# Senior Technical Program Manager, Data & Audit Readiness

**Company:** [Kraken](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/kraken)
**Location:** Remote
**Role:** Technical Program Management
**Salary:** $96k – $192k/yr
**Experience:** 7+ years
**Skills:** Program Management, Project Management, audit coordination, Data Governance, soc, sox, it general controls, data cataloging, data access management, auditboard, Jira, workiva, control automation, pmp, capm
**Posted:** 2026-08-05

> Owns continuous audit readiness for the Data team by coordinating audit engagements, maintaining inventories and playbooks, governing audit-scoped datasets, and managing auditor access. The role requires 7+ years of program, audit coordination, or data governance experience and familiarity with SOC/SOX controls.

## Job Description

## Responsibilities
- Act as the program management layer for the Data team during audits, interfacing with Internal Audit coordination teams, Risk, Security, Finance, Compliance, and external auditors.
- Own audit readiness as a continuous practice by maintaining inventories, playbooks, and catalogs between audits.
- Create and manage an inventory of audit tests, expected requests, and response playbooks for Data team-owned systems and processes.
- Maintain a catalog of audit-scoped data sources, including known issues, readiness status, and areas for improvement.
- Support ongoing testing, including mock testing and identifying areas requiring reengineering.
- Coordinate with Finance, Security, and Compliance stakeholders during audit activities.
- Implement tagging and governance processes with Data Governance to identify endorsed datasets and tables considered audit ready.
- Manage the auditor data access role and ensure access is fit for purpose.

## Requirements
- 7+ years of experience in program or project management, audit coordination, or data governance, ideally in a regulated or heavily audited financial-services environment.
- Experience with SOC, SOX, IT general controls, or other regulatory audit frameworks.
- Experience coordinating audit engagements or liaising between technical teams and Internal Audit, Risk, Compliance, or external auditors.
- Strong organizational skills and experience building and maintaining inventories, playbooks, or documentation for recurring cross-functional processes.
- Familiarity with data cataloging, tagging, and governance practices that support audit readiness and control certification.
- Understanding of data access management principles and the ability to evaluate whether access is fit for purpose.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to produce documentation for technical stakeholders and auditors.

## Nice to Haves
- Familiarity with audit management platforms such as AuditBoard, Jira, or Workiva.
- Knowledge of automated control design and control automation.
- Experience building or scaling a SOC, SOX, or control system in a hyper-growth or first-year SOX company.
- PMP, CAPM, or similar program/project management certification.

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