Senior Manager, Platform & Infrastructure Audit; AI Model & Platform SME

Who We Are

At OKX, we believe that the future will be reshaped by crypto, and ultimately contribute to every individual's freedom. OKX is a leading crypto exchange and the developer of OKX Wallet, giving millions access to crypto trading and decentralized crypto applications (dApps). OKX is also a trusted brand by hundreds of large institutions seeking access to crypto markets. We are safe and reliable, backed by our Proof of Reserves.

Across our multiple offices globally, we are united by our core principles:
We Before Me, Do the Right Thing, and Get Things Done. These shared values drive our culture, shape our processes, and foster a friendly, rewarding, and diverse environment for every OK-er. OKX is part of OKG, a group that brings the value of Blockchain to users around the world, through our leading products OKX, OKX Wallet, OKLink and more.

OKX is undertaking a significant global team buildout within its Internal Audit function, and we are looking for an experienced and visionary Senior Manager of Data Privacy & Engineering Audit. This is a unique opportunity to lead the assessment and assurance of data privacy and engineering controls within a leading crypto organization, ensuring the highest levels of data protection, integrity, and compliance for our global operations.

You will drive strategic assurance initiatives, and directly impact the secure and compliant handling of sensitive data across innovative crypto products and infrastructure.

We are seeking a seasoned IT audit professional with demonstrable experience in independently assessing data privacy and engineering practices within the crypto exchange or crypto product space. The ideal candidate will possess a deep understanding of data analytics, protection, governance, and quality principles applied to novel technical and control environments, and analytical skills.

• Drive the execution of global audit programs, specifically assessing the design and operating effectiveness of controls over data privacy, data governance, data quality, data security, data modeling, ETL processes, and database