# AI-Native Data Platform Engineer

**Company:** [Farther Finance](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/farther-finance)
**Location:** New York, NY
**Role:** Data Engineering
**Experience:** 5+ years
**Skills:** SQL, Python, AWS, Redshift, Glue, S3, AWS Lambda, Opensearch, Embeddings, Vector Databases, RAG, MLOps, Prompt Engineering
**Posted:** 2026-04-16

> Designs and owns canonical data foundations, ingestion pipelines, and AI-ready schemas for financial AI systems in wealth management. Requires 5+ years data platform experience, SQL/Python expertise, custodial data knowledge, and AWS proficiency.

## Job Description

## Responsibilities

- Design scalable ingestion pipelines across custodians (Schwab, Fidelity, Pershing, etc.) and internal financial systems
- Build and evolve canonical models for accounts, positions, transactions, balances, corporate actions, and household hierarchies
- Define financial data ontology and enforce strong data contracts across services
- Implement reconciliation frameworks and golden-source resolution across multi-vendor datasets
- Engineer AI-ready data layers optimized for embeddings, vector search, and RAG architectures
- Structure financial datasets to improve prompt reliability and LLM output consistency
- Architect closed-loop, agent-driven systems that monitor, reason over, and autonomously remediate data inconsistencies
- Implement observability, lineage, governance, and fine-grained access controls across regulated datasets

## Requirements

- 5+ years building production-grade data platforms
- Deep SQL expertise and strong Python for data engineering
- Experience designing canonical schemas and resolving vendor data inconsistencies
- Strong understanding of custodial financial data (positions, trades, balances, performance, corporate actions)
- Familiarity with embeddings, vector databases, and retrieval architectures
- Exposure to prompt engineering and structured context design for LLM systems
- Knowledge of MLOps fundamentals (versioning, monitoring, reproducibility)
- Comfortable with AWS data services (S3, Lambda, ECS, Glue, Redshift, OpenSearch) and event-driven orchestration
- Strong ownership mindset and systems-level thinking

## Nice-to-Haves

- Wealth management or capital markets background
- Experience integrating OpenAI or Anthropic APIs into production systems
- Experience designing retrieval schemas for AI agents
- Experience with authorization and policy platforms (e.g., OSO, Auth0)
- Experience implementing fine-grained access control for AI-driven systems
- Familiarity with GitHub-based CI/CD workflows and automation
- Experience with data governance, lineage, and compliance controls

## Benefits

- Full health benefits + 401(k) matching & Roth IRA options
- Unlimited PTO

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