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Ep 3: Alla Piltser – how big banks tackle data cloud migration and exploding platform costs
Alla Piltser, Bank of America's former Managing Director of Tech Infra, shares insights from her 35 year career in financial services technology and the critical shifts happening today in big banks’ data platforms.
Alla and Roy dive into how financial institutions are navigating data platform priorities for 2026. They discuss proven techniques for avoiding costly migration failures, the foundational capabilities to unlock proactive finops and cost optimizations, the essential role of quality data in GenAI success, and why "shifting left" on data governance is becoming non-negotiable for banks.
Chapters:
00:00 - Introduction
08:13 - The cost optimization crisis and proactive FinOps
13:17 - The cloud migration challenges and misconceptions
17:51 - Data governance, compliance, and regulatory requirements at scale
24:11 - Driving innovation in financial services
29:23 - Biggest career mistake and top advice
Alla Piltser is a former Managing Director of Global Tech Infra at Bank of America. She has a 35 year career in financial services technology and data, and is currently a senior advisor to FInServ technology leaders around cloud migrations, stack optimization and transformation, and cybersecurity.
Roy Daniel is the Co-Founder & CEO of definity – the optimization and observability platform for the Lakehouse and Spark ecosystem.
Subscribe to Data Innovators for more conversations with technical data leaders solving complex challenges across the data ecosystem.
#DataInnovators #DataPlatforms #CloudMigration #CostOptimization #DataGovernance #FinancialServices #Podcast #definity
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By definityAlla Piltser, Bank of America's former Managing Director of Tech Infra, shares insights from her 35 year career in financial services technology and the critical shifts happening today in big banks’ data platforms.
Alla and Roy dive into how financial institutions are navigating data platform priorities for 2026. They discuss proven techniques for avoiding costly migration failures, the foundational capabilities to unlock proactive finops and cost optimizations, the essential role of quality data in GenAI success, and why "shifting left" on data governance is becoming non-negotiable for banks.
Chapters:
00:00 - Introduction
08:13 - The cost optimization crisis and proactive FinOps
13:17 - The cloud migration challenges and misconceptions
17:51 - Data governance, compliance, and regulatory requirements at scale
24:11 - Driving innovation in financial services
29:23 - Biggest career mistake and top advice
Alla Piltser is a former Managing Director of Global Tech Infra at Bank of America. She has a 35 year career in financial services technology and data, and is currently a senior advisor to FInServ technology leaders around cloud migrations, stack optimization and transformation, and cybersecurity.
Roy Daniel is the Co-Founder & CEO of definity – the optimization and observability platform for the Lakehouse and Spark ecosystem.
Subscribe to Data Innovators for more conversations with technical data leaders solving complex challenges across the data ecosystem.
#DataInnovators #DataPlatforms #CloudMigration #CostOptimization #DataGovernance #FinancialServices #Podcast #definity