Kafka Engineer Technical Lead

At Freddie Mac, our mission of Making Home Possible is what motivates us, and it’s at the core of everything we do. Since our charter in 1970, we have made home possible for more than 90 million families across the country. Continue your career journey where your work contributes to a greater purpose.

Position Overview

As a Kafka Engineer Tech Lead, you will design, build, and support event-driven and automation platforms using Confluent Kafka, AWS AMQ, BMC Control-M, and Google Apigee. You’ll guide technical strategy, lead engineers, promote best practices, and collaborate with teams to ensure resilient and scalable enterprise solutions.

Our Impact

• At Freddie Mac, our mission of Making Home Possible is what motivates us, and it’s at the core of everything we do. Since our charter in 1970, we have made home possible for more than 90 million families across the country. Continue your career journey where your work contributes to a greater purpose.

Your Impact

• Lead technical expertise for Confluent Kafka and support AWS AMQ, BMC Control-M, and Google Apigee; establish platform standards and drive feature adoption.
• Mentor engineers, review code, make architectural choices, and encourage team development.
• Align business needs with technical solutions by collaborating with stakeholders and assessing third-party tools.
• Ensure reliability with monitoring, alerts, automation, and swift incident response.
• Improve processes, promote best practices, and foster learning of new technologies.
• Keep documentation up-to-date and ensure compliance with security and regulations.
• Provide 24/7 support for engineering tool reliability and efficiency.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s or Master’s in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field (or equivalent experience).
• 8+ years in platform engineering/infrastructure, including 2+ years in technical leadership.
• Proven expertise with large-scale Confluent Kafka and/or AWS AMQ deployments.
• Hands-on experience with BMC Control-M for enterprise automation and orchestration.
• Strong background in API management (preferably Google Apigee), including API security and analytics.
• Deep knowledge of AWS cloud architecture and hybrid-cloud integration.
• Extensive experience with infrastructure as code (Terraform, CloudFormation) and CI/CD tools (Jenkins, GitLab).
• Skilled in Python and Java programming/scripting.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management abilities.
• Relevant certifications (e.g., Confluent, AWS) highly valued.

Keys to Success in this Role

• Visionary Leadership: Sets clear technical vision and motivates teams for impactful results.
• Adaptability: Navigates change and complexity in enterprise settings.
• Collaboration: Builds trust across disciplines and manages diverse stakeholders.
• Results Orientation: Delivers measurable outcomes and exceeds service goals.
• Ownership & Accountability: Resolves issues proactively with end-to-end responsibility.

We consider all applicants for all positions without regard to gender, race, color, religion, national origin, age, marital status, veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity/expression, physical and mental disability, pregnancy, ethnicity, genetic information or any other protected categories under applicable federal, state or local laws. We will ensure that individuals 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.

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 $146,000 - $218,000 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.