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Kraken, a leading crypto platform founded in 2011 and part of the Payward group, is seeking a Senior Technical Program Manager for Data & Audit Readiness. This individual contributor role sits within the Data & Audit Readiness team and serves as the program management and coordination layer between the Data team and internal Audit, Risk, Security, Finance, Compliance, and external auditors.
You will own the inventories, playbooks, catalogs, and access processes that keep the Data team's systems and datasets audit-ready. This is a hands-on coordination role where you translate audit engagements directly into coordinated, well-documented responses. Key responsibilities include:
- Act as the program management layer for the Data team during audits, interfacing with internal Audit coordination teams, Finance, Compliance, and external auditors
- Own audit readiness as a continuous, always-on practice by proactively maintaining inventories, playbooks, and catalogs between audits
- Create and manage an inventory of audit tests, expected requests, and response playbooks for Data team-owned systems and processes
- Maintain a catalog of data sources in scope for audit, including known issues, readiness status, and improvement areas, supported by ongoing testing and mock audits
- Align closely with business stakeholders such as Finance, Security, and Compliance to provide guidance and coordination support during audit activities
- Implement tagging and governance processes in collaboration with Data Governance to identify endorsed datasets and audit-ready tables
- Manage auditor data access roles to ensure they are fit for purpose
You bring 7+ years of experience in program or project management, audit coordination, or data governance, ideally within a regulated or heavily audited environment in financial services. You have hands-on experience with SOC, SOX, IT general controls, or other regulatory audit frameworks, and have coordinated audit engagements or acted as a liaison between technical teams and Internal Audit, Risk, Compliance, or external auditors. Strong organizational skills, familiarity with data cataloging and governance practices, understanding of data access management principles, and excellent written and verbal communication are essential. Nice-to-haves include audit management platform experience, knowledge of automated control design, prior experience building or scaling SOC/SOX systems in hyper-growth environments, and relevant certifications like PMP or CAPM.
