Sr. Technical Program Manager, Data & Audit Readiness at Kraken answer
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<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><h2><strong>The team</strong></h2><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">Payward's Data team builds and operates the data infrastructure, pipelines, and analytics platforms that power decision-making, reporting, and controls across the business. The team partners closely with functions across the company, including Risk & Audit, IT, Finance, and Engineering, to make sure the data those functions depend on is reliable, well-governed, and ready to stand up to scrutiny.</p><p style="min-height:1.5em">This role sits within the Data & Audit Readiness team and is dedicated to acting 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, translating audit engagements directly into coordinated, well-documented responses. This is a hands-on coordination role where you will build the inventories, playbooks, and governance processes that let the Data team turn audit requests into a repeatable, provable state of readiness.</p><p style="min-height:1.5em">This is an individual contributor role with no direct reports, sitting under the Director, Regulatory Analytics & Reporting.</p><p style="min-height:1.5em"></p><h2><strong>The opportunity</strong></h2><ul style="min-height:1.5em"><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Act as the program management layer for the Data team during audits, interfacing with internal Audit coordination teams (Risk and Security), Finance, Compliance, and external auditors.</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Own audit readiness as a continuous, always-on practice. Proactively maintaining inventories, playbooks, and catalogs between audits, not only once one is actively underway.</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Create and manage an inventory of audit tests, expected requests, and response playbooks for Data team–owned systems and processes.</p>