Fora Financial · 1 month ago
VP of Data and AI
United States
Full-time
Remote
Senior Level, Lead/Staff
$220K/yr - $260K/yr
10+ years expFora Financial is a technology-enabled leading provider of flexible financing to small and medium sized businesses. The VP of Data and AI will define and drive the long-term roadmap for the data ecosystem, oversee ingestion and data governance, and build a high-performing team in Data Engineering and Analytics Engineering.
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Responsibilities
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
Qualification
Required
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
Company
Fora Financial
Fora Financial provides flexible financing to small and medium-sized businesses to sustain and grow their enterprise.
51-200 employees
H1B Sponsorship
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2022 (1)
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Funding
Current Stage
Growth StageTotal Funding
$482.9MKey Investors
ATLAS SP PartnersTruist
2025-04-03Debt Financing· $16M
2024-12-10Debt Financing· $200M
2024-09-12Debt Financing· $126.9M
Leadership Team
Jared Feldman
Co-Founder - CEO
Daniel Smith
Co-Founder
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