Ai Solutions Architect

Role: AI Solutions Architect (AI Forward Deployed Engineer)

Employment: Contract, 90-day

Location: Preferred Hybrid in Austin, TX

The Opportunity:

Efinity Mortgage is a growing mortgage lending operation preparing to scale production without scaling headcount at the same rate. We are launching a Digital Workforce Initiative: a focused, 90-day effort to stand up a secure enterprise AI strategy and to build and deploy high-impact automation across our departments: underwriting, processing, compliance, finance, recruiting, marketing, and executive management.

We are looking for a hands-on Contract AI Solutions Architect to lead this initiative end-to-end - from assessment and architecture through to building production-ready tools and enabling our staff to use them. We want a builder who can pair strategic thinking with working software inside a regulated mortgage environment.

The Mission:

The goal is not simply to deploy AI tools. The goal is to create a digital workforce that augments our people across underwriting, processing, compliance, finance, recruiting, marketing, and executive management - increasing capacity and quality while reducing manual effort and vendor dependence. Over the long term, this initiative lays the foundation for an internal "Efinity AI" platform: a durable, owned capability rather than a collection of disconnected point solutions. Your work in these 90 days establishes the architecture, governance, and first wave of tools that the platform will grow from.

$120 - $125 hourly

Scope of Work:

Assess

• Conduct an AI opportunity assessment across departments, prioritizing by impact, feasibility, and risk.

• Map current workflows, systems, and data sources, including key vendor platforms in use today.

• Identify the highest-leverage automation candidates and sequence them into a build plan.

Architect

• Define an enterprise AI roadmap that connects near-term wins to the long-term Efinity AI platform vision.

• Establish a security and governance framework appropriate for a regulated mortgage operation (data handling, access control, model usage policies, auditability, and vendor risk).

• Select the model, tooling, and integration approach, balancing capability, cost, and control.

Build

• Develop 10-15 production-ready AI tools targeting the prioritized opportunities.

• Integrate tools into existing systems and workflows so they fit how staff actually work.

• Build for maintainability and handoff - documented, supportable, and owned internally after the engagement.

Enable

• Create a staff training and adoption plan, and lead hands-on enablement for the teams using each tool.

• Define how success is measured and instrument the tools so impact can be tracked over time.

• Hand off documentation, architecture decisions, and a forward roadmap to internal owners.

Key Deliverables

• An enterprise AI roadmap aligned to the long-term Efinity AI platform vision.

• A security and governance framework suitable for a regulated mortgage operation.

• A prioritized AI opportunity assessment across departments.

• 10-15 production-ready AI tools, integrated and documented.

• A staff training and adoption plan, with hands-on enablement delivered.

• A clean internal handoff: documentation, architecture decisions, and a forward roadmap.

Who We're Looking For:

• Proven experience designing and shipping AI/LLM-powered tools in production - not just prototypes or proofs of concept.
• Strong software engineering fundamentals: ability to build, integrate, and deploy working applications independently.
• Hands-on experience with modern AI platforms and APIs, retrieval/RAG patterns, prompt and workflow design, and AI tool orchestration.
• Experience integrating with existing business systems (CRMs, document platforms, internal databases, reporting tools).
• A working understanding of AI governance, data security, and privacy - and the judgment to apply it in a regulated environment.
• The ability to translate between executive strategy and technical execution, and to drive an initiative with minimal oversight.
• Availability for a hybrid arrangement based in Austin, TX, including regular on-site presence.

Candidates should be prepared to sign a confidentiality/non-disclosure agreement and to work within Efinity Mortgage's data security policies.

Compensation details: 120-125 Hourly Wage

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