Senior Technical Recruiter

Overview

Strategic partner recruiting technical talent for Walker & Dunlop's tech teams.

Key Responsibilities

• full-cycle recruiting
• talent sourcing
• metrics analysis
• workday data
• candidate experience
• hiring advisory

Tasks

-Act as a thought partner to the HR Operations team, contributing to hiring process improvements, workflow optimizations, and long-term planning efforts. -Monitor and analyze recruiting metrics to identify areas for improvement and communicate progress with key stakeholders. -Draft, revise, and manage job descriptions, ensuring they reflect evolving business needs, accurately represent role expectations, and align with internal standards. -Lead full-cycle recruitment for technical roles across WDTech, including product management, product design, software engineering, data engineering, data science, infrastructure, and cybersecurity, ensuring the hiring process is timely, consistent, and aligned with business priorities. -Manage candidate communications and logistics with a focus on responsiveness, professionalism, and a strong candidate experience. -Collaborate with the Compensation team to evaluate market data, advise on appropriate salary bands, and support consistent and equitable offer development. -Provide occasional support for recruiting in other business areas across the company, flexing capacity to meet overall team demands as needed. -Serve as a key advisor to hiring managers on job design, leveling, market trends, and candidate profiles, helping shape high-quality, scalable technical teams. -Leverage a range of sourcing techniques such as direct outreach, job boards, referrals, and strategic sourcing to build high-quality pipelines. -Partner closely with the HR Business Partner to understand organizational goals, team structures, and talent plans, ensuring recruitment activities complement broader HR strategies. -Enter and maintain data in Workday, ensuring accuracy across requisitions, candidate statuses, and reporting. -Support and oversee the interview process, partnering with coordinators or hiring teams to ensure schedules are aligned, interviewers are prepared, and feedback is collected in a timely and organized manner. -Partner with other HR team members on cross-functional initiatives, such as onboarding enhancements, workforce planning, or organizational changes impacting hiring.

Requirements

• bachelor's
• technical recruiting
• 10+ years
• stakeholder management
• communication
• organized

What You Bring

-Ability to show ownership of your work, take on challenges and acknowledge growth opportunities, and demonstrate patience when learning new processes. -Strong written and verbal communication. -Excellent stakeholder management and consultative skills. -A proven track record of managing a diversified requisition load, indicating the ability to handle multiple open positions simultaneously while maintaining quality and efficiency. -A Bachelor's degree is preferred in a relevant field such as Human Resources, Business Administration, or a related discipline. -Prior experience recruiting for technical roles such as product management, product design, software engineering, data engineering, data science, infrastructure, and cybersecurity is required. -Highly organized and detail-oriented, with strong process and administrative capability. -Courtesy, respect, and thoughtfulness in teaming with colleagues and other stakeholders. -10+ years of recruiting experience is required, with demonstrated proficiency in sourcing, screening, and hiring top talent. Preference for both corporate and agency experience. -Attendance is generally required from 8:30 am – 5:30 pm local time, Tuesday through Thursday, with the option to work remotely on Mondays and Fridays. -Strong understanding of technical roles and terminology; ability to engage confidently with technical stakeholders. -Ability to balance strategic thinking with operational execution.

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Benefits

-Flexible and supportive team player with a proactive mindset. -Health Savings Account and Healthcare and Dependent Care Flexible Spending -A robust health and wellness program – earn cash rewards and gain access to resources that -401(k) + match -Up to 83% subsidized medical payroll deductions -Competitive dental and vision benefits -Empowerment and encouragement to give back – volunteer hours and donation matching -Pre-tax transit and commuting benefits -Career development opportunities -Comprehensive benefit options* that have earned Walker & Dunlop the silver level of the 2022 Cigna Healthy Workforce Designation™, some of which include: -Paid maternity and parental leave, as well as other family paid leave programs -The opportunity to join one of Fortune Magazine’s Great Places to Work winners from 2015-2023 -Company-paid life, short and long-term disability insurance

About Walker & Dunlop

-Provides capital solutions for commercial real estate transactions across multiple sectors. -Diverse portfolio includes financing for residential, industrial, commercial, and mixed-use projects. -Offers capital markets, loan servicing, investment sales, and agency lending services. -Notable projects include financing for major office buildings, residential complexes, and large-scale industrial facilities. -Continuously innovates with technology to enhance financial solutions.

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Security Clearance

-background checks will be conducted after a conditional offer is accepted.