Sr Data Analyst Data and Audit Readiness
Payward, Inc. is the parent company and operating platform behind Kraken and a portfolio spanning trading, custody, payments, lending, tokenized assets, onchain finance, and benchmarks.
Maintainer signals as of 9/25/2026
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About Payward, Inc.
Payward operates unified financial infrastructure across crypto and traditional markets, including shared liquidity, risk and margin systems, collateral and settlement, compliance, and licensing. Its first-party portfolio includes Kraken, Kraken Pro, NinjaTrader, Breakout, xStocks, Payward Services, CF Benchmarks, Reap, Krak, Kraken Prime, Kraken OTC, Kraken Custody, and Bitnomial.
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About the Role
You will own audit-readiness inventories, playbooks, catalogs, and access processes for data systems and datasets. You will build ETL pipelines, dashboards, data-quality checks, and audit-ready architecture while assessing downstream impacts, documenting requirements, and translating audit needs into technical solutions.
Requirements
- 7+ years of experience in data analytics or data engineering
- Experience supporting internal audit, risk, or SOX compliance functions
- Data architecture experience in a regulated environment
- Production data pipeline development and ownership
- dbt
- Airflow or equivalent orchestration tools
- Advanced SQL
- Python
- Technical and business requirements documentation
- Metadata and data dictionary documentation
- ETL workflow scheduling and troubleshooting
- Data governance
- Downstream impact analysis
- Stakeholder communication
Responsibilities
- Collaborate on technical coordination and stewardship for audit-scoped datasets and systems
- Improve governance and coordination around schema and logic changes
- Assess downstream impacts of data and system changes
- Develop reusable audit-ready dataset patterns
- Automate validation, data-quality checks, and monitoring
- Review audit-scoped processes and datasets
- Propose process improvements and reengineering opportunities
- Provide technical guidance on audit requests
Benefits
- Bonus program
- Equity program
- Wellness allowance
- Medical insurance
- Dental insurance
- Vision insurance
- 401(k)