VP of Data and AI
Fora Financial
full-time
Posted on:
Location Type: Remote
Location: Remote • 🇺🇸 United States
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💰 $220,000 - $260,000 per year
Job Level
Lead
Tech Stack
CloudSQL
About the role
- Define and drive the long-term roadmap for our data ecosystem, covering ingestion, modeling, governance, observability, and BI.
- Own and evolve our existing Debezium-based CDC infrastructure, ensuring reliability, scalability, and strong schema-change handling.
- Oversee ingestion from SQL Server and cloud storage; extend ingestion to additional data sources and third-party systems.
- Build and lead a best-in-class team across Data Engineering, Analytics Engineering, and future Data Science/ML Engineering.
- Partner with Risk to deliver reproducible training-ready datasets—feature sets, label pipelines, temporal models, monitoring tables.
- Architect data foundations that support ML and AI workloads, including feature pipelines, embedding/vector layers, and model governance.
- Establish and enforce data governance: semantic consistency, naming conventions, data contracts, PII handling, lineage, and access controls.
- Drive performance and cost optimization across Snowflake, transformations, ingestion workflows, and BI workloads.
- Ensure the BI layer is reliable, governed, and trustable, with well-modeled marts and consistent metrics.
- Set technical standards, mentor team members, and create a culture of high-quality, testable, maintainable data work.
Requirements
- 10+ years across data engineering, analytics engineering, ML infrastructure, or related fields; 3–5+ years in leadership.
- Proven experience scaling Snowflake and DBT in production.
- Strong background with SQL Server ingestion patterns, cloud-storage pipelines, and SaaS data integrations.
Benefits
- Attractive company subsidized Medical, Dental and Vision plans with leading insurance providers
- 401K Plan with Company Match
- Life Insurance at No Cost to Employees
- Generous Time Off Plan Including Rollover Vacation Days
- Commuter Benefits
- Health Care and Dependent Care Flexible Spending
- Weekly breakfast, snacks and Friday lunches provided onsite
- Remote working model
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard skills
data engineeringanalytics engineeringML infrastructureSnowflakeDBTSQL Serverdata ingestiondata modelingdata governancefeature pipelines
Soft skills
leadershipmentoringteam buildingcommunicationcollaborationorganizational skillsproblem-solvingperformance optimizationcost optimizationculture building