Engineering Senior Technical Lead, WAN Modernization

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Position Overview:

Freddie Mac is seeking a Senior Technical Lead to drive the transformation of its Wide Area Network (WAN) infrastructure. This role will lead the design and implementation of a resilient, scalable, and cloud-connected WAN architecture. The position is critical to ensuring high availability, fault tolerance, and operational continuity across the enterprise.

Our Impact:

The Network Engineering team plays a foundational role in enabling Freddie Mac’s enterprise operations. By modernizing the WAN, we are enhancing the organization's ability to securely connect across cloud, edge, and core environments while ensuring compliance, performance, and resiliency. This transformation supports strategic initiatives across infrastructure, security, and cloud platforms, directly impacting business continuity and scalability.

Your Impact:

As the Senior Technical Lead, you will:

• Architect and implement a future-ready WAN infrastructure.
• Engineer resiliency strategies including redundancy, failover, and disaster recovery.
• Assist in managing carrier relationships and evaluating transport technologies.
• Lead capacity planning and support budgetary forecasting for WAN services.
• Collaborate across teams to align network strategy with enterprise goals.
• Mentor junior engineers and contribute to a culture of technical excellence.

Your leadership will ensure the WAN evolves to meet future demands while maintaining compliance and operational integrity.

Qualifications:

• 10+ years of experience in network engineering with a focus on WAN modernization.
• Expertise in MPLS, colocation strategies, cloud connectivity, and optical/fiber transport.
• Strong background in resiliency engineering, capacity planning, and disaster recovery.
• Experience with network tools evaluation and vendor collaboration.
• Familiarity with risk and compliance frameworks related to data and network security.
• Excellent communication and leadership skills across technical and executive teams.
• Strategic thinking and technical depth in WAN architecture and resiliency.
• Ability to lead complex initiatives while collaborating across functions.
• Strong vendor and carrier engagement skills.
• Proactive approach to capacity planning and budget alignment.
• Commitment to innovation, mentorship, and continuous improvement.
• Current Freddie Mac employees please apply through the internal career site.

Keys To Success In This Role:

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.

A safe and secure environment is critical to Freddie Mac’s business. This includes employee commitment to our acceptable use policy, applying a vigilance-first approach to work, supporting regulatory mandates, and using best practices to protect Freddie Mac from potential threats and risk. Employees exercise this responsibility by executing against policies and procedures and adhering to privacy & security obligations as required via training programs.

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Time-type:Full timeFLSA Status:Exempt

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 $161,000 - $241,000 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.