Team Lead, Enterprise Technology - SRE

 

At UWM we want the best people. We work with you to ensure your role is tailored to best suit you. You will play a key role in expanding our fast growing Enterprise Technology team. We have experienced explosive growth as an emerging leader in the Financial Industry, and are looking for team leads who will lead our growth going forward.

 

As a Lead at UWM you will work in a fast paced, results driven environment and be responsible mentoring and growing a cross functional team of Site Reliability Engineers and BAs who will work to support a highly scalable enterprise application stack. Your team will be a highly talented group comprised of talented Reliability Engineers that are working on many of our exciting projects to continue our phenomenal growth and dominance of the wholesale mortgage market.

 

We are looking for the best SRE Leads who are motivated and possess exemplary communication and leadership abilities.

 

The ideal candidate for this position will have experience with the entire software development life cycle.

WHAT YOU WILL BE DOING

• 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 Site Reliability Engineers and BAs
• Foster learning on your team
• Suggest new processes and document reoccurring processes that will help ensure the reliability of our applications and supporting technologies.
• 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

WHAT WE NEED FROM YOU

Must Have Qualifications:

• Computer-related degree or equivalent work experience

• Ability to communicate with strong technical skills

• A minimum of 3 years’ hands-on experience with Software Development, DevOps, or Observability

• 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

• Excellent organizational skills

• 100% Onsite attendance in Pontiac Michigan

Nice to Have Qualifications:

• Experience with database design

• Experience in automation platforms

• Experience in the mortgage industry

• Experience with Jira and Confluence

• Experience in an Agile environment

• Experience unit testing/performance testing

THE PLACE & THE PERKS

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