Senior Staff, Compliance Technology

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in United States.

📋 Description

• Establish the technical direction for compliance data and control systems, spearheading the design, implementation, and operation of large-scale solutions that support global compliance requirements.

• Develop and deliver multi-year technical roadmaps that align with regulatory mandates, business expansion, and operational scalability.

• Frame ambiguous technical challenges, assess alternatives, and balance control effectiveness, data quality, reliability, customer experience, and operational costs.

• Lead intricate cross-functional initiatives involving Product, Engineering, Compliance, and Operations teams.

• Foster alignment on technical strategies, resolve competing priorities, and drive delivery without relying on direct reporting authority.

• Influence architectural decisions through technical expertise, hands-on development, design reviews, technical documentation, and reusable methodologies.

• Convert regulatory and policy requirements into testable technical controls complete with acceptance criteria, traceable data, and evidence of effectiveness.

• Manage operational health, incorporating monitoring, incident response, remediation, data-quality issue detection, and enhancements to control degradation.

• Analyze detection outputs and control performance trends to enhance signal quality and operational efficiency.

• Collaborate with Machine Learning/AI and Platform teams to bolster compliance capabilities and track production performance.

• Mentor analytics and data practitioners through technical guidance, reviews, and knowledge sharing.

⛳️ Requirements

• A minimum of 10 years of experience in developing data-intensive systems, with substantial technical leadership in compliance data and control systems.

• Extensive knowledge in compliance data systems.

• Proven track record as a trusted technical resource influencing architectural decisions and resolving critical cross-functional challenges.

• Experience in independently leading complex technical initiatives from problem definition and design to implementation, rollout, and production operation.

• Experience in building reliable data pipelines, data models, and scalable multi-tenant compliance controls or systems.

• Strong practices in data quality, testing, and auditability.

• Ability to influence technical decisions and align stakeholders from Product, Engineering, Compliance, and Operations without formal authority.

• Excellent technical judgment in balancing regulatory and control requirements with reliability, customer experience, delivery constraints, and operational efficiency.

• Experience in evaluating detection or control performance, investigating degradation, and validating improvements to signal quality and effectiveness.

• Strong hands-on abilities in implementation, code and design review, technical writing, production troubleshooting, and incident leadership.

• Capability to connect long-term technical direction with short-term execution and determine strategies in ambiguous scenarios.

• Excellent communication skills for conveying complex technical and compliance issues, presenting trade-offs, and fostering agreement among technical and non-technical stakeholders.

• Sound judgment in utilizing AI tools, including reviewing outputs and safeguarding sensitive data.

• A passion for developing an open financial system that unites the world.

🏝️ Benefits

• Eligibility for bonuses.

• Medical insurance coverage.

• Dental insurance coverage.

• Vision insurance coverage.

• 401(k) retirement plan.

• Quarterly in-person working sessions (“surges”).

• Reasonable accommodations for individuals with disabilities.

• Complimentary compatible screen reader for applicants requiring screen-reading technology.