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Responsibilities You will serve as the primary architect and builder of AI-powered solutions within the Kraken Compliance team. This fullstack ownership role spans opportunity identification, solution design, deployment, governance, and capability transfer. The role requires strategic work to ''automate everything'' while building a datadriven compliance machine across multiple jurisdictions and products (crypto, payments, futures, equities, custody, margin). Architect and build agentic workflows using n8n, Claude API, Python, and MCP that take real actions in Compliance processes with human oversight and approval gates. Design and deliver solutions across priority compliance use cases: alert prescreening, case narrative generation, regulatory change summarization, EDD report drafting, and auditready documentation. Build scalable, automated analytics solutions that deliver highquality, repeatable risk insights for Compliance leadership and regulators. Apply AIenabled techniques for text analysis, transaction pattern recognition, and workflow automation to surface actionable signals from highvolume data. Build error handling, audit trails, regulatorycalendar awareness, and humanintheloop checkpoints into every production system before deployment. Ensure all automations comply with data classification requirements for customer PII, regulated financial data, and crossjurisdictional privacy obligations including GDPR and applicable AML data retention rules. Governance and Risk Classify all automation builds by risk tier before work begins. No build goes to production without a named Process Owner, documented data flows, access controls confirmed, and regulatory impact assessed. Maintain audit logging and documentation for all systems touching regulated data, SAR workflows, or sanctionsadjacent processes. Halt or redesign builds that introduce unacceptable regulatory, legal, or data privacy risk. Serve as the Compliance domain representative in contributing to governance standards, model risk management, and crossfunctional build alignment across the Automate Everything initiative. Multiply the Compliance Teams Capability Produce documentation, workflow templates, and runbooks that Compliance professionals can use and maintain without technical support. Train Compliance team members on AIassisted tools and workflows deployed in production. Drive adoption, not just delivery. Track and report on automation impact: alert review time reduced, case throughput increased, regulatory report cycle time shortened, and analyst capacity unlocked for higherrisk work. Act as a force multiplier for the Compliance team, enabling investigators and analysts to focus on highjudgment, highrisk decisions through process, technology, and AI enablement. Skills You Should HODL 8+ years of experience in Compliance operations, financial crime, regulatory technology, or a combined compliance and technical role with demonstrated seniorlevel execution. Strong fluency with AI and workflow automation tools, with demonstrated experience designing, deploying, and driving adoption of AI solutions within Compliance or RegTech workflows. Handson experience designing and deploying AIpowered or automated workflows in a production environment used by others, not just experimentation. Deep working knowledge of antifinancial crime (AML/CFT, sanctions, transaction monitoring systems), capital markets compliance (sales and trading, market conduct, transaction surveillance, conflicts management) and data privacy frameworks. Systems thinker with a strong implementation mindset able to move from discovery to design to build to deployment to optimization without relying on external consultants. Proficiency with AI tooling stack: n8n, Python, Claude API/Anthropic SDK, or equivalent. Experience connecting Compliance systems via API is required. Strong analytical problemsolving skills with the ability to structure ambiguous compliance questions into clear, actionable, automated analysis. Solid understanding of data classification, customer PII handling, and crossjurisdictional compliance obligations including GDPR, BSA, FATF standards, and applicable AML data retention requirements. Strong written and verbal communication skills. Able to translate technical automation solutions and complex analytical results for Compliance professionals, senior leadership, and regulators who are not technical. Nice to Haves Experience with case management platforms (Actimize, NICE Actimize, Quantexa, or equivalent) and their API or integration architecture. Experience using AI for document analysis, transaction narrative generation, or regulatory report drafting in a financial crime or compliance context. Familiarity with regulatory examination readiness: documentation standards, model risk governance, and audit trail requirements for AIassisted compliance decisions. Experience with spreadsheet automation (Google Apps Script or equivalent) and advanced proficiency in Excel and Google Sheets for compliance analytics. Python programming skills for transaction data analysis, risk scoring models, or compliance pipeline automation. Background in compliance technology platform administration: AML systems, KYC platforms, case management, markets business conduct or sanctions screening tools. Prior experience standing up or operating a RegTech, compliance automation, or financial crime analytics function. Experience in crypto, fintech, payments, capital markets or a regulated financial institution operating across multiple jurisdictions with exposure to FinCEN, SEC, FCA, MAS, or equivalent regulatory bodies. Unless a specific application deadline is stated in the job posting, applications are accepted on an ongoing basis. Please note, applicants are permitted to redact or remove information on their resume that identifies age, date of birth, or dates of attendance at or graduation from an educational institution. We consider qualified applicants with criminal histories for employment on our team, assessing candidates in a manner consistent with the requirements of the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance. As an equal opportunity employer, we dont tolerate discrimination or harassment of any kind. 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