Lead complex market surveillance investigations and support compliance efforts in a growing crypto platform.
Posted by employer 1 week ago
First seen on Joblaze 1 week ago
Last verified on the company career page 17 hours ago
Skills & Technologies
What you'll build
- Take complex investigations end to end
- Act as a senior reviewer for colleagues' work
- Contribute to threshold and model reviews
- Support surveillance platform and tooling work
- Draft suspicious transaction and order reports
Must have
- At least 4 years investigating market abuse
- Track record running investigations end to end
- Solid knowledge of core market abuse typologies
- Hands-on experience with a surveillance platform
- Exposure to threshold or model calibration
Nice to have
- Exposure to crypto-asset markets
- Experience mentoring less experienced analysts
- Experience of a surveillance platform implementation
- Electronic communications surveillance experience
Requirements
- Experience
- 4+ years
Not disclosed in this posting: compensation, work arrangement, visa sponsorship.
Joblaze summary
The Senior Compliance Associate Lead for Market Surveillance at Kraken is responsible for managing complex investigations into market abuse, ensuring thorough analysis and reporting to senior stakeholders. This role requires expertise in market conduct regulation, familiarity with surveillance platforms, and the ability to draft detailed reports. Ideal candidates will have at least four years of relevant experience and a strong understanding of market abuse typologies across various asset classes. The position is suited for seasoned professionals looking to take on leadership responsibilities within a growing compliance team.
Joblaze insights
- Listed 11 days ago — first seen on Joblaze October 31, 2026. Last confirmed on Kraken's careers page November 11, 2026.
- SQL appears in 8.3% of 36 comparable lead other roles in United Kingdom.
Quick facts
- How much experience is required?
- At least 4 years of relevant experience for this Sr. Compliance Associate Lead - Market Surveillance role.
- What's the tech stack?
- Joblaze extracted these technologies from the posting: Eventus, NICE Actimize, Nasdaq SMARTS, SQL, Scila.
- What seniority level is this role?
- Kraken targets lead candidates for this position.
- Is this full-time or contract?
- Full-time for this Sr. Compliance Associate Lead - Market Surveillance 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 are hiring a Senior Compliance Associate Lead to take on our more complex casework, own an area of the surveillance programme, and act as a senior point of reference for the analysts around them.
The opportunity
Take the more complex investigations end to end, including those that begin as a referral rather than an alert, and present conclusions to senior compliance stakeholders and the business.
Act as a senior reviewer for colleagues' work, and a point of escalation for judgement calls on how an alert or a case should be treated.
Contribute to threshold and model reviews, recalibrating detection as trading behaviour, products and market structure change.
Support surveillance platform and tooling work, including setting out what detection needs to achieve and validating that it does.
Draft suspicious transaction and order reports and suspicious activity reports.
Contribute to market abuse risk assessment work, and help translate the risks identified into surveillance coverage.
What you bring
At least 4 years investigating market abuse or trading conduct inside a firm subject to market conduct regulation.
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.
Solid knowledge of the core market abuse typologies and how they present differently across asset classes.
Hands-on experience with a surveillance platform such as Scila, Nasdaq SMARTS, Eventus or NICE Actimize, and comfort with SQL or a similar query tool.
Exposure to threshold or model calibration, platform integration, or market abuse risk assessment work.
Clear, evidence-first written communication, and the judgement to know when something needs escalating.
Based in the UK, Ireland, Cyprus, Canada, with fluency in English.
Nice to haves
Exposure to crypto-asset markets is welcomed but not required.
Experience mentoring or acting as a senior reviewer for less experienced analysts.
Experience of a surveillance platform implementation or build-out.
Electronic communications surveillance experience.
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