Senior Data Analyst, Compliance

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Senior Data Analyst improving transaction monitoring and compliance intelligence at Kraken, a global crypto and open-finance platform. Building Python, SQL, and dashboarding systems.

Responsibilities:

  • Own the logic and rule-setting behind transaction monitoring across deposits and withdrawals
  • Partner with Compliance to study patterns and refine detection logic
  • Translate compliance requirements into production detection logic
  • Preserve 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 customer-behaviour shifts
  • Own testing, deployment, scheduling, monitoring, and operational support for detection workflows
  • Investigate data quality issues, pipeline failures, and unexpected changes in detection results
  • Execute historical backfills with clear validation and traceability
  • Maintain reliable 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 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
  • Understanding of workflow orchestration
  • 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 analytics, software engineering, statistics, economics, or another field emphasizing analytical rigor
  • Based in Canada, the US, or Brazil
  • Fluent in English
  • Experience with fraud detection, AML, anomaly detection, or other risk applications is a nice-to-have
  • Experience with Athena, Trino, Kafka, Kubernetes, Airflow, dbt, and S3 is a nice-to-have
  • Experience with transaction pattern analysis, customer segmentation, and detection threshold tuning is a nice-to-have
  • Experience developing or productionising machine learning models is a nice-to-have
  • Experience evaluating detection with sparse or delayed investigation feedback is a nice-to-have
  • Experience with explainability, auditability, and change control in regulated environments is a nice-to-have

Benefits:

  • Bonus program
  • Equity program
  • Wellness allowance
  • Medical insurance
  • Dental insurance
  • Vision insurance
  • 401(k)
  • Job-related skills or work-style assessments as part of the hiring process
  • Equal opportunity employment