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DATE POSTED: September 23, 2026

POSITION: Chief Financial Officer

LOCATION:  Southern Colorado Territory

The ideal candidate will be looking for more than just a traditional accounting-focused CFO role. We are seeking a strategic partner to our CEO that will help shape and execute the long-term goals of our association. Come join the Farm Credit mission in one of the strongest, most financially sound lending institutions in the U.S.

Responsibilities

Strategic Planning & Leadership:

• Partners with executive leadership to define and execute company’s long and short-term strategic plans.

• Provides financial leadership in evaluating growth opportunities, market expansion strategies, new business initiatives, and emerging industry trends and risks.

• Leads enterprise-wide planning processes, including strategic planning, annual budgeting, and multi-year forecasting.

• Designs, monitors, and provides actionable insights into key performance indicators (KPIs) that measure organizational performance, profitability, productivity, growth, and operational efficiency.

o Drives continuous improvement in financial reporting, analytics, forecasting, and business intelligence capabilities.

Capital Allocations & Investment

• Leads enterprise capital allocation and investment strategies to support organizational growth, financial performance, and long-term value creation.

• Evaluates and oversee capital investments, funding strategies, and financial resources to ensure alignment with strategic objectives and risk tolerance.

• Leads financial analysis, due diligence, and decision-making related to investments, financing opportunities, mergers, acquisitions, and strategic partnerships.

• Advises executive leadership and the Board on capital deployment, investment performance, and opportunities impacting the Association's financial strength and future growth.

Stakeholder Relations:

• Serves as a trusted financial spokesperson for employees, Board of Directors, regulators, auditors, and external stakeholders.

• Presents financial results, strategic initiatives, capital planning activities, risk assessments, and business performance updates to the Board and Board committees, identifying key information and developing recommendations

• Supports transparency and confidence through accurate financial reporting and effective stakeholder communications.

Risk & Governance:

• Identifies macro and micro financial risks, ensuring fiscal stability and regulatory compliance.

• Ensures effective internal control, financial reporting, and governance frameworks are maintained to safeguard assets, support regulatory compliance, and promote organizational accountability.

• Promotes a culture of accountability, transparency, ethical decision-making, and sound financial stewardship.

Leadership & Team Development:

• Develops, coaches, and mentors finance team members to build organizational capability, succession readiness, and high-performance outcomes.

• Communicates executive and Board decisions by providing clear direction, context, and expectations to direct reports, ensuring alignment and effective execution of priorities throughout the department.

• Establishes performance expectations and accountability measures that support company goals and employee development within the finance team.

Minimum Qualifying Characteristics:

• Bachelor’s degree in accounting, finance, economics, or a related degree.

• Preferred - master’s degree in business administration (MBA), Finance, Accounting, or related field.

• Preferred - CPA, CFA, or CMA

• 10 years of experience in complex accounting work, corporate finance and executive leadership, and 3 years supervision experience or an equivalent combination of education and experience sufficient to perform the essential functions of the job

• Strong business acumen and ability to evaluate opportunities from both financial and strategic perspectives.

• Expertise in enterprise risk management, governance, regulatory compliance, and financial controls.

• Strong strategic planning, business analytics, budgeting, and forecasting capabilities.

• Exceptional communication, sufficient to effectively collaborate with and communicate complex topics with boards, executives, regulators, and external stakeholders.

• Skill in quickly understanding and addressing business situations, including opportunities and risks

• Skill in guiding individuals and teams to achieve organizational goals

• Strong leadership capability with the ability to build and develop high-performing teams.

This position is full time and is benefits eligible. Occasional travel may be required to sufficiently support other locations within territory.

Farm Credit of Southern Colorado is an Equal Opportunity Employer dedicated to diversity in the workplace and offers a great work environment. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, age, religion, sex, national origin, disability, or protected veteran status.

The following information is disclosed in compliance with the Colorado Equal Pay for Equal Work Act. Similar positions applied for outside of Colorado will not necessarily receive the same compensation.

