Senior Director, Compliance Tech & Data Systems

Coinbase, Inc.; Lincoln (NE); Hybrid; USD 230,000 - 271,000; Full time

Job summary

Coinbase, Inc. is seeking a senior technical leader to own and advance compliance data and control systems. You will set architecture, drive multi-year roadmaps, and balance regulatory requirements with reliability and customer experience.

You will lead cross-functional initiatives with Product, Engineering, Compliance, and Operations, while mentoring analytics teams and shaping technical direction for scalable, auditable data platforms.

Qualifications

• 10+ years building data-intensive systems with leadership in compliance data.
• Expertise in compliance data systems guiding architecture.
• Proven track record leading complex technical initiatives end-to-end.
• Experience building reliable data pipelines, data models, multi-tenant compliance controls at scale.
• Able to influence technical decisions without formal authority.
• Balance regulatory needs with system reliability and user experience.
• Experience evaluating detection or control performance and improvements.
• Hands-on implementation, code/design reviews, production troubleshooting.
• Clear communication with technical and nontechnical stakeholders.
• Translate long-term technical direction into executable plans.

Responsibilities

• Set technical direction for compliance data and control systems across domain.
• Define multi-year roadmaps aligned with regulatory requirements and growth.
• Frame ambiguous problems and choose cost-effective solutions.
• Lead cross-functional initiatives with Product, Engineering, Compliance, and Operations.
• Shape architectural decisions and raise engineering quality through reviews and docs.
• Translate regulatory requirements into testable controls with clear criteria.
• Own operational health: monitoring, incidents, remediation, data quality.
• Analyze detection outputs to improve signal quality and reduce noise.
• Collaborate with ML/AI and Platform teams for production performance.
• Mentor analytics and data practitioners.

Skills

Data-intensive systems

Technical leadership

Compliance data systems

Cross-functional collaboration

Hands-on implementation

Code and design reviews

Production troubleshooting

Incident leadership

AI tool judgment

Architectural decision making

Job description

Coinbase, Inc. is seeking a senior technical leader to own and advance compliance data and control systems. You will set architecture, drive multi-year roadmaps, and balance regulatory requirements with reliability and customer experience.

You will lead cross-functional initiatives with Product, Engineering, Compliance, and Operations, while mentoring analytics teams and shaping technical direction for scalable, auditable data platforms.