Consultant, AI Software Engineering

Consultant Position at FI Consulting

FI Consulting is seeking a highly motivated Consultant who combines software engineering, data analytics, cloud technologies, and AI-enabled problem solving to build impactful solutions for complex client challenges. This individual will design, develop, and deploy modern applications, automation, analytics, and AI-enabled solutions that drive measurable business outcomes.

Responsibilities:

• Design and develop software applications, analytical tools, APIs, automation, and AI-enabled solutions.
• Translate complex business and client problems into structured technical solutions, workflows, and system designs.
• Develop GenAI and agentic AI capabilities, including AI-assisted workflows, document understanding, information extraction, recommendation and decision-support capabilities.
• Develop and maintain data pipelines, APIs, backend services, and cloud-based systems using AWS or similar platforms.
• Build software and scripts to automate manual or complex business processes.
• Work with structured and unstructured data to support analytics, application functionality, and AI use cases.
• Apply AI-assisted development tools to improve the speed, quality, and efficiency of software development and project delivery.
• Participate throughout the Agile software development lifecycle, including requirements, design, coding, testing, CI/CD, deployment, and production support.
• Collaborate with developers, architects, data teams, business analysts, and client stakeholders to successfully deliver project solutions.
• Communicate technical approaches, recommendations, risks, and findings to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, Data Science, Finance, or a related quantitative or technical field.
• 2–5 years of experience in software development, data engineering, quantitative development, AI/ML development, or technical consulting.
• Strong programming skills in one or more languages such as Python, Java, JavaScript/Type Script, R, or similar, with proficiency working with SQL and databases.
• Experience developing software applications, APIs, automation, or data-driven solutions.
• Familiarity with cloud platforms and cloud-native development; AWS experience preferred.
• Experience working with complex structured and/or unstructured datasets.
• Familiarity with modern AI/GenAI technologies, including LLMs, AI APIs, or AI-assisted application development.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with the ability to translate business requirements into technical solutions.
• Strong consulting skills, including communication, collaboration, stakeholder management, and the ability to work effectively in client-facing environments.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Hands-on experience developing Generative AI or Agentic AI applications and workflows.
• Experience with LLM platforms and services such as Amazon Bedrock, Anthropic, or similar technologies.
• Experience with RAG, vector search, knowledge bases, document processing, prompt engineering, tool/function calling, or AI workflow orchestration.
• Experience implementing AI evaluation, validation, confidence handling, guardrails, or human-in-the-loop review processes.
• Experience building end-to-end applications or production-grade systems.
• Exposure to full-stack development, microservices, or system architecture.
• Experience with AWS services such as Lambda, API Gateway, S3, databases, IAM, Cloud Watch, or related services.
• Experience with infrastructure-as-code, automated testing, and CI/CD practices.
• Experience in banking, finance, housing, real estate, capital markets, or other regulated industries.

Ideal Candidate Profile:

• Takes ownership of specific deliverables and outcomes from design through implementation.
• Is comfortable working across software development, data, AI, and business problem solving rather than within a narrowly defined technical role.
• Learns and applies new technologies quickly.
• Demonstrates strong curiosity about emerging AI technologies and how they can be applied to real business problems.
• Proactively identifies opportunities to automate processes, improve user experiences, and increase delivery efficiency.
• Can evaluate when AI is appropriate and when conventional software or analytics approaches provide a better solution.
• Works effectively in environments requiring collaboration between business stakeholders, software engineers, data teams, and technical architects.
• Demonstrates initiative and intellectual curiosity beyond formal project requirements.
• Has a strong interest in using AI as both a solution capability and a productivity accelerator.

Additional Requirements:

• Must be authorized to work in the United States as a U.S. Citizen or permanent resident. FI Consulting is not able to accept candidates requiring visa sponsorship or individuals currently working under OPT, H-1B, EAD, or other temporary work authorization for this position.
• Must successfully complete required background…