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Kraken, one of the world's longest-standing crypto platforms (founded 2011, trusted by 10+ million users), is seeking a Senior Analytics Engineer to join the Finance Data Eng & Analytics team within the Data Platform organization.
You will work at the intersection of data engineering and accounting, building trusted financial data products that reduce manual work and improve the close process. Your responsibilities include:
- Collaborate closely with Data Engineers, Finance, and Platform Accounting teams to improve reporting and decision-making through clear communication and adoption strategies.
- Partner with Finance to understand workflows, identify pain points, and translate business needs into practical data and automation solutions.
- Build and maintain automated workflows for data preparation, reconciliations, reporting, and follow-ups with clear controls, monitoring, and exception handling.
- Create intuitive dashboards and visualizations that enable stakeholders to understand performance, investigate issues, and make informed decisions.
- Resolve finance data issues and reconciliation breaks by working with Finance, Product, and Engineering teams, addressing root causes and communicating progress.
- Design and operate scalable, reliable pipelines to collect, transform, and curate data from internal platforms and external systems.
- Support the design and rollout of a trusted finance data lake with clear definitions, ownership, and quality checks.
- Improve data timeliness to enable near-real-time insights where they add business value.
- Evaluate new technologies, including AI-assisted automation, and prototype solutions to Finance needs that can be reliably supported in production.
Kraken is part of Payward, a parent company that has spent 15 years building one of the most modern and globally accessible financial infrastructure platforms, designed to advance an open, global financial system.
REQUIREMENTS:
- 7+ years of experience in data analytics and data management within financial services or a regulated industry, working directly with Finance teams.
- Strong SQL and Python skills, including writing, debugging, and maintaining production code.
- Solid experience with Git, merge requests, and code reviews, supported by strong software engineering practices including testing and documentation.
- Hands-on experience building and operating pipelines and models using dbt, Spark, Airflow, or comparable tools.
- Direct experience with finance or accounting data such as reconciliations, subledgers, cost basis, or month-end close, including investigating discrepancies and validating outputs with accounting stakeholders.
- Track record of owning pipelines end-to-end, making sound technical decisions, and improving reliability as requirements and systems evolve.
- Judgment and autonomy to lead complex work, navigate ambiguity, and remain accountable for production outcomes.
- Experience supporting recurring financial close activities with a proactive approach to identifying manual processes and replacing them with reliable, sustainable automation.
- Excellent communication skills with ability to collaborate across Engineering and Finance, explain complex technical issues, articulate financial implications, and recommend actionable solutions.
NICE TO HAVES:
- Experience with cryptocurrency transaction data and how digital-asset activity flows into financial records and reconciliations.
- Experience processing large volumes of financial transactions using distributed frameworks such as Spark or PySpark.
