Senior Curative Specialist

Position Title: Senior Curative Specialist (Investor Client Focus)

Reports To: Curative Manager 

Location: Remote / Hybrid 

Company URL: http://www.solidifi.com

About the Role 

The Senior Curative Specialist (Investor Client Focus) is responsible for identifying, researching, resolving, and clearing complex title curative issues impacting investor-driven refinance and residential mortgage transactions. This role serves as a subject matter expert for curative matters involving investor clients, corporate ownership structures, title defects, lien resolution, and other conditions that prevent a file from proceeding to closing or policy issuance.

The Senior Curative Specialist partners closely with Investor clients, attorneys, lenders, vendors, and internal operations teams to develop practical, compliant solutions while ensuring service level expectations and client requirements are met.

This position requires strong analytical skills, Investor title curative knowledge, problem-solving abilities, and experience handling complex curative matters across multiple jurisdictions.

Responsibilities

• Review and resolve complex title curative defects, requirements, and exceptions impacting Investor refinance and 1-4 family residential mortgage transactions.
• Analyze title commitments, search products, payoff information, and supporting documentation to determine curative solutions.
• Research ownership issues, unreleased mortgages, judgments, tax liens, probate matters, corporate authority concerns, easements, boundary issues, and other title defects.
• Review corporate documents including Articles of Incorporation, Certificates of Authority, Operating Agreements, Resolutions, Trust Documents, Powers of Attorney, and related legal instruments to validate ownership and signing authority.
• Handle complex corporate ownership structures, including LLCs, partnerships, trusts, estates, and multi-entity ownership scenarios.
• Order and prepare ancillary Deed forms as needed.
• Develop curative strategies and provide clear instructions to internal teams, vendors, settlement agents, attorneys, borrowers, and lenders.
• Coordinate with title underwriters regarding underwriting approvals, indemnity requests, affirmative coverage, and risk assessments.
• Review recorded documents including deeds, mortgages, assignments, releases, modifications, affidavits, and court filings to confirm legal sufficiency.
• Serve as a primary point of contact for investor-clients regarding complex curative matters and escalated title issues.
• Monitor aging pipelines and prioritize high-risk or time-sensitive files to minimize CTC delays.

• Provide guidance and mentorship to Curative Specialists and other operational team members.
• Participate in root cause analysis and continuous improvement initiatives to reduce recurring title defects and bottlenecks.
• Maintain detailed file documentation and ensure compliance with investor guidelines, underwriting requirements, state regulations, and company procedures.

Skills and Expertise 

• Bachelor's degree in Business, Real Estate, Legal Studies, or related field preferred.
• Minimum 3 years of experience in title curative, Investor corp doc review, underwriting support, or related real estate operations.
• Demonstrated experience handling complex curative matters in refinance transactions.
• Experience working with investor clients, national lenders, title underwriters, or settlement operations.
• Experience supporting high-volume investor or lender clients.
• Experience with complex corporate ownership structures, including LLCs, partnerships, trusts, estates, and multi-entity ownership scenarios.
• Experience working directly with title underwriters and obtaining underwriting approvals.
• Knowledge of multi-state title requirements and regulatory environments.
• Previous leadership, training, or mentoring experience.
• ALTA, title insurance, underwriting support, or claims-related experience

Technical Knowledge/Strong understanding of: 

• Investor clients 
• Corporate entity review 
• Property ownership and vesting
• Title insurance practices
• Trust and estate documentation
• Probate-related title matters
• Judgments, tax liens, and UCC filings
• Refinance transaction workflows

About Solidifi

Solidifi is a leading network management services provider for the residential lending industry. Our platform combines proprietary technology and network management capabilities with tens of thousands of independent qualified field professionals to create an efficient marketplace for the provision of mortgage lending services. We are a leading independent provider of residential real estate appraisals and title, and settlement services. Our clients include top 100 mortgage lenders in the U.S. Solidifi is a wholly owned subsidiary of Real Matters (TSX: REAL). Visit www.solidifi.com for more information and stay connected with our latest news on LinkedIn. 

Benefits 

We provide a comprehensive benefits package that includes health, dental, and vision insurance, life insurance (basic and voluntary), short- and long-term disability coverage, FSA plan, 401(k) with company match, Wellness webinars, employee assistance programs, paid time off, volunteer time off, and paid holidays.

Equal Opportunity Employer

Solidifi is an Equal Opportunity Employer; applicants are considered for all roles without regard to race, religion, color, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, non-disqualifying physical or mental disability, national origin, veteran status, 

or any other basis covered by appropriate law. All employment is decided based on qualifications, merit, and business need. Please advise us at any point during the recruitment and selection process if you require accommodation. Solidifi is committed to compliance with all applicable legislation, including providing accommodation for applicants with disabilities.