Business Analyst / Product Owner (Mortgage)

Location: Chicago, IL (Onsite) Full-time

Please do not apply unless you have Agile Product Owner experience and a mortgage or financial services background. Overview Our client is seeking a Business Analyst / Product Owner (Mortgage) to lead systems enhancement initiatives end to end for a national secondary market first mortgage purchase program. This hybrid Product Owner and Business Systems Analyst role guides the strategy, prioritization, and delivery of technology and operational enhancements across loan acquisition, servicing, risk management, and investor reporting.

Responsibilities

• Serve as Agile Product Owner for one or more mortgage program systems supporting loan pricing and acquisition, loan custody, loan servicing, and data distribution to investors and stakeholders.
• Own initiatives end to end: build epics, write user stories, and manage and prioritize product backlogs, roadmaps, and sprints.
• Translate stakeholder needs into actionable development work, define functional requirements, and support estimation of project cost, time, and outcomes.
• Coordinate with external development teams, QA, business systems analysts, and the PMO to deliver increments of business value.
• Collaborate with IT architects and delivery teams to ensure system design meets business requirements and anticipates future needs.
• Manage stakeholder communication, including timing, messaging, and rollout of changes.
• Monitor deployments through to completion.
• Facilitate change management, training, knowledge management, and UAT validation activities.
• Identify operational, technical, and data-related changes that improve efficiency and quality.
• Identify risks and mitigation strategies for systems and operational initiatives.
• Prepare documentation and present proposals for business and technical initiatives for approval.
• Assist with vendor relationships as needed, including contract negotiations, support, and development initiatives.
• Fill gaps on the team as needed, delegating or doing the work directly.

Required Qualifications

• 8+ years of experience managing and supporting first mortgage financial systems, process integration, data integration, and reporting
• 8+ years of business and project implementation experience
• 5+ years of Agile Product Owner experience with real delivery accountability
• 10+ years of mortgage industry experience (origination, servicing, or lender-side)
• Strong business analysis skills and hands-on experience with Agile Scrum methods and tools
• Understanding of capital markets and wholesale lending operations, or affordable housing finance
• Understanding of software development, product management, and process improvement fundamentals
• Ability to understand technical architecture, data integration, and data management best practices, and to push back constructively on technical decisions
• Proficiency analyzing and presenting data related to systems and processes
• Expert interpersonal, stakeholder, and relationship management skills, with strong written and oral communication
• Ability to prioritize and execute in a high-pressure environment, with advanced leadership skills and a customer service orientation

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with API functionality, including working alongside developers on API integrations
• Databricks or data engineering project experience
• Banking or financial institution background beyond mortgage
• Experience with Microsoft Office Suite and Azure DevOps

This is a full-time position, onsite in Chicago, IL. Candidates must be US Citizens, Green Card holders, or H4 EAD / L2 EAD holders.

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