CTO — AI Strategy & Enterprise Tech Leader

Heitmeyer Consulting; Columbus (OH); On-site; USD 140,000 - 220,000; Full time

Job summary

Heitmeyer Consulting is seeking a technology strategy and AI deployment leader to drive transformation initiatives for U.S. banks, credit unions, and fintechs. You will set roadmaps, design AI apps, and align delivery with sales and recruiting, delivering reusable IP and measurable results.

You will own architecture, data foundations, governance, and vendor relationships, ensuring secure, scalable solutions that accelerate client outcomes across practice areas.

Qualifications

• Experience delivering technology solutions in a consulting or professional services environment and understanding discovery, scoping, proposals, delivery economics, and client expectations.
• Hands-on technical depth with software, integrations, data solutions, or automations and ability to work across business conversations, architecture decisions, and implementation.
• Proven practical AI experience with production-grade AI use cases and understanding of data quality, evaluation, integration, security, human oversight, and operational adoption.

Responsibilities

• Set and execute a prioritized technology roadmap across sales, recruiting, consulting, and operations.
• Design, prototype, integrate, and deploy AI applications, automations, and data tools.
• Connect client signals, relationship data, pipeline, and talent data to improve opportunities and proposals.
• Identify recurring bank needs and turn domain expertise into reusable assessments, accelerators, and AI applications.
• Own applications, architecture, integrations, reporting, and a trusted data foundation.
• Manage technology budget, vendors, support model, reliability, security, and AI governance.

Skills

Consulting experience

Hands-on development

Practical AI experience

Commercial judgment

Ownership & execution

Leadership & communication

Security & governance

Tools

Azure

Copilot

Power Platform

CRM integrations

ATS integrations

Enterprise data arch.

Job description

Heitmeyer Consulting is seeking a technology strategy and AI deployment leader to drive transformation initiatives for U.S. banks, credit unions, and fintechs. You will set roadmaps, design AI apps, and align delivery with sales and recruiting, delivering reusable IP and measurable results.

You will own architecture, data foundations, governance, and vendor relationships, ensuring secure, scalable solutions that accelerate client outcomes across practice areas.