A senior practitioner in Home Mortgage Disclosure Act compliance, you handle complex HMDA-reporting work at banks and mortgage lenders — major-program improvements, complex compliance-testing work, examination-preparation engagements — providing the senior HMDA voice in the compliance organization.
Senior HMDA-specialist work threads across HMDA-data quality, compliance-testing, and examination engagement — leading sophisticated HMDA-data work, supporting compliance-testing on HMDA-related rules (and related fair-lending analysis), mentoring junior HMDA specialists, working with regulators on HMDA-examination preparation. Data-quality outcomes and examination posture anchor the operating measures.
The harder part is often the data-precision-and-fair-lending overlay — HMDA data feeds fair-lending analysis with potential discrimination findings, and senior specialists carry the responsibility for data-quality and the broader compliance posture HMDA work informs. Variance across employers is real: large banks run senior HMDA specialists within structured fair-lending and compliance functions; community banks run with broader senior scope; specialty mortgage operations run HMDA work within sector-specific frameworks.
It fits people deeply HMDA-rule fluent, analytically careful with data work, and steady under examination-and-audit scrutiny. CRCM and fair-lending credentials anchor advancement. The trade-off is the fair-lending-litigation exposure — HMDA data underlies fair-lending findings that may surface in regulator action or private litigation, and senior specialists carry the responsibility across years.
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View all Business Operations roles →A senior practitioner in Home Mortgage Disclosure Act compliance, you handle complex HMDA-reporting work at banks and mortgage lenders — major-program improvements, complex compliance-testing work, examination-preparation engagements — providing the senior HMDA voice in the compliance organization.
Median pay for a Senior Home Mortgage Disclosure Act Specialist (Hmda Specialist) is about $90K nationally, with the field ranging roughly from $53K to $172K depending on experience, employer, and metro (BLS).
Core skills for this role include Reading Comprehension, Critical Thinking, Active Listening, Writing, and Speaking.
Most people in this role hold a bachelor's degree.
Employment in this field is projected to grow about 18.5% through 2034, with roughly 62,830 people working in it today (BLS).
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