US Residential Mortgage Team lead
Cognizant
6 - 8 years
Chennai
Posted: 12/02/2026
Job Description
Job Description for TL
Objectives
TLs objective is to actively assist a team in accordance with laid down procedures to achieve and maintain requisite standards of quality and productivity. He / she will report to the Operations Manager, who will be the first point of contact for any issues, questions, or concerns. Lead a production team responsible for end-to-end TRID compliance operations, with specialization in Loan Estimate (LE) vs. Closing Disclosure (CD) comparisons, Change of Circumstance (COC) determinations and redisclosures, tolerance testing, and cure/refund processing within regulatory timelines
Key Result Areas (KRAs)
Leadership:
- TL to track daily /weekly and monthly production targets and volumes.
- Conduct daily and weekly meetings with the stakeholders to understand any deviation and opportunities for improvement.
- Work with production staff to acquire required documents and loan level transaction details and accurately capturing the production records
- Client coordination for query resolution & process updates.
- Examine loan package for accuracy and completeness and determine whether additional information may be required to make a calculation
- TL is responsible for maintaining constant process knowledge in the team.
- The ability to handle both people and process issues and streamline them.
- Responsible for maintaining and documenting all updates received from the business area.
- Will be a part of all the clients calls and will be responsible for updating the teams.
- Responsible for cascading / providing training on new updates to all team members.
- Responsible for conducting the knowledge check.
- Responsible for suggesting and driving process improvements.
- Should have multi-tasking skills as a Trainer / QC / Processor and will conduct refresher training / handle Quality sessions on a need basis.
- Monitor and coach underperformers to improve their quality and efficiency.
- Address and ensure resolution on all process related queries of the team members
- Conduct process training for new joiners.
- Support team members with their process queries.
- Perform internal audits.
- Draft process SOPs.
- Manage process update trackers.
Qualification:
- Graduate any discipline
- 6 - 8 years of experience in BPO, U.S Mortgage/ Data Processing background.
- Minimum of 1 years in the Team Leader role.
Skill Sets
- Strong leadership skills and ability to manage one or more SMEs.
- Strong knowledge of TRID And other mortgage documents
- Proficiency with MS Excel, MS Word, PowerPoint, process tools
- Must be detail oriented, organized and work efficiently under pressure.
- Good interpersonal skills
- Good written and verbal Communication skills
- Analytical and good judging skills
- Ability to grasp and learn quickly
- Ability to coach
- Self-motivated
- Ability to plan
- Should be able to prioritize the daily work
- Flexibility to work in different shifts
- US Mortgage Certification will be a value add.
Notice Period:0 to 30 days
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