Own complex investigations and shape market abuse detection as a Senior Investigator at Kraken.
Posted by employer 4 days ago
First seen on Joblaze 3 days ago
Last verified on the company career page 11 hours ago
Skills & Technologies
What you'll build
- Own complex investigations end to end
- Lead periodic threshold and model reviews
- Support design and integration of surveillance platform capability
- Contribute to market abuse risk assessments
- Support conflicts of interest and personal account dealing matters
Must have
- Experience investigating market abuse or trading conduct
- Track record running investigations end to end
- Working knowledge of core market abuse typologies
- Experience with threshold and model calibration
- Familiarity with a surveillance platform
Nice to have
- E-comms surveillance experience
AI in the day-to-day
Use AI and automation tools responsibly to speed up evidence-gathering and case reconstruction.
Not disclosed in this posting: compensation, years of experience, work arrangement, visa sponsorship.
Joblaze summary
The Senior Market Surveillance Investigator at Kraken is responsible for managing complex investigations into market abuse, ensuring findings meet regulatory standards and are effectively communicated to stakeholders. This role requires expertise in market conduct regulations, with a focus on surveillance platform integration and risk assessments, alongside familiarity with market abuse typologies. Ideal candidates will have a strong background in regulated trading environments, particularly in investigations, and may come from traditional securities or derivatives markets. The position plays a crucial role in enhancing Kraken's surveillance capabilities as the company expands its product of
Joblaze insights
- Listed 3 days ago — first seen on Joblaze September 19, 2026. Last confirmed on Kraken's careers page September 22, 2026.
- AI appears in 6.1% of 114 comparable senior other roles in United Kingdom; Automation appears in 0.9% of 114 comparable senior other roles in United Kingdom.
Quick facts
- What's the tech stack?
- Joblaze extracted these technologies from the posting: AI, Automation, SQL.
- What seniority level is this role?
- Kraken targets senior candidates for this position.
- Is this full-time or contract?
- Full-time for this Senior Market Surveillance Investigator role at Kraken.
From the original posting
Kraken's Market Surveillance function is responsible for detecting, investigating and reporting market abuse across our regulated trading venues, spanning spot crypto markets, crypto futures, tokenised equities, OTC markets, and consumer trading. As our licensing footprint and product range grow, so does the scale and complexity of the surveillance programme behind them.
We're hiring a Senior Investigator to take on the function's most complex casework, and help shape how we detect and cover market abuse as the business scales.
The opportunity
Own complex investigations end to end, writing findings up to a standard a regulator can rely on, and present conclusions to a range of stakeholders.
Lead or contribute to periodic threshold and model reviews, recalibrating surveillance rules and alert thresholds as trading behaviour, products and market structure evolve.
Support the design, build-out and integration of surveillance platform capability, including onboarding new products, venues and data sources onto the surveillance system.
Contribute to market abuse risk assessments, helping identify and score risk across products, jurisdictions and entities, and translate findings into surveillance coverage.
Use AI and automation tools responsibly to speed up evidence-gathering, case reconstruction and detection-model development, always with human judgement over the final call.
Support conflicts of interest, information barrier, and personal account dealing matters across Markets Compliance, extending beyond surveillance casework where buy-side or asset management experience is directly relevant.
What you bring
Experience investigating market abuse or trading conduct inside a firm subject to market conduct regulation, such as an exchange, broker-dealer, trading venue, or comparable regulated trading business.
A track record running investigations end to end, including writing findings up to a standard a regulator can rely on and presenting conclusions to stakeholders.
Working knowledge of core market abuse typologies e.g. spoofing, wash trading, insider trading, front running, ramping.
Experience with, or strong working knowledge of, threshold and model calibration, surveillance platform integration, market abuse risk assessments, and audit remediation.
Comfort using generative AI and other automation tools to improve the speed and quality of investigative work, while maintaining the human oversight regulated casework requires.
Familiarity with a surveillance platform (such as Scila, Nasdaq SMARTS, Eventus, or NICE Actimize) and comfort with SQL or a similar query tool for evidence-gathering.
Clear, evidence-first written communication - your case files, escalations and regulatory drafts will sometimes be read by auditors and regulators without you in the room to explain them.
Exposure to crypto-asset markets is welcomed but not required. What matters most is regulated-market investigation experience; strong candidates from traditional securities or derivatives markets are encouraged to apply.
Nice to haves
E-comms surveillance experience.
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