Senior Data Platform Lead - AI-Ready Data & Governance

Farther; New York (NY); Hybrid; USD 170,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

Farther is seeking a Senior Manager, Data Engineering to own and scale the firm's data platform—covering custodial pipelines, security master, and canonical financial models used by downstream systems.

You will define the roadmap, lead and grow the data engineering team, and drive data quality, governance, and multi-vendor reference data across custodians like Schwab, Fidelity, and Pershing. NYC-based, on-site role.

Qualifications

• 8+ years in data platform roles, with 4+ years managing data teams.
• Deep security master experience — instrument reference data, corporate actions, multi-vendor golden-source resolution
• Prior experience on the data team at a broker/dealer
• Exceptional data modeling skills — schemas that are correct, extensible, and built to last
• Strong hands-on expertise with PostgreSQL, AWS, and Python
• A builder's mindset — energized by scaling a strong foundation into something category-defining

Responsibilities

• Own the data platform roadmap — from custodial ingestion through the security master to AI-ready data products
• Lead and grow the data engineering team, setting the bar for technical quality
• Own the firm's security master: reference data, corporate actions, and golden-source resolution across vendors
• Design canonical models unifying accounts, positions, and transactions across custodians
• Drive data quality, reconciliation, lineage, and governance across regulated datasets

Skills

Data platform leadership

Data team management

Data modeling

PostgreSQL

AWS

Python

Broker-dealer data

Canonical data models

Collaboration

Tools

AWS Bedrock

Anthropic

S3

Lambda

Job description

Farther is seeking a Senior Manager, Data Engineering to own and scale the firm's data platform—covering custodial pipelines, security master, and canonical financial models used by downstream systems.

You will define the roadmap, lead and grow the data engineering team, and drive data quality, governance, and multi-vendor reference data across custodians like Schwab, Fidelity, and Pershing. NYC-based, on-site role.