Senior Data Analyst improving transaction monitoring and compliance detection at Kraken, a global crypto-finance platform. Building Python and SQL pipelines, evaluations, dashboards, and alert workflows.
Responsibilities
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
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