AI Agents Solutions Architect - Finance at Kraken

<h1><strong>Building the Future of Open Finance</strong><br /></h1><p style="min-height:1.5em">Payward - the parent company behind Kraken, NinjaTrader, Breakout, xStocks, Payward Services and CF Benchmarks - has spent the last 15 years building one of the most modern and globally accessible financial infrastructure platforms in the industry, built to advance an open, global financial system.</p><p style="min-height:1.5em"><br />Before you apply, we encourage you to explore our <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://www.kraken.com/culture"><u>culture page</u></a> to understand what drives us and how we work.</p><h1><strong>The Team</strong></h1><p style="min-height:1.5em">Founded in 2011, Kraken is one of the world's longest-standing crypto platforms, trusted by over 10 million individuals and institutions across the globe. It offers spot trading, margin, futures, staking, and OTC services, with products built for both individual investors and institutional clients.</p><p style="min-height:1.5em">Kraken's Global Finance team is the operational backbone of one of the world's most trusted and longest-standing crypto exchanges. The team spans accounting, FP&amp;A, treasury, tax, and finance operations across multiple regulated entities and 70+ countries, managing the financial infrastructure that underpins everything from daily close to regulatory reporting to crypto-native asset reconciliation.</p><p style="min-height:1.5em">As financial complexity grows with Kraken's global footprint, this role architectures and provides hands-on building to scale growth. Finance operations at a globally regulated crypto exchange managing close cycles, reconciliations, reporting, treasury monitoring, and controls validation all generate substantial manual effort tied to critical financial and regulatory obligations. Errors carry audit, SOX, security ,and regulatory consequences.</p><div style="min-height:1.2em;margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0"> </div><h1><strong>The Opportunity</strong></h1><div style="min-height:1.2em;margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0"> </div><p style="min-height:1.5em">You will serve as the primary architect and builder of the AI-native finance operating system at Kraken. This role spans two simultaneous horizons: deploying production automation now and redesigning the finance architecture for the long term. Responsibilities span five core areas:</p><div style="min-height:1.2em;margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0"> </div><h2><strong>Assess and map Finance operations</strong></h2><ul style="min-height:1.5em"><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Evaluate how financial work currently flows across the organization, including close, reconciliations, treasury, reporting, controls validation, and audit preparation.</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Identify capability gaps, manual bottlenecks, and integration failure points across systems including NetSuite, BlackLine, Kyriba, Fireblocks, and Lukka.</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em"