Salary Range: $245,000 - $280,000

This range is a good-faith and reasonable estimate of the range of possible compensation at the time of this posting. Actual salaries could vary and may be above or below the range as permitted by Colorado Equal Pay Transparency Rule 4.1.2. Variation is based on various factors including but not limited to location, qualifications, experience, operational needs and other considerations permitted by law. In compliance with the Colorado Equal Pay for Equal Work Act, a potential new employee’s salary history will not be used in compensation decisions. In addition, benefits for this position include medical, dental, vision and life insurance, 401k, tax advantage accounts, paid vacation, sick leave and parental leave.

Organizational Information

At Farm Credit of Southern Colorado, we believe in creating a culture where teammates enjoy coming to work and feel included. We live this every day by enacting our FIRST principles, Fun, Integrity, Respect, Service, and Trust. Our commitment to our employees has earned Farm Credit of Southern Colorado recognition by the Colorado Springs Gazette a Best Place to Work for the past 6 years.

As one of the Farm Credit System’s associations, Farm Credit of Southern Colorado is a robust organization serving its member/owners in 31 counties throughout Southern Colorado. With over $1.8 billion in assets, Farm Credit of Southern Colorado’s approximately 125 staff members bring strength to its shareholders and communities. Farm Credit of Southern Colorado is a member-owned cooperative that provides a wide range of financial products and risk management services for agricultural producers, agribusinesses, land owners and rural homeowners.

FINAL DATE FOR APPLICATION: Until the position is filled.

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DATE POSTED: September 28, 2026

POSITION: Senior Data Engineer

LOCATION: Remote

Farm Credit of Southern Colorado (FCSC) is seeking a Senior Data Engineer to join our team. This role will design and operate batch and streaming pipelines, develop reusable Python-based data processing components, and partner with analytics, application, architecture, and governance teams. This role will build reliable, secure, and scalable data products on Microsoft Azure.

Responsibilities:

Data Engineering & Development

• Design, build, test, deploy, and support data pipelines and data products across Azure environments.

• Develop production-quality Python for ingestion, transformation, validation, orchestration, automation, and operational tooling.

• Create and optimize batch and near-real-time processing using services such as Azure Data Factory, Azure Functions, and Snowflake, based on solution needs.

• Recommend, design and optimize Snowflake schemas, virtual warehouses, stages, file formats, streams, and tasks; develop ELT workloads using Python, SQL, and Snowflake where appropriate.

• Integrate data from APIs, files, relational databases, SaaS platforms. Disburses funds for loan actions

Quality, Testing & DevOps

• Build automated unit, integration, regression, and data-quality tests; participate in code reviews and technical design reviews.

• Use Git-based source control and CI/CD pipelines to promote code and configuration through development, test, and production environments.

Operations, Security & Performance

• Implement monitoring, logging, alerting, restartability, and runbooks; troubleshoot failures and perform root-cause analysis.

• Apply security-by-design practices, including managed identities, least-privilege access, secrets management, encryption, and appropriate handling of sensitive data.

• Tune data processing, storage, and compute for performance, reliability, and cost efficiency.

Data Collaboration

• Produce clear technical documentation, including architecture decisions, mappings, data contracts, support procedures, and deployment notes.

• Collaborate with business stakeholders, analysts, software engineers, platform teams, and governance partners to translate requirements into maintainable solutions

• Mentor, train and upskill other members of the team, share reusable patterns, and contribute to engineering standards and platform improvements.

Minimum Qualifying Characteristics:

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, IT, engineering or related field

• 5 years of related experience as a Data Engineer in a banking or financial institution or an equivalent combination of education and experience

• Professional experience designing and supporting data pipelines or data platforms in a cloud environment.

• Hands-on experience with core Azure data services, such as Azure Data Factory, Snowflake, or function-based/serverless processing.

• Experience with REST APIs, JSON, Parquet, CSV, and common data integration patterns.

• Experience with Git, pull requests, automated testing, and CI/CD practices.

• Strong Python development skills, including modular design, packaging, dependency management, testing, exception handling, logging, and performance-aware processing.

• Strong SQL skills and practical knowledge of relational modeling, dimensional modeling, query optimization, and data warehousing concepts.

