Senior Technical Business Analyst – Mortgage and Lending Drive complex mortgage and lending technology initiatives within a large-scale insurance environment. This hybrid opportunity in Toronto or Waterloo focuses on business analysis, stakeholder collaboration, and enterprise delivery across mortgage origination, underwriting, funding, and servicing processes in a regulated financial services setting.
What is in it for you:
- Salaried: $58-68 per hour.
- Incorporated Business Rate: $70-80 per hour.
- 8-month contract with the potential for permanent employment.
- Full-time position: 37.50 hours per week.
- Schedule from 9 am to 5 pm.
- Hybrid: 2 days/week in Toronto office.
Responsibilities:
- Analyse and document end-to-end mortgage and lending processes, including application intake, underwriting, decisioning, fulfillment, funding, and downstream servicing interactions.
- Translate lending policies, credit rules, operational procedures, and regulatory requirements into clear and actionable requirements.
- Support the design and improvement of customer-, advisor-, and operations-facing mortgage experiences with a focus on efficiency, transparency, and scalability.
- Identify workflow inefficiencies, manual handoffs, and process friction points within mortgage operations and recommend technology-enabled improvements.
- Collaborate with stakeholders across business, operations, risk, compliance, and technology teams to align solutions with operational and lending objectives.
- Facilitate requirements gathering workshops, design sessions, and solution reviews with various stakeholder groups.
- Act as a liaison between business stakeholders, internal technology teams, and external delivery partners to ensure alignment and shared understanding.
- Elicit, define, and manage functional and non-functional requirements across integrated systems and workflows.
- Break down business needs into epics, features, user stories, acceptance criteria, and supporting agile delivery documentation.
- Work closely with architects and engineering teams to ensure requirements are technically feasible and aligned with enterprise standards.
- Maintain traceability between business objectives and delivered solutions.
- Support backlog refinement, sprint planning, prioritization, and ongoing requirement updates throughout the project lifecycle.
- Partner with QA and testing teams to validate requirements and ensure alignment with testing scenarios and scripts.
- Assist with defect triage and issue resolution by clarifying expected outcomes and requirements.
- Contribute to implementation readiness, including operational processes, training support, and change management activities.
- Ensure documentation and requirements meet internal quality standards, audit expectations, and regulatory obligations.
- Identify and escalate risks, issues, and dependencies with recommended mitigation strategies.
- Provide concise project updates to leadership and delivery stakeholders as required.What you will need to succeed:
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems, or a related technical field.
- 8 to 10 years of experience as a Business Analyst or Business Systems Analyst supporting complex technology initiatives.
- Experience supporting mortgage, lending, credit, or related financial services platforms.
- Strong understanding of mortgage origination and lending lifecycles, including underwriting, funding, fulfillment, and servicing processes.
- Experience working within regulated environments involving compliance, audit, and risk management stakeholders.
- Ability to interpret lending policies and regulatory requirements and translate them into system capabilities.
- Strong facilitation and stakeholder engagement skills.
- Experience collaborating closely with QA teams and development teams throughout the delivery lifecycle.
- Strong technical background with knowledge of systems analysis, application integration concepts, APIs, and non-functional requirements including performance, scalability, resilience, and security.
- Working knowledge of programming concepts and system behaviour to effectively collaborate with engineering teams.
- Proven ability to analyse complex systems and processes to deliver scalable and high-quality solutions.
- Experience working within agile or hybrid delivery environments supporting multi-workstream programs.
- Ability to manage multiple priorities and meet aggressive delivery timelines.
- Strong judgment in selecting appropriate tools, techniques, and approaches to solve complex business and technical problems.
- Excellent verbal, written, and interpersonal communication skills with the ability to engage technical and non-technical audiences.
- Strong stakeholder management, negotiation, and alignment skills.
- Comfortable working in evolving environments with changing requirements and ambiguity.
- Experience with data reporting.
- Ability to effectively document business and technical requirements.
- Understanding of coding and debugging concepts is considered an asset.
- Knowledge of SQL and Power BI is considered an asset.Why Recruit Action? Recruit Action (agency permit: AP- ) provides recruitment services through quality support and a personalized approach. As part of the screening process, some applications may be reviewed using artificial intelligence tools. Only candidates who meet the hiring criteria will be contacted.# MFCJP