Role : AI Developer - Reconciliation & Business Solutions Automation
Location : Austin, TX and Southlake, TX
Type : Contract
Experience: 12+ years
Need candidate to wok onsite from Day 1 (3 days a week)
Role Overview
Firsthand AI Developer focused on building automation for asset management middle office reconciliation, exception management, and workflow improvement. Converts business problems into scalable AI-enabled and rule-based solutions that reduce manual effort and improve controls.
Key Responsibilities
- Build AI-enabled automation for reconciliation and middle office workflows.
- Automate cash, position, transaction data reconciliation.
- Develop exception classification, anomaly detection, break prioritization, and root-cause capabilities.
- Partner with business, operations, product, technology, risk, and vendor teams to deliver supportable solutions.
Required Experience
- Software development experience in financial services, investment operations, fintech, or enterprise technology.
- Experience building automation, workflow, data, API, or AI-enabled solutions.
- Knowledge of middle office reconciliation, exception management, matching logic, controls, and straight-through processing.
- Experience with investment data such as trades, positions, cash, transactions, securities, pricing, corporate actions, and reference data.
Technical Skills
- Strong programming skills in Python, Java, JavaScript/TypeScript, or similar languages.
- Strong SQL, data analysis, and data transformation skills.
- Experience with APIs, microservices, integrations, cloud platforms, CI/CD, testing, monitoring, and production support.
- Ability to create technical designs, data mappings, workflow diagrams, and runbooks.
- Experience in applying AI, generative AI, machine learning, or analytics to process automation.
- Ability to build classification, summarization, semantic search, anomaly detection, and decision-support capabilities.
- Understanding of responsible AI, privacy, explainability, oversight, auditability, and operational risk controls.
- Experience with Google Cloud Platform services including Cloud Storage, Cloud Run, Google Cloud Storage, Cloud Dataflow, Cloud Composer/DAGs, and Secret Manager.
- Experience with Vertex AI Search, Gemini LLMs, Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform, Gemini Flash 3.5, and Gemini Flash-Lite models.
Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Information Systems, Engineering, Data Science, Finance, Accounting, or equivalent experience.
- Several years of software engineering, AI development, data engineering, automation engineering, or fintech delivery experience.
- Strong analytical, technical design, communication, documentation, and stakeholder collaboration skills.
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience with reconciliation or investment operations platforms such as VestmarkONE, SmartStream, Aladdin, Advent Portfolio Exchange, or similar tools.
- Experience modernizing manual processes through workflow automation, STP, AI-assisted review, or exception management platforms.
- Knowledge of brokerage, wealth management, banking, capital markets, managed accounts, or asset management operations.
Tekshapers is an equal opportunity employer and will consider all applications without regards to race, sex, age, color, religion, national origin, veteran status, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information or any characteristic protected by law.