Onsite | Finance Data Platform Engineer — $55–$80/hour
24-MAG · New York, NY
$55–$80/hrfrom the description
Jul 19, 2026
New York, NY
Jul 20, 2026
What this job asks for AI summary
A contract data engineering role embedded within the Finance organisation of an AI company, focused on building and maintaining PySpark pipelines that handle large volumes of structured financial data. Day-to-day work covers complex SQL engineering, data validation and reconciliation, production incident ownership, and close collaboration with Finance and engineering stakeholders to turn business requirements into reliable data infrastructure. Suited to engineers with a few years of hands-on production pipeline experience rather than BI or ML backgrounds.
Mid level · 2+ years · San Francisco-Oakland-Berkeley, CA · Bachelor's required · Contract
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How this req sits in the market our data
Roughly 180 people in the San Francisco-Oakland-Berkeley, CA area plausibly meet what this posting asks for (database architects). range 75–270
Applicant volume Moderate — A normal amount of company. The rare requirements below are what will separate a shortlisted application from the rest.
Most people in this occupation already list these. Still required — just not what gets you shortlisted.
What the occupation pays Median $179,727 (middle half $166,748–$216,836). This posting is about at that midpoint.
Estimated from BLS employment for this occupation and area, per-skill prevalence across our listing corpus, and published wage benchmarks — as of Jul 28, 2026. It is a model, not a headcount.
Why we read it this way (9)
The posting lists three possible onsite locations — San Francisco, CA; New York, NY; and Bellevue, WA — but names only one CBSA here. Hiring managers should note the role applies equally to the New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ-PA CBSA (35620) and the Seattle-Tacoma-Bellevue, WA CBSA (42660).
This is a W-2 contract engagement (full-time contingent employment) with an initial ~6-month term and extension potential, placed through staffing firm 24-MAG LLC.
The degree requirement is stated as required ('is required') but the posting immediately adds 'Equivalent specialised experience may be considered where appropriate' — a mild softener. The hard-required language was treated as the governing gate.
The 2–4 years experience range is framed as an 'Ideal Profile' description rather than a strict minimum gate, but it is the only experience figure given and was used as the overall years minimum.
Cloud data platforms, orchestration tools, pipeline monitoring, automated testing, and Git all appear exclusively under the 'Nice to Have' section.
The posting explicitly states this is NOT a BI, dashboard, reporting, or ML role — purely pipeline and data infrastructure engineering.
SOC 15-1243 (Database Architects) was chosen over 15-1252 (Software Developers) because the primary day-to-day work centres on data pipeline architecture, ETL/ELT design, data modelling, and financial data infrastructure — classic data engineering — rather than general application software development. 15-1252 is noted as a plausible alternative given the production engineering and coding emphasis.
Ignored 1 non-technology phrase(s) as skills (responsibilities/concepts, not named tools): workflow orchestration.
Posting is for a contract engagement — the market benchmarks below price full-time roles, so read the comp comparison with that in mind.
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