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Kraken Digital Asset Exchange

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1001 - 5000 employees

Founded 2011

₿ Crypto

💸 Finance

💳 Fintech

Crypto • Finance • Fintech

Kraken Digital Asset Exchange is a cryptocurrency platform that facilitates the buying and selling of over 200 cryptocurrencies, including Bitcoin, Ethereum, and many others. Founded in 2011, Kraken provides a comprehensive suite of features for both beginner and advanced traders, such as advanced trading interfaces and margin trading. The platform emphasizes industry-leading security, deep liquidity, and 24/7 customer support, making it a trusted choice for users worldwide. Kraken caters to individual investors as well as institutional clients, offering services like OTC trading and custody. The company is committed to transparency with its proof of reserves and mission-driven values. Kraken operates globally, supporting clients in over 190 countries, with a quarterly trading volume exceeding $207 billion. However, users are advised of the high risk of crypto investments and the lack of regulation in some jurisdictions.

📋 Description

• Collaborate on the technical coordination and stewardship layer for shared datasets and systems in scope for audit, including financial systems, recordkeeping, and downstream reporting processes. • Spearhead improvements to governance, communication, and coordination around upstream schema and logic changes affecting downstream systems and audit-related processes. • Support technical analysis and downstream impact assessment during change management for datasets, tables, and systems in scope for audit. • Develop and maintain reusable audit-ready dataset patterns, including automated validation, data quality checks, and monitoring. • Review audit-scoped processes and datasets, identify operational pain points, and propose reengineering and longer-term process improvements. • Provide technical guidance to business stakeholders and the Audit PM on specific audit requests. • Build ETL pipelines, dashboards, and audit-ready data architecture enabling data-driven audit testing.

🎯 Requirements

• 7+ years of experience in data analytics or data engineering, ideally supporting internal audit, risk, or SOX compliance functions in fintech, payments, financial markets, or crypto. • Experience managing and designing data architecture in a regulated environment. • Experience designing and building data pipelines with governance, traceability, and audit requirements considered from the outset. • Hands-on experience building and owning production data pipelines. • Strong familiarity with dbt and Airflow or equivalent orchestration tools. • Full mastery of SQL, including complex joins, CTEs, and analytical functions. • Strong Python proficiency for pipeline development and analysis. • Experience documenting technical and business requirements, including metadata, KPI definitions, business rules, data process flows, and data dictionaries. • Familiarity with job scheduling, error/exception handling, and troubleshooting production ETL workflows. • Experience partnering with Data Engineering and/or Data Governance teams on shared datasets, schema changes, and downstream impact analysis. • Ability to translate audit and business requirements into technical specifications and technical work into terms non-technical stakeholders understand. • Nice-to-have: experience scaling a data analytics function within an audit or risk organization. • Nice-to-have: familiarity with AI-assisted or automation tools for data quality checks, testing, or workflow efficiency. • Nice-to-have: familiarity with audit management platforms such as AuditBoard, Jira, or Workiva. • Applicants must select the city and country from which they will work and answer whether they need sponsorship to work in that location.

🏖️ Benefits

• Remote work arrangement • Opportunity to work for Payward/Kraken, a globally accessible financial infrastructure and crypto platform • Job-related skills or work-style assessments applied consistently during hiring • Equal opportunity employment and consideration of qualified applicants with criminal histories consistent with the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance