AI Agents Solutions Architect - Finance

About Krakenites and Our Mission

At Kraken, we are a world-class team of crypto convictionaries united by our desire to discover and unlock the potential of crypto and blockchain technology. Our mission is to accelerate the global adoption of crypto, empowering everyone to achieve financial freedom and inclusion. For over a decade, Kraken's commitment to its mission and crypto ethos has attracted top talent globally. We encourage candidates to explore our Kraken Culture page and familiarize themselves with the Kraken app.

Our Global and Remote Culture

As a fully remote company, Krakenites are spread across 70+ countries, speaking over 50 languages. We are industry pioneers, developing premium crypto products for traders, institutions, and newcomers. Kraken is dedicated to industry-leading security, crypto education, and world-class client support through products like Kraken Pro, Desktop, Wallet, and Kraken Futures. Join us to build the future of crypto!

The Global Finance Team

Kraken's Global Finance team serves as the operational backbone of one of the world's most trusted crypto exchanges. The team encompasses accounting, FP&A, treasury, tax, and finance operations across multiple regulated entities and 70+ countries. We manage the financial infrastructure critical for daily close, regulatory reporting, and crypto-native asset reconciliation. As our global footprint expands, this role is crucial for architecting and hands-on building to scale our finance operations, addressing manual efforts tied to critical financial and regulatory obligations where errors carry significant consequences.

The Opportunity: Architecting the AI-Native Finance Operating System

This role is at the forefront of building Kraken's AI-native finance operating system. You will operate on two fronts: deploying production automation immediately and redesigning the finance architecture for the long term. Your responsibilities will cover five key areas:

1. Assess and Map Finance Operations

• Evaluate current financial workflows, including close, reconciliations, treasury, reporting, controls validation, and audit preparation.
• Identify capability gaps, manual bottlenecks, and integration failures within systems like NetSuite, BlackLine, Kyriba, Fireblocks, and Lukka.
• Benchmark operations against best-in-class practices and emerging AI capabilities to develop a prioritized Finance automation roadmap.
• Collaborate with accounting, FP&A, treasury, and finance operations teams to translate process pain points into actionable automation requirements.

2. Architect the Agentic Finance Platform

• Design the long-term architecture for an AI-native finance operating system, defining agentic system interactions with financial infrastructure, data pipelines, and control frameworks.
• Evaluate Kraken's existing finance systems stack from first principles, identifying opportunities for simplification and defining a scalable target architecture.
• Build an agentic finance layer that automates current workflows while paving the way for a more scalable, AI-native architecture.

3. Build and Deploy Production Finance Automation

• Deploy production-grade agentic workflows for reconciliations, close processes, audit and reporting preparation, treasury monitoring, financial analytics, and controls validation.
• Utilize modern AI tooling including Claude and Anthropic APIs, Python-based orchestration, n8n or equivalent workflow engines, and MCP or similar agent coordination layers.
• Integrate internal and external systems through APIs and data sources, creating unified automated workflows that deliver significant operational leverage.
• Ensure designs maintain auditability and control integrity, not just efficiency, with human oversight where appropriate.

4. Own AI Governance for Finance

• Establish guardrails for safe automation and agent behavior within a SOX-regulated financial environment, defining control preservation and redesign strategies.
• Develop frameworks for data classification, auditability, human-in-the-loop checkpoints, failure detection, rollback mechanisms, and regulatory compliance.
• Classify automation builds by risk tier and ensure all production builds have a named Process Owner, documented data flows, access controls, and audit logging.
• Represent Finance in Kraken's Automate Everything Center of Excellence, contributing to governance standards and cross-functional alignment.

5. Build the Foundation for AI-Native Finance

• Create reusable frameworks, workflow templates, and documentation to enable future Finance team members to build safely on the platform.
• Train finance professionals on AI-assisted tools and workflows, driving adoption and operational independence.
• Develop metrics, dashboards, and performance frameworks to measure efficiency gains, cost reduction, risk outcomes, and ROI from automation initiatives.
• Provide leadership reporting on operational improvements, risk posture, and the finance platform roadmap.

Skills You Should HODL

• Proven track record designing, deploying, and scaling agentic AI systems in production environments.
• Deep understanding of LLM orchestration, multi-agent system design, and AI workflow failure modes in high-stakes operations.
• Strong systems architecture capability from discovery to optimization, without external consultants.
• Hands-on proficiency with modern AI automation tooling: Claude/Anthropic APIs, Python-based orchestration, n8n or equivalent workflow engines, MCP or similar agent coordination layers.
• Strong domain knowledge of finance operations (close, reconciliations, treasury, reporting, controls in regulated environments).
• Experience deploying automation in SOX-regulated environments, understanding control preservation and audit integrity.
• Ability to translate finance and business requirements into technical roadmaps and scalable operational solutions.
• Strong communication skills to bridge finance, technical, and business teams, influencing senior stakeholders.
• Comfortable operating in fast-paced, ambiguous environments with a high degree of ownership and bias toward execution.

Nice to Have

• Experience with finance systems (NetSuite, BlackLine, Kyriba, Fireblocks, Lukka).
• Background as Head of Product/Engineering at an AI-native company, AI systems architect, or founder/early engineer at an agentic infrastructure company.
• Familiarity with crypto-native financial infrastructure (digital asset custody, on-chain reconciliation, blockchain accounting).
• Experience in high-velocity or resource-constrained environments (startup, PE-backed, understaffed finance teams).
• Familiarity with data privacy, information governance, or compliance systems in financial services.
• Experience managing vendor relationships and procurement for finance technology platforms.

Application Information

Applications are accepted on an ongoing basis unless a specific deadline is stated. Applicants may redact personal identifying information such as age or graduation dates from resumes. Qualified applicants with criminal histories will be considered in accordance with the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance. Kraken values diversity and hires strictly based on merit, encouraging applications even if not all requirements are fully met, especially for those passionate about crypto. Job-related skills or work-style assessments may be part of the hiring process and will be considered alongside other relevant information.

Equal Opportunity Employer

Kraken is an equal opportunity employer and does not tolerate discrimination or harassment of any kind. We celebrate the diverse talents, backgrounds, and perspectives of our global team and hire based on abilities, knowledge, and skills.

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Key skills/competency

• AI Agents
• Finance Operations
• System Architecture
• LLM Orchestration
• Production Automation
• SOX Compliance
• Python
• API Integration
• Workflow Engines
• Finance Systems