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

FI Consulting
United States, Virginia, Arlington
1500 Wilson Boulevard (Show on map)
Jul 24, 2026
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.
For more than 23 years, financial institutions in the Federal, private, and public sectors have called on FI Consulting to address complex and high-stakes analytical challenges closely scrutinized by executives, auditors, regulators, and stakeholders.
We help clients succeed by applying our core strengths in business applications of Data Engineering, Analytics, Modeling, and Business Architecture to gain insight into finances, loans, and performance; manage risk; and improve operations.
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.
  • FI Consulting participates in E-Verify.
  • Equal Employment Opportunity/disability/protected veteran status.
  • FI Consulting is committed to working with and providing reasonable accommodation to individuals with physical and mental disabilities. If you need special assistance or an accommodation while seeking employment, please email recruiting@ficonsulting.com or call: 571-255-6772. We will make a determination on your request for reasonable accommodation on a case-by-case basis.


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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