Lead Automation Engineer

Playing an essential role in the U.S. economy, Fannie Mae is foundational to housing finance. Here, your expertise can help fuel purpose-driven innovation that expands access to homeownership and affordable rental housing across the country. Join Fannie Mae to grow your career and help people find a place to call home.

Job Description

As a valued colleague on our team, you will act as the team lead in designing and developing advanced solutions for information technology (IT) infrastructure environments, including coding, testing, and certifying technology platforms, software, and applications, as well as coach and mentor team members.
THE IMPACT YOU WILL MAKE

The Lead Automation Engineer 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:

• Apply your advanced skills and knowledge to develop solutions for application design and IT infrastructure components.
• Understand the end-to-end performance of IT platforms and account for interrelated functionality and processes when developing designs.
• Establish and maintain policies, guidelines, and standard operating procedures.
• Monitor performance and capacity metrics for technology solutions and lead the team in addressing identified issues

There is 1 opening for this position which can be based in our Reston, VA office.

THE EXPERIENCE YOU BRING TO THE TEAM

Minimum Required Experiences

• 4 years related work experience
• Strong knowledge of core AWS services- such as S3, EC2, CloudFormation, RDS,RDS,Lambda,StepFunctions,ECS,ECR
• General understanding of AWS networking (VPC, NACLs, SGs, routing , AWS Config)
• Fluency in AWS cli usage and AWS SDKs for Python/Java
• Python/Java knowledge sufficient to code for AWS SDKs.
• Excellent interpersonal skills with attitude towards solving problems for customers
• Technical and analytical skills for issues troubleshooting
• Ability to visualize and integrate solution through backend data to UI driven using Angular and NodeJS
• Ability to interact and guide junior developers with strong technical background
• Background on multi-cloud computing - AWS, Azure and GCP

Desired Experiences

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent

Qualifications
Active Directory (AD), Active Directory (AD), Amazon Web Services (AWS), Artificial Intelligence (AI), Atlassian JIRA, Authentication Management, Backup and Recovery (Software), Business Insight Skills, Business Process Management Skills, Calendar and Scheduling Tools, Cleaning and Transforming Data, Cloud Technology, Collaborating Cross-Functionally, Communicating in Technical Writing, Communicating Technical Information, Communication, Configuration Management (CM), Conflict Resolution, Coordination, Customer and Market Insights, Customer Relationship Management (CRM), CyberArk, Cybersecurity Analysis, Data Analysis, Data Analysis Interpretation {+ 60 more}

Education:
Bachelor's Level Degree (Required)

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For most roles, employees are expected to work onsite on a regular basis at their designated office location. In-office work cadence is determined by your manager. Proximity within a reasonable commute to your designated office location is preferred unless the job is noted as open to remote.

Fannie Mae is an equal opportunity employer and considers qualified applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability, age, sexual orientation, gender identity/gender expression, marital or parental status, or any other protected factor. Fannie Mae is committed to providing reasonable accommodations to qualified individuals with disabilities who are employees or applicants for employment, unless to do so would cause undue hardship to the company. If you need assistance using our online system and/or you need a reasonable accommodation related to the hiring/application process, please complete this form.

The hiring range for this role is set forth below. 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.

Requisition compensation:
141000
to
184000

Client-provided location(s): Reston, VA

Job ID: Fannie-JR1998

Employment Type: FULL_TIME

Posted: 2026-01-13T19:47:57