Fora Financial
OR, USA
A Day in the Life of a VP of Data and AI 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...


