Senior Data Analyst, Compliance

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in Canada, +2 more countries.

📋 Description

• Take ownership of the logic and rule-setting for transaction monitoring related to deposits and withdrawals.

• Collaborate with Compliance to analyze transaction trends and enhance detection logic.

• Convert compliance requirements into actionable detection logic for production use.

• Ensure accuracy across alert eligibility, thresholds, customer segmentation, date windows, and deduplication processes.

• Create and manage Python and SQL pipelines for preparing transaction data, feature engineering, and detection workflows.

• Assess detection rules and analytical models based on coverage, alert quality, threshold sensitivity, and the impact of proposed changes.

• Design reproducible evaluations of historical data while accounting for limited labels, class imbalance, and evolving customer behavior.

• Oversee testing, deployment, scheduling, monitoring, and operational support for detection workflows.

• Investigate issues related to data quality, pipeline failures, and unexpected changes in detection results.

• Conduct historical backfills with validation and traceability.

• Ensure proper delivery of downstream alerts and integration with compliance systems.

• Experiment, test hypotheses, translate insights into actionable steps, and implement software engineering best practices in pipelines and dashboards.

⛳️ Requirements

• Over 7 years of experience in data analysis, data science, and data management within fintech, crypto, financial services, or gambling sectors.

• Proven experience in a dynamic, high-growth environment.

• Experience collaborating with compliance, fraud, funding, finance, and customer support teams.

• Skilled in analyzing large datasets, engineering features, and utilizing statistical methods.

• Proficient in Python and SQL.

• Background in building and supporting production data or analytical systems.

• Practical experience with dbt or similar tools.

• Experience in setting up and managing data pipelines and orchestrating workflows.

• Strong adherence to software engineering practices, including version control, automated testing, code review, and CI/CD.

• Solid understanding of statistical principles.

• Familiarity with BI and data visualization tools such as Hex, Tableau, Power BI, or similar platforms.

• Capability to independently investigate production issues and convey technical findings and uncertainties to non-technical stakeholders.

• Degree in a field emphasizing analytical rigor, such as analytics, software engineering, statistics, or economics.

• Must be based in Canada, the US, or Brazil.

• Fluent in English.

• Alignment with Kraken's Tentaclements values.

🏝️ Benefits

• Flexible remote work options.

• Opportunity to engage with a globally accessible open-finance and crypto infrastructure platform.

• Collaborate with a diverse, global team.

• Consistent application of job-related skills or work-style assessments across candidates.

• Commitment to equal opportunity employment.