Business Analyst - LOS Mortgage Technology
Summary
Business Analyst at Verus Mortgage Capital acting as the bridge between mortgage operations, business stakeholders, and technology teams — leading discovery, building business cases, and delivering automation and AI-driven improvements across the non-Agency loan origination lifecycle, including a new loan acquisition platform. Core focus areas: ServiceNow, AI/LLM automation, workflow mapping, and
- Partner with business leaders and technology teams to identify opportunities to improve, simplify, automate, or eliminate manual processes across the mortgage lifecycle within the Loan Origination Systems.
- Lead discovery discussions focused on business goals and desired outcomes rather than simply documenting existing processes.
- Evaluate opportunities to leverage ServiceNow, AI, automation, and other products and emerging technologies to solve business challenges.
- Assess current-state processes and recommend scalable, technology-driven solutions that improve efficiency, accuracy, and the user experience.
- Develop business cases and help evaluate the potential value, feasibility, and impact of proposed technology initiatives.
- Bachelor's degree in Business, Finance, Information Systems, Data Analytics, Computer Science, or related field required.
- 5+ years of experience as a Business Analyst, Project Analyst, Product Analyst, Systems Analyst, or related role.
- 3+ years of mortgage industry experience required, preferably within non-Agency, Non-QM, Jumbo, Correspondent, Wholesale, or Capital Markets environments.
- Experience leading or supporting technology implementation projects.
- Experience working with workflow automation, AI, machine learning, large language models, or intelligent process automation preferred.
- Strong understanding of mortgage origination, underwriting, loan operations, secondary marketing, or capital markets functions.
- Experience with Agile, Scrum, or hybrid project management methodologies preferred.
- Proficiency with business analysis tools, workflow mapping, and documentation platforms.
Key Competencies:
- Loan Origination Process Analysis: Evaluates loan origination and acquisition workflows, identifies process gaps and inefficiencies, and recommends scalable technology solutions that improve speed, accuracy, and operational efficiency.
- Business Analysis & Discovery: Partners with mortgage operations and business teams to understand goals, uncover pain points, and translate business needs into clear requirements for loan origination system enhancements.
- Mortgage Product & Program Knowledge: Understands mortgage products, lending guidelines, and operational requirements and evaluates how new or changing programs impact loan origination processes, workflows, and technology.
- AI & Automation Acumen: Identifies practical opportunities to leverage AI and automation to streamline loan origination processes, reduce manual work, improve accuracy, and support better decision-making.
- Requirements & Solution Design: Translates mortgage business requirements, product guidelines, and operational needs into user stories, workflows, functional requirements, and scalable technology solutions.
- Strategic Problem Solving: Looks beyond existing processes to identify better ways to support loan acquisition and origination, balancing business objectives, technology capabilities, and operational requirements.
- Project & Stakeholder Management: Builds strong partnerships across mortgage operations, product, technology, and leadership teams to prioritize initiatives and drive system enhancements from discovery through implementation.
- Change Management & Adoption: Supports testing, implementation, training, and adoption of loan origination system enhancements and new technology-enabled processes.
How This Role Demonstrates Our Values:
- Integrity: Ensures loan origination system enhancements, automation, and AI solutions align with lending guidelines, regulatory requirements, and responsible business practices.
- Collaboration: Partners across mortgage operations, product, technology, and leadership teams to understand business needs and deliver solutions that improve the loan origination process.
- Excellence: Drives continuous improvement by developing thoughtful, scalable solutions that increase efficiency, accuracy, and effectiveness across loan acquisition and origination.
- Critical Curiosity: Challenges existing processes, asks the right questions, and explores technology, AI, and automation to identify better ways to support mortgage products, programs, and operations.
- Competitive compensation package, including base salary and performance-based bonus opportunities
- 401(k) plan with 100% company match up to 4%
- Comprehensive health coverage: medical, dental, vision, HSA, and FSA options
- Generous paid time off: 20 days PTO, company holidays, and sick time
- Paid parental leave
- Company-paid life insurance and disability coverage
- Employee Assistance Program (EAP): mental health, financial, and wellness support
- Professional development: tuition reimbursement and growth opportunities
- Commuter and transit benefits
Successful applicants will exemplify strong ethics, integrity, respect for others, accountability for decisions and actions, and good citizenship.
Maintaining a reliable, uninterrupted high speed internet connection is a requirement of hybrid or remote positions.