• Working knowledge of cloud identity, access control, secrets management, monitoring, and operational support.

• Ability to work effectively in a distributed, collaborative engineering environment.

• Ability to communicate technical decisions clearly and work effectively across engineering and business teams.

• Ability to participate in an on-call or production-support rotation as defined by the team.

• Ability to perform planned deployment or maintenance work outside standard business hours when required.

Preferred:

• Experience with Snowflake data warehouse design, including virtual warehouses, stages, streams, tasks, secure data sharing, and performance optimization.

• Experience with orchestration frameworks.

• Experience implementing data observability, lineage, cataloging, master/reference data, or formal data-quality controls.

• Azure and Snowflake Certifications.

This position is full time, working approximately 40 hours a week, and is benefits eligible. Occasional travel may be required to sufficiently support other locations within territory.

Farm Credit of Southern Colorado is an Equal Opportunity Employer dedicated to diversity in the workplace and offers a great work environment. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, age, religion, sex, national origin, disability, or protected veteran status.

The following information is disclosed in compliance with the Colorado Equal Pay for Equal Work Act. Similar positions applied for outside of Colorado will not necessarily receive the same compensation.

Salary Range: $140,000-$160,000.

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Medical Care

Optional medical coverage provides three options of coverage through BlueCross/Blue Shield of Illinois with HSA & FSA options and telemedicine services.

Dental Care

Choose between Basic and Comprehensive dental plans provided by Delta Dental of Kansas. The basic plan provides benefits for diagnostic services, preventive, and basic care. The comprehensive plan provides basic coverage as well as more extensive dental care including orthodontia.

Vision Care Plan

Managed vision care available through Vision Service Plan. Select coverage for eye exams, lenses, frames, and contact lenses.

Gym Access/Fitness Reimbursement

Two FCSC locations have in-office gyms. Employees who report to offices without gyms are eligible for reimbursement to cover the cost of gym/fitness memberships up to a certain amount.

FCSC offers 3% and matches up to an additional 6% of your 401k contribution, fully vested after 4 years.

Long-Term Disability

This benefit is provided by Farm Credit of Southern Colorado at no cost to the employee. In the event an employee becomes disabled, they are eligible to collect 66.67% of current monthly base salary.

Business Travel Insurance

Employer-paid insurance covers accidental death or dismemberment that may occur while traveling on company business. Coverage is equal to three times an employee’s total compensation.

Basic Accidental Death and Dismemberment Insurance

Employer-paid insurance at one times an employee’s total compensation.

Group Universal Life Insurance

Optional coverage for up to 10 times your total compensation for yourself, or up to $250,000 for your spouse.

Dependent Life Insurance

Optional coverage for eligible dependent children up to $25,000.

Optional Employee Term Life and Accidental Death and Dismemberment Insurance

Optional coverage for an additional one times your total compensation.

Voluntary (Employee-Paid) Benefits

Voluntary enrollment in Accident, Critical Illness, Hospital Indemnity, and Identity Theft Insurance

Full-time employees accrue a minimum of 15 days annual leave depending on years of service and job grade

Full-time employees accrue 15 days of sick leave per year

Full-time employees are allocated two mental health days

Farm Credit of Southern Colorado typically recognizes 12 paid holidays through the year

Farm Credit of Southern Colorado recognizes and allows for medical leave, military leave, funeral leave in the event of death of a relative, and leave for court service, jury duty and other circumstances that require employees to be absent for reasons other than their own illnesses or injuries.

Annual Bonus

Team members are eligible to receive an annual bonus based on individual, team and organizational business results

Educational Assistance

Full-time employees with at least one year of tenure qualify for FCSC’s tuition reimbursement program, which covers costs of career-related courses.

Employee Discount Program

Employees are eligible for discounts provided by the Farm Credit system. Discounts may include auto rentals, auto purchases, auto insurance, computers, flowers, gourmet foods, home services, money planning, travel, and wireless services.

Community Giving

FCSC hosts an annual Pikes Peak United Way Donation Campaign and offers 16 hours of paid community service leave to each employee every year.