Farther is a rapidly growing RIA that combines expert advisors with cutting-edge technology - delivering a comprehensive, tailored wealth management experience.
Farther’s founders are leaders and innovators from the private wealth industry who possess a unique blend of traditional wealth management, fintech, and technology production expertise. We’re backed by top-tier venture capital firms, fintech investors, and industry leaders.
Joining Farther means joining a collaborative team of entrepreneurs who are passionate about helping their clients and our teammates achieve more. If you’re the type who breaks through walls to get things done the right way, we want to build the future of wealth management with you.
We're hiring a Data Architect to design scalable, resilient data platforms that power our wealth management technology. As Farther hyperscales, we need someone to help evolve our data systems supporting real-time analytics, AI initiatives, and client reporting. You'll focus on platform design and implementation—not just ETL scripts—contributing to the foundation for our next phase of growth. You'll work directly with our Head of AI & ML Engineering and collaborate closely with our data team, providing dedicated architectural expertise to design and optimize the platforms that sit above the data layer.
Your Impact- Design and evolve scalable architectures for portfolios, positions, transactions, and financial models that support real-time analytics and AI
- Normalize and integrate complex data from custodians, vendors, and market feeds with focus on quality and performance
- Implement comprehensive data quality, lineage, and dependency tracking systems
- Architect caching, scaling, and enrichment pipelines designed for high performance and reusability
- Implement robust monitoring via metrics, logs, and traces to ensure system reliability
- Collaborate on data architecture roadmaps, evaluate vendor contracts, and conduct cost-benefit analysis
- Coordinate delivery across engineering, product, and data teams while setting clear goals and timelines
- Expert-level experience with AWS platforms and services
- Strong database design skills and advanced SQL proficiency
- Proficient in Python for data platform development
- Deep experience with time-series data, reference/market data, and vendor onboarding
- Proven experience in data modeling, orchestration, and scaling architectures
- Strong ability to coordinate across technical teams and drive delivery
- Experience setting goals, managing timelines, and delivering technical projects
- Experience in wealth management, financial services, or fintech environments
- Background with custodial data and financial reporting requirements
- Familiarity with real-time analytics and AI/ML data pipeline architectures
- Experience with data governance and compliance frameworks in regulated industries
- Track record in high-growth technology environments
- Everything you need to build the perfect dev station from hardware to software
- Learn & grow through book clubs, seminars, and peer learning sessions
- Full health benefits + 401(k) matching & Roth IRA options
- Unlimited PTO
- An amazing collaborative atmosphere between product, design, and engineering to solve hard problems together
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What We Do
Farther is the first to offer both the guidance of an experienced advisor and an elegant, easy-to-use platform – for a truly comprehensive approach to managing significant wealth.
"We are building the future of our industry by marrying cutting-edge technology with human expertise and judgment, so they bring out the best in each other: dramatically improving the wealth management experience for both advisors and clients." - Farther Co-Founders, Brad Genser & Taylor Matthews
Why Work With Us
At Farther, we're reinventing wealth management by uniting cutting-edge technology with transparent financial advice. Our advisors are freed from product-pushing mandates to focus on what matters: building authentic client relationships. Join our team to work with industry veterans who share a vision of transforming finance through innovation and i
