Sr. Quantitative Risk Manager - Liquidity

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The team

Kraken is seeking a liquidity & funding stress Quantitative Risk Manager to design build and operate the firm’s factor-based liquidity and capital stress testing framework.

This role will develop the quantitative backbone of Kraken’s Treasury and Capital Markets function — translating on-chain exchange and internal data into actionable stress analytics that inform daily liquidity management capital allocation and funding strategy.

The opportunity

• Design and maintain factor-based liquidity and funding stress models to measure the firm’s resilience under market and operational stress events

• Integrate market and internal data (wallets exchanges counterparties banking flows) into real-time capital and liquidity simulations

• Develop and enhance Treasury’s quantitative model library expanding from first-principles liquidity coverage and funding runoff analyses to advanced jump-diffusion contagion and regime-switching models as risk management matures

• Partner with Treasury Product Engineering to deliver transparent data-driven dashboards and stress visualizations through Kraken’s Capital Management Product

• Perform sensitivity and factor attribution analysis explaining how liquidity counterparty and funding dynamics impact overall growth capacity and balance-sheet deployment

• Document validate and communicate models to senior leadership risk committees and external partners ensuring consistency with governance and audit standards

• Collaborate cross-functionally with Data Product and Finance to define data quality standards and align Treasury risk factors with enterprise metrics

• Additional duties and responsibilities as assigned

Skills you should HODL

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in a quantitative discipline (Finance Financial Engineering Applied Math Physics or related)

• 6–10 years of experience in treasury liquidity risk capital risk modeling or market risk preferably within a trading fintech or digital-asset environment

• Strong Python programming skills (NumPy Pandas SciPy Monte Carlo simulation engines) and working knowledge of SQL

• Demonstrated experience building liquidity or funding stress test frameworks and factor-based capital models

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This job is accepting ongoing applications and there is no application deadline.

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