Senior Data Analyst, Compliance
Job Description:
- Own the logic and rule-setting behind transaction monitoring across deposits and withdrawals
- Partner with Compliance to study transaction patterns and refine detection logic
- Translate compliance requirements into production detection logic
- Maintain correctness across alert eligibility, thresholds, customer segmentation, date windows, and deduplication
- Develop and maintain Python and SQL pipelines for transaction data preparation, feature engineering, and detection workflows
- Evaluate detection rules and analytical models across coverage, alert quality, threshold sensitivity, and proposed-change impact
- Design reproducible historical-data evaluations accounting for limited labels, class imbalance, and changing customer behavior
- Own testing, deployment, scheduling, monitoring, and operational support for detection workflows
- Investigate data quality issues, pipeline failures, and unexpected detection-result changes
- Execute historical backfills with validation and traceability
- Maintain downstream alert delivery and integrations with compliance systems
- Experiment, test hypotheses, translate insights into action, and apply software engineering best practices to pipelines and dashboards
Requirements:
- 7+ years of experience in data analysis, data science, and data management within fintech, crypto, financial services, or gambling
- Experience in a fast-paced, high-growth environment
- Experience working with compliance, fraud, funding, finance, and customer support teams
- Experience analyzing large datasets, engineering features, and applying statistical methods
- Strong Python and SQL skills
- Experience building and supporting production data or analytical systems
- Hands-on experience with dbt or similar tooling
- Experience setting up and managing data pipelines and workflow orchestration
- Strong software engineering practices, including version control, automated testing, code review, and CI/CD
- Solid statistical foundation
- Proficiency with BI and data visualization tools such as Hex, Tableau, Power BI, or similar
- Ability to investigate production issues independently and communicate technical findings and uncertainty to non-technical stakeholders
- Degree in a field emphasizing analytical rigor, such as analytics, software engineering, statistics, or economics
- Based in Canada, the US, or Brazil
- Fluent in English
- Belief in Kraken's Tentaclements values
Benefits:
- Remote work arrangement
- Opportunity to work with a globally accessible open-finance and crypto infrastructure platform
- Work with a global, diverse team
- Job-related skills or work-style assessments applied consistently across candidates
- Equal opportunity employment
