Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Kraken is one of the world's longest-standing crypto platforms, trusted by over 10 million individuals and institutions. The Sr. Technical Program Manager for Data & Audit Readiness will act as a program management layer between the Data team and various stakeholders, ensuring audit readiness and managing documentation and processes for audits.
Responsibilities
- 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
- Own audit readiness as a continuous, always-on practice. Proactively maintaining inventories, playbooks, and catalogs between audits, not only once one is actively underway
- 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 areas for improvement, supported by ongoing testing including mock testing and identification of areas requiring reengineering
- 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 tables considered 'audit ready.'
- Manage the auditor data access role to ensure access is fit for purpose
Skills
- 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
- Experience with SOC, SOX, IT general controls, or other regulatory audit frameworks
- Experience coordinating audit engagements or acting as a liaison between technical teams and Internal Audit, Risk, Compliance, or external auditors
- Strong organizational skills, with experience building and maintaining inventories, playbooks, or documentation for recurring cross-functional processes
- Familiarity with data cataloging, tagging, or governance practices, and how they support audit readiness and control certification
- Understanding of data access management principles and the ability to evaluate whether access is fit for purpose
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to produce documentation that satisfies both technical stakeholders and auditors
- Familiarity with audit management platforms (e.g., AuditBoard, Jira, Workiva)
- Knowledge of automated control design and control automation
- Prior experience building or scaling a SOC, SOX or a control system in a hyper-growth or first-year SOX company
- PMP, CAPM, or similar program/project management certification
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