At Freddie Mac, you will do important work to build a better housing finance system and you’ll be part of a team helping to make homeownership and rental housing more accessible and affordable across the nation.
Position Overview:
We are seeking a diligent and proactive Business Analyst to join our dynamic team. The ideal candidate will possess strong analytical skills and a passion for data analysis. You will play a crucial role in interpreting and organizing data, primarily in JSON and XSD formats, to support business decisions and enhance operational efficiency. Your ability to multitask and lead multiple projects will be important to our success!
Do you have passion to help build a software application that helps more people achieve the dream of homeownership? Do you thrive in a fast paced, hands on, Data driven environment? If so, working as a Product Analyst, Senior on the Single-Family Underwriting and Risk Assessment (UWRA) team could be a good fit!
Our Impact:
Our team is responsible for optimizing Underwriting and Risk Assessment services to enable our customers to deliver efficient, improved borrower experiences when/where/how our customers choose, without the risk of repurchase, while enabling Freddie Mac to optimally assess and handle risk.
Your Impact:
Assists the Product Owner by updating mapping documents, business models and communicating with partners regarding prioritized user-stories and write acceptance criteria in conjunction with product team for each sprint, making sure each story aligns to our Objectives and Key Results.
Analyze sophisticated data sets in JSON and XML formats to identify trends, patterns, and insights that drive business strategy and decision-making.
Collaborate with team members to collect and document business requirements, ensuring alignment between business needs and technical solutions.
Develop and maintain organized data repositories, ensuring data integrity and accessibility for analysis.
Find opportunities for process improvement and efficiency enhancements, proposing actionable solutions based on data analysis.
Run multiple projects simultaneously, prioritizing tasks and deadlines to ensure timely completion of deliverables.
Maintain clear and concise mapping documentation of analysis processes, methodologies, and findings for future reference.
Enjoys troubleshooting a product/data question.
Works as a facilitator in meetings to bring tech and non-tech partners together to innovate and tackle problems
Use applications in various non-production environments to test and demo product features
Understands and proactively applies Modern Delivery practices. Actively participates in all agile ceremonies (stand-ups, planning, refinement sessions, demo’s, etc.)
Actively uses and is passionate about available technology to help build product. Applications include JIRA, Excel for pivot tables/data analytics, Word, PowerPoint, Project, Visio Justinmind wireframes
Understands/quickly learns the basic tenets of credit and underwriting technology at Freddie Mac
Works with technical delivery team members and Single-Family Operations to define technical requirements in acceptable criteria
Comfortable being responsible to create Business Operational Readiness documentation to support all releases.
Qualifications:
5-7 years of financial services work experience, preferably combined with agile software development
Bachelor's degree or equivalent work experience
Mortgage related experience preferred, and moderate to strong MS Office and Excel data analytics skills
Experience working with and using Agile/Scrum methodology with active participation in Agile ceremonies. Certification from Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) or Scrum Alliance preferred but not required
Strong presentation skills, including ability to facilitate meetings and work across Product teams
Comfortable learning, using and updating change control documentation per Change Management policies, procedures & processes
Support team in development process by working to define and test requirements based on product knowledge
Strong proficiency in data entities in context of SQL, JSON/XSD schemas, numeric, strings, enumerated, date and timestamps.
Ability to understand and document Data Relationships (such as one to many, many to many etc.), cardinalities of relationships, primary unique keys, constraints for data attributes of different types, understanding of NULL data, defaulting of data
Basic querying data skill in both relational and NoSQL databases (preferably Mongo DB) using database UI Client applications (e.g. Rapid SQL or any other, Compass for MongoDB database or similar). Perform as an active contributor throughout Product development by supporting both the Product Owner and developers
Ability to partner across the Freddie Mac organization to support Product team goals
Keys to Success in this Role:
Ability to work independently in a fast-paced environment and flexible in handling multiple requests and tasks with contending deadlines.
Ability to have fun as part of a high energy team that thrives with learning and innovation!
Ability to work in a matrix organization
Strong critical thinking skills to understand sophisticated functional interdependencies
Today, Freddie Mac makes home possible for one in four home borrowers and is one of the largest sources of financing for multifamily housing. Join our smart, creative and dedicated team and you’ll do important work for the housing finance system and make a difference in the lives of others.
We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity and inclusion at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, disability status or any other characteristic protected by applicable law.
Current Freddie Mac employees please apply through the internal career site.
Today, Freddie Mac makes home possible for one in four home borrowers and is one of the largest sources of financing for multifamily housing. Join our smart, creative and dedicated team and you’ll do important work for the housing finance system and make a difference in the lives of others.
We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity and inclusion at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, disability status or any other characteristic protected by applicable law. We will ensure that individuals with differing abilities 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.
CA Applicants: Qualified applications with arrest or conviction records will be considered for employment in accordance with the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers and the California Fair Chance Act.
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Time-type:Full timeFLSA Status:ExemptFreddie 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 $100,000 - $150,000 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.