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Architects and develops AI-powered systems, tools, agents, backend services, APIs, and experimentation frameworks using foundational AI models. Integrates AI capabilities with microservices, AWS, Snowflake, and complex data systems while ensuring scalability, reliability, and maintainability. Translates business problems into technical solutions, prototypes AI applications, collaborates with product and engineering teams, evaluates emerging AI technologies, and documents system designs and integration patterns.

Conduct manual penetration tests and secure code reviews across web applications, APIs, AWS infrastructure, and AI systems. Develop AI-assisted security tooling, test LLM applications and agents, triage SAST findings, tune detection rules, support security reviews before production, and communicate risks and remediation priorities to engineering teams.

Leads the Enterprise PMO, establishing intake, governance, reporting, risk, dependency, resource planning, budgeting, and portfolio review practices. Partners with Product, Engineering, Analytics, Finance, and executives to prioritize initiatives, manage capacity, surface delivery risks, and communicate portfolio performance. Manages and develops project managers, builds PMO operating maturity, and uses AI to automate Product Operations workflows.

Drive high-volume outbound re-engagement of paid-in-full merchants to generate new funding opportunities. Use CRM (Salesforce) and auto-dialer tools, analyze performance metrics, mentor junior reps, collaborate with cross-functional teams, pilot beta technologies, and meet strict activity, conversion, and quota targets.

Manage a portfolio of small and medium business customers to grow relationships and identify additional capital solutions. Analyze business and financial histories, own the sales process from approval to close, use data to prioritize opportunities, and meet monthly quota in a fast-paced environment.

Lead and deliver end-to-end data science projects: design, build, deploy, and monitor ML/statistical models for credit risk, pricing, collections, and fraud. Partner with cross-functional teams to integrate models into production, set model development standards, mentor engineers, and maintain reliable ML pipelines and monitoring systems.

Leads Forward’s application and product security program, including a team of senior engineers, penetration testing, vulnerability remediation, secure SDLC practices, and AI security. Owns testing standards, remediation workflows, exposure controls, pre-production security reviews, and security services. Partners with Engineering and executives to communicate risk and priorities while securing web applications, APIs, cloud infrastructure, and AI-built software.

Manage security operations and lead a security engineering team defending endpoints, SaaS, infrastructure, and corporate systems. Serve as senior Incident Commander, oversee detection and response using CrowdStrike, conduct cybersecurity risk assessments, and improve vulnerability, patch, access, and configuration management. Build detection coverage across endpoint, identity, SaaS, and cloud signals while partnering with AppSec and technical leaders. Lead the company’s AI security strategy and develop specialized security capabilities.

Design, build, and operate a low-latency online feature store and supporting batch/streaming pipelines. Optimize Postgres schemas and real-time serving for ML models, improve scalability, reliability, and observability, mentor junior engineers, and partner with data science, analytics, product, and application teams to deliver production-grade MLOps solutions.

This role is responsible for prospecting and converting financing applications, engaging with small business owners, and driving measurable sales results through lead conversion.