Lead Python & AWS Developer at Fannie Mae in Reston, VA

Lead Python & AWS Developer Location: Reston, VA 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 provide expert advice to and guide the team in building, developing, or designing functionality for a product, as well as guide and ensure the ongoing implementation, enhancement, or maintenance of existing products. The Lead Python & AWS Developer 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: Lead end to end design, development, testing, and operations for ServiceNow and AWS solutions, including custom applications, OOTB modules, and integrations across the platform and AWS. Serve as a technical expert by mentoring junior developers, guiding platform best practices, and ensuring high quality engineering across ServiceNow development and integration areas. Drive adoption of AI assisted development tools (e.g., GitHub Copilot, AI code assistants, ServiceNow GenAI tooling). Lead implementation and governance of ServiceNow Generative AI features (Now Assist, GenAI authoring, Virtual Agent enhancements). Apply modern platform engineering practices including ATF, CI/CD pipelines, scoped app development, and modular architecture. Champion secure coding and compliance across ServiceNow and AWS solutions. Partner with product owners and architects to define platform strategy, standards, and scalable design patterns. Lead advanced enterprise integrations using Integration Hub and custom REST/SOAP/API solutions. Modernize legacy workflows to improve UX and business automation. Provide thought leadership in AI enhanced development lifecycle (test generation, documentation generation, code quality automation) Support development of the design strategy for new products. Act as team lead on implementation process for new products. Identify opportunities for product improvements. Lead team members on the product lifecycle and ongoing maintenance. Ensure product strategy is in alignment with business objectives. REQUIRED EXPERIENCE 4 years of development experience in JavaScript, Python, Java, and modern web technologies Experience with AI‑assisted development tools and practices Strong Software Development background Experience developing solutions in the AWS cloud. Experience with database development (Oracle, MySQL, Sybase) Experience developing web‑service integrations (SOAP/RESTful) DESIRED EXPERIENCE Bachelor’s degree in computer science, engineering, or a related field. 10+ years of software development experience. 2+ years of ServiceNow development and support experience. Developer certifications in ServiceNow and AWS. Strong design, development, testing, and support experience, preferably with ServiceNow. Experience with HTML and CSS. Project management and team leadership skills. Strong written and verbal communication skills. Self‑driven individual with the ability to take initiative, demonstrate accountability, and assume responsibility. Ability to work independently with minimal guidance or supervision. Comfortable working in a fast‑paced, Agile-based team environment. Ability to work under tight deadlines. Ability to learn quickly and master new technical and business areas. Self-driven individual with ability to take initiative, demonstrate accountability, and assume responsibility Ability to operate and work independently with minimal guidance and supervision Comfortable working in a fast-paced Agile-based team development environment Ability to work under tight deadlines Able to learn quickly and master new technical and business areas Enterprise Platforms - Software Engineering - Lead Associate Target Salary Range: $141,000 to $184, 000 a year #LI-Hybrid Qualifications Education: Bachelor's Level Degree (Required) The future is what you make it to be. Discover compelling opportunities at Fanniemae.com/careers. 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