Senior Data Architect for Audit-Ready Pipelines

Kraken; United States; On-site; USD 110,000 - 211,000; Full time

Job summary

Kraken is seeking an experienced Data Architect to join the Data & Audit Readiness team. You will own inventories, catalogs, and access processes to keep datasets audit-ready, building ETL pipelines and audit-ready data architecture from day one.

You will collaborate on governance, upstream schema changes, and downstream impact analysis, with hands-on responsibility for data pipelines, dashboards, and testing in a regulated fintech environment.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of experience in data analytics or data engineering, ideally supporting internal audit, risk, or SOX compliance.
• Experience managing and designing data architecture in a regulated environment with governance, traceability, and audit requirements.
• Hands-on experience building and owning production data pipelines, with dbt and Airflow or equivalent.
• Full mastery of SQL including complex joins, CTEs and analytical functions, alongside strong Python proficiency for pipeline development and analysis.
• Experience documenting technical and business requirements, including metadata, KPI definitions, business rules, data process flows, and data dictionaries.
• Familiarity with data administration tasks: job scheduling, error/exception handling, and troubleshooting production ETL workflows.
• Experience partnering with Data Engineering and/or Data Governance teams on shared datasets, schema changes, and downstream impact analysis.
• Strong communicator who can translate audit and business requirements into technical specifications and translate technical work back into terms non-technical stakeholders understand.

Responsibilities

• 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.
• Support the 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.

Skills

SQL

Python

dbt

Airflow

Data pipelines

Communication

Governance

Tools

dbt

Airflow

Job description

Kraken is seeking an experienced Data Architect to join the Data & Audit Readiness team. You will own inventories, catalogs, and access processes to keep datasets audit-ready, building ETL pipelines and audit-ready data architecture from day one.

You will collaborate on governance, upstream schema changes, and downstream impact analysis, with hands-on responsibility for data pipelines, dashboards, and testing in a regulated fintech environment.