Team Lead, Product Development

Job Description

Job Description

Overview

Ready to join thousands of talented team members who are making the dream of home ownership possible for more Americans? It’s all happening on UWM’s campus, where our award-winning workplace packs plenty of perks and amenities that keep the atmosphere buzzing with energy and excitement.

It’s no wonder that out of our six pillars, People Are Our Greatest Asset is number one. It’s at the very heart of how we treat each other, our clients and our community. Whether it’s providing elite client service or continuously striving to improve, our pillars provide a pathway to a more successful personal and professional life.

From the team member that holds a door open to the one that helps guide your career, you’ll feel the encouragement and support on day one. No matter your race, creed, gender, age, sexual orientation and ethnicity, you’ll be welcomed here. Accepted here. And empowered to Be You Here.

More reasons you’ll love working here include:

• Paid Time Off (PTO) after just 30 days
• Additional parental and maternity leave benefits after 12 months
• Adoption reimbursement program
• Paid volunteer hours
• Paid training and career development
• Medical, dental, vision and life insurance
• 401k with employer match
• Mortgage discount and area business discounts
• Free membership to our large, state-of-the-art fitness center, including exercise classes such as yoga and Zumba, various sports leagues and a full-size basketball court
• Wellness area, including an in-house primary-care physician’s office, full-time massage therapist and hair salon 
• Gourmet cafeteria featuring homemade breakfast and lunch
• Convenience store featuring healthy grab-and-go snacks
• In-house Starbucks and Dunkin
• Indoor/outdoor café with Wi-Fi

Responsibilities

• You are responsible for the productivity of your team
• Promote best practices and patterns
• Facilitate communication between team members to ensure the success of your team
• Mentor and lead developers, BAs, and QAs
• Foster learning on your team
• Suggest new processes and document reoccurring processes that will help streamline software development.
• Leads the design, construction, and implementation phases of system or project upgrades.
• Cultivate leadership on your team
• Facilitate collaboration on your team, and among our other technical discipline leads
• Foster adoption and adherence to our Agile software methodology
• Drive to keep projects on track
• Keep senior leaders well informed during the project life cycle
• Participate in interviews

Qualifications

Required:

• A minimum of 5 years’ experience with software project management
• Computer-related degree or equivalent work experience
• Ability to communicate with strong technical skills
• Strong analytical problem solving skills
• Experience with customer management (setting expectations, relationship management)
• Ability to work with limited guidance in a team environment
• Experience with team member management
• Full software life-cycle experience
• Exemplary communication abilities
• Ability to mentor developers
• Excellent organizational skills

Preferred:

• Knowlege in DevOps and Salesforce Development Processes
• Experience with database design
• Experience in the mortgage industry
• Experience with TFS and SVN
• Experience in an Agile environment
• Experience unit testing
• Knowledge of SOLID principles