Hiring: Sr. Data Analyst, Data & Audit Readiness Company: Kraken Location: United States Job Posted Time: 2026-09-16 13:39:06 Target Skills & Keywords : Airflow, Change Management, Data Pipeline, ETL, Jira, Python, SQL, dbt About the job Experience: •15 years building one of the most modern and globally accessible financial infrastructure platforms in the industry, built to advance an open, global financial system. •7+ years of experience in data analytics or data engineering, ideally supporting internal audit, risk, or SOX compliance functions within the fintech, payments, financial market or crypto where data quality and scale are non-negotiable. Required Skills: •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 that impact downstream systems and audit-related processes. •Support technical analysis and downstream impact assessment during the change management process to improve downstream visibility for datasets, tables, and systems in scope for audit. •Actively facilitate and support development and maintenance of reusable audit-ready dataset patterns, including automated validation, data quality checks, and monitoring. •Review processes and datasets in scope for Audit, examine existing operational pain points, and propose reengineering opportunities and longer-term process improvements. •Provide technical guidance to business stakeholders and the Audit PM around specific Audit requests. Qualifications: •Hands-on experience building and owning production data pipelines, with strong familiarity with dbt and Airflow or equivalent orchestration tools. •Full mastery of SQL including complex joins, CTEs and analytical functions, alongside strong Python proficiency for pipeline development and analysis. •Operational familiarity with data administration tasks: job scheduling, error/exception handling, and troubleshooting production ETL workflows. •Strong communicator who can translate audit and business requirements into technical specifications and translate technical work back into terms non-technical stakeholders understand. •Operational familiarity with AI-assisted or automation tools for data quality checks, testing, or workflow efficiency. •Operational familiarity with audit management platforms (e.g., AuditBoard, Jira, Workiva). •Unless a specific application deadline is stated in the job posting, applications are accepted on an ongoing basis. •Please note, applicants are permitted to redact or remove information on their resume that identifies age, date of birth, or dates of attendance at or graduation from an educational institution. •We consider qualified applicants with criminal histories for employment on our team, assessing candidates in a manner consistent with the requirements of the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance. Compensation: •$110,400 - $210,800 / year Interested candidates, please apply directly through the job posting on company's career page or try via AI auto apply on this platform. Don't miss this opportunity to join a forward-thinking team!