Skip to content
ITA Jobs
All vacancies
Kraken logo

Head of Financial Systems Engineering

Kraken

Remote · United States$11,183–24,908 gross/mofull-timeKraken Careers

What you will tackle first In your first year, you’ll build the foundations for a more reliable, scalable Finance architecture: Move key reconciliations from a monthly to a daily cadence, with clear ownership and a process for resolving exceptions Reduce the time needed to find the root cause of reconciliation breaks from weeks to days Map and validate the source tables and transformations that actually feed financial statements, establishing lineage and ownership Complete the UAT data lake connections needed to test financial data flows end to end before changes reach production What you…

Responsibilities

  • Lead, coach, and grow a team of specialists across financial systems, data engineering, integrations, and ledger-related services. Establish clear ownership and develop technical leaders
  • Set standards for the completeness, quality, lineage, and ownership of financial data, from source events through transaction and balance records, reconciliation, accounting, and reporting
  • Contribute to architecture decisions for ledgers, subledgers, financial data models, APIs, and integrations across fiat and crypto activity. Determine what should be standardized and where distinct product flows need governed treatment
  • Partner with Accounting and Treasury to improve account and legal entity attribution, financial controls, reconciliation, exception handling, and the traceability of records across internal and external systems
  • Lead modernization and migration without disrupting close, reporting, fund movements, or other critical Finance operations. Define validation checkpoints and criteria for retiring legacy processes and systems
  • Partner with Product, platform engineering, Risk, Security, Compliance, Tax, and Legal on system boundaries, access controls, resilience, regulatory needs, and auditability

Languages

    Work format
    Remote
    Seniority
    Head
    Posted
    21 Oct 2026
    Last verified
    In the last 5 days

    Similar roles

    Keep looking