engineering and software design theories to produce robust, integrated functioning of various systems and technology interfaces. Assess functioning of overall technology and communications systems to look for ways to upgrade and optimize systems in the future. May participate in projects to upgrade or install workstations, networks, platforms or enterprise software

KEY JOB FUNCTIONS

Work to define and maintain the architectural frameworks/patterns, processes, standards and guidelines for system development specifically around application architecture, integration architecture and IT Controls.

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 of system design, adherence to standards and processes, the delivery of stable and scalable systems, and to ensure that risk mitigation and controls are in place.

Collaborate with teams concerned with application development, networking and project management to coordinate changes and support enterprise technology initiatives.

Confer with business units and application development staff to understand both the business and technical requirements and to define architectural constraints on proposed application development projects or increases in scale of production software.

Research and evaluate new technologies to provide more efficient and cost effective backup, disaster recovery, or scale increase solutions for mission critical systems and applications.

EDUCATION

• Bachelor's Degree or Equivalent - required

• Design and implement integrated security system solutions that will ensure sensitive and classified data and systems are protected.


• Document and recommend information security architecture approaches to meet business unit and enterprise information and business modernization needs.


• Analyze and assess risks to information security and privacy at the enterprise, program, and system level, and recommend program and system changes to reduce security risks to information and information systems.


•  Knowledge of Incident Response, Application & Database Security, Endpoint Security, Network Security, Wireless Security, Access Management, Data Security, OSI Model, etc.


• Knowledge of security technologies including SIEM, web proxy, firewall, IDS, etc. Familiarity with SABSA, NIST, COBIT, ITIL, ISO 27001


• 5+ years experience with UNIX, Linux, Solaris and Windows


• Security/Network certifications a major plus (e.g. CISSP, CISM, SANS, CCNA, CCNP, GIAC)