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Sr. Compliance Associate Lead - Market Surveillance
OtherRemote — United Kingdom, Ireland, Cyprus, Canada
Published on 2026-10-30
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About this role
Lead complex market-abuse investigations across regulated trading venues and present findings to senior stakeholders. The role also helps strengthen surveillance detection, reporting, and risk coverage as products and markets evolve.
About the company
Kraken is a leading cryptocurrency exchange that provides a platform for buying, selling, and trading a diverse range of digital assets. The company focuses on compliance, security, and innovative financial solutions to serve both individual and institutional clients.
The team
Market Surveillance function within Compliance.
What you'll do
- Lead complex investigations end to end, including referral-based cases, and present conclusions to stakeholders
- Review colleagues’ work and provide escalation guidance on alerts and cases
- Contribute to surveillance threshold and model reviews
- Support surveillance tooling and platform work, including defining and validating detection needs
- Draft suspicious transaction and order reports and suspicious activity reports
- Contribute to market-abuse risk assessments and translate identified risks into surveillance coverage
What we're looking for
- At least 4 years investigating market abuse or trading conduct at a firm subject to market-conduct regulation
- Experience managing investigations end to end, writing regulator-ready findings, and presenting conclusions
- Knowledge of market-abuse typologies and how they differ across asset classes
- Hands-on experience with a surveillance platform such as Scila, Nasdaq SMARTS, Eventus, or NICE Actimize
- Comfort with SQL or a similar query tool
- Exposure to threshold or model calibration, platform integration, or market-abuse risk assessment
- Clear, evidence-first written communication and sound escalation judgment
- Based in the UK, Ireland, Cyprus, or Canada, with fluency in English
Nice to have
- Experience with crypto-asset markets
- Mentoring or senior-review experience
- Experience implementing or building out a surveillance platform
- Electronic communications surveillance experience