Lead Drupal Developer at Fannie Mae (Herndon, VA)

THE COMPANY
Are you interested in helping solve today's most critical housing challenges? In simplest terms, Fannie Mae serves the people who house America. We work at the heart of housing by providing reliable, affordable mortgage financing in all markets at all times, buying loans that banks and other lenders originate, so they can fund new loans. This gives more people the opportunity to buy, refinance, or rent homes and apartments. Creating these opportunities is what drives the people who work at Fannie Mae.

For more information about Fannie Mae, visit http://www.fanniemae.com/progress

JOB INFORMATION
Use modern tools, techniques, and methods to develop, modify, or update applications used by business units or infrastructure units. Collaborate with subject matter experts in those units to determine unit needs and business processes that are automated by the application. Participate in most or all of the steps in the software development life cycle to create and modify the software.

KEY JOB FUNCTIONS

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• Work with product owners and other development team members to determine new features and user stories needed in new/revised application.
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• Participate in code reviews with peers and managers to ensure that each increment adheres to original vision as described in the user story and all standard resource libraries and architecture patterns as appropriate.
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• Serve as a technical lead for an Agile team and actively participate in all Agile ceremonies. Participate in all team ceremonies including planning, grooming, product demonstration and team retrospectives.
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• Leverage Fannie Mae DevOps tool stack to build, inspect, deploy, test and promote new or updated features.
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• Respond to trouble/support calls for applications in production in order to make quick repair to keep application in production.
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• Create or Update documentation in support of development efforts. Documents may include detailed specifications, implementation guides, architecture diagrams or design documents.
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• Mentor less experienced staff.
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• Set up and configure a continuous integration environment.
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• Intermediate proficiency in unit testing as well as coding in 1-2 languages (e.g. Java, etc).
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• Intermediate proficiency in Object Oriented Design (OOD) and analysis.
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• Intermediate proficiency in application of analysis/design engineering functions.
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• Intermediate proficiency in application of non-functional software qualities such as resiliency, maintainability, etc.
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• Intermediate proficiency in applying behavior-driven testing techniques.
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EDUCATION

Bachelor's Degree or equivalent required

MINIMUM EXPERIENCE

2+ years of related experience

SPECIALIZED KNOWLEDGE & SKILLS

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• Minimum 2+ years of Drupal hands-on development experience.
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• Proficient in the maintenance and administration of Drupal modules and sites.
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• Experience integrating open source and third-party applications into existing systems.
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• Familiarity with source control systems such as GIT and Subversion.
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• Results-oriented, reliable, able to work under pressure.
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• Ability to communicate technical ideas to business users and other teams.
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• Ability to both collaborate with team members and to work independently.
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• Eager to embrace current and emerging web technologies.
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• JavaScript/AngularJS (jQuery for front-end).
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• REST Web Services.
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• Experience with SSO technologies (SAML2.0).
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• Experience with Agile Projects (JIRA or Rally experience if possible).
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EMPLOYMENT               
As a condition of employment with Fannie Mae, any successful job applicant will be required to pass a pre-employment drug screen and to successfully complete a background investigation.

Fannie Mae is an Equal Opportunity Employer.

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