*New* Senior Technical Lead, AI-Powered Finance Solutions

FI Consulting

$120K — $150K *
Finance & Insurance
8 - 10 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree in Economics, Finance, Mathematics, Computer Science, or a related quantitative discipline
  • 10+ years of experience in data analysis within Finance, Accounting, or CFO organizations
  • Hands-on experience with financial modeling, housing finance, and credit risk
  • Understanding of the regulatory landscape affecting the GSE and financial services industry
  • Client-facing consulting experience
  • Experience in banking, finance, housing, real estate, or capital markets
  • Exceptional communicator with the ability to engage technical and executive stakeholders

Responsibilities

  • Build AI-enabled products to validate financial results and clarify complex financial models
  • Drive insight discovery by analyzing complex datasets and providing visualizations
  • Own the product management process from stakeholder engagement to delivery
  • Develop solutions in Python using AI tools to enhance productivity
  • Translate complex findings into clear recommendations for executive audiences
  • Act as a trusted advisor to client leadership, managing deliverables and anticipating needs
  • Stay updated on industry and AI advancements, bringing innovative ideas to the team

Benefits

  • Commitment to creating value for clients and employees
  • Flat management structure led by original founders
  • Emphasis on teamwork and cooperation
  • Focus on employee development and career growth
  • Culture that rewards entrepreneurship and innovation
Full Job Description
FI Consulting is seeking a full-time Senior Technical Lead with 10+ years of professional experience, to help lead and advise our client on AI-Powered Finance Solutions.

The Opportunity

This is a rare chance to sit at the intersection of cutting-edge AI and high-stakes financial decision-making. You will be shipping real AI-enabled products that help finance leaders trust their numbers, understand their models, and make decisions that matter. You'll be involved in the full development lifecycle: partnering with senior business leaders to uncover what they truly need, translating that into Python-powered solutions built with AI assistance (GitHub Copilot), and delivering products that make complex financial models understandable and financial results defensible.

Responsibilities
  • Build AI-enabled products that validate financial results and demystify complex financial models, turning black-box outputs into clear, auditable narratives
  • Drive insight discovery for a finance team, surfacing patterns, anomalies, and opportunities buried in complex datasets through sharp analytics and compelling visualizations
  • Own the product management process end-to-end: engage directly with stakeholders to define requirements, set priorities, and align delivery to business impact
  • Develop in Python, leveraging GitHub Copilot and modern AI tooling to ship faster and smarter, you'll help define what AI-assisted development looks like at scale
  • Translate complexity into clarity; present findings and recommendations to executive audiences in a way that drives confident, data-backed decisions
  • Act as a trusted advisor to client leadership, anticipating needs, managing risk, and keeping high-visibility deliverables on track
  • Stay ahead of the curve on AI, regulatory, and industry developments, continuously bringing new ideas that sharpen the team's capabilities

Required Qualifications
  • Bachelor's degree in Economics, Finance, Mathematics, Computer Science, or a related quantitative discipline
  • 10+ years of experience in data analysis within Finance, Accounting, or CFO organizations
  • Hands-on experience with financial modeling, housing finance, and credit risk
  • Understanding of the regulatory landscape and business challenges shaping the GSE and broader financial services industry
  • Client-facing consulting experience
  • Experience in banking, finance, housing, real estate or capital markets
  • Experience leading teams and managing multi-stakeholder relationships across technical and business domains
  • Exceptional communicator, equally comfortable whiteboarding with engineers and presenting to C-suite
  • Highly self-directed with a bias for action and collaborative execution

Preferred Qualifications
  • Deep familiarity with government-sponsored enterprises (GSEs), Fannie Mae and/or Freddie Mac experience strongly preferred
  • Certifications: CFA, CPA, FRM


Preferred Technologies
  • Query & Analysis: SQL, Python, R
  • Programming & Automation: Python, R, SAS, JavaScript
  • Visualization & BI: Excel, Power BI, Tableau
  • Cloud: Azure, AWS, GCP

You're an AI Native - This team moves at the speed of AI. We're looking for someone who has already woven AI tools into their daily workflow, not someone curious about starting.

  • You build with these: Code generation tools (GitHub Copilot, Claude Code, Kiro, etc.) to accelerate development
  • You ship with these: Embedding AI into product solutions: LLMs for model explanation, predictive algorithms for anomaly detection, intelligent validation pipelines
  • You should be able to walk through specific examples of how AI made your work sharper, faster, or more impactful.


Your Mindset
  • Intellectual Curiosity: You chase down new AI capabilities because you genuinely want to know what's possible
  • Problem-solving & Critical Thinking: You don't just apply tools, you know when and why to reach for them
  • Learning Agility: The AI landscape shifts constantly; you shift with it


Our Company Values & Operates on
  • A Commitment to Creating Value for our Clients and our Employees
  • A Flat Management Structure that is Still Led by one of the Original Founders
  • An Emphasis on Teamwork and Cooperation
  • Employee Development and Career Growth
  • Continuous Improvement
  • An Entrepreneurial Culture that Rewards Finding, Developing, and Owning Business


Additional requirements
  • Authorized to work in the United States as a US Citizen. We are not able to accept permanent resident or sponsor or accept any VISA Holders at this time including OPT, H1B, EAD.
  • Successfully pass a background investigation and drug screening.
  • Reside in the DC Metro area within 30 days of hire.

FLSA Designation
  • This is an exempt position.

AI plays only a supporting role in our recruitment process. All decisions are made by human members of our talent acquisition team.

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