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🔌Integration Engineer / Systems Integrator — Wealth

You build a nightly ETL pipeline at an RIA aggregator that pulls positions from five custodians via API and reconciles t

Sourced from 7 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
$106k
$89k$129k 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

The same four lenses we use on every capability and skill page.

Comprehensive financial planning

4 operations
  • Client discovery & risk profiling

    annual

    An hour of structured questions surfaces goals, values, fears, family structure, and risk tolerance — captured in CRM, not on a notepad.

  • Data intake & account aggregation

    annual

    Tax returns parsed in minutes, accounts linked via aggregator, statements scanned — not 6 weeks of email back-and-forth.

  • Net worth & cash-flow build

    quarterly

    Household balance sheet and 12-month cash flow in one view, refreshed automatically from linked accounts.

  • 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 7 recent JDs)

You build a nightly ETL pipeline at an RIA aggregator that pulls positions from five custodians via API and reconciles them against the Orion PMS before morning advisor dashboards populate.

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