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🪣Data Engineer — Advisor Platforms

You rebuild the nightly custodial ingestion pipeline at a $15B AUM RIA aggregator, replacing fragile FTP scripts with a

Sourced from 10 recent JDs · snapshot taken 2026-06-20

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What this role pays — by city, years & skill stack

New York · Wall Street + wirehouses + a fintech bench
$121k
$94k$156k median band

Illustrative ranges — calibrated from Levels.fyi, Glassdoor and Robert Half wealth-tech guides. Real offers vary widely by firm, equity, and team. Use this to compare cities & skill stacks, not as a quote.

How the work gets done

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Comprehensive financial planning

1 operation
  • Ongoing plan refresh & alerts

    monthly

    Plan auto-refreshes off custodial + aggregator feeds; alerts fire on drift from goal, life-event triggers, or assumption breaches.

Day-in-the-life

Day-in-the-life (sourced from 10 recent JDs)

You rebuild the nightly custodial ingestion pipeline at a $15B AUM RIA aggregator, replacing fragile FTP scripts with a Databricks-based medallion architecture that cuts data latency from 6 hours to 45 minutes.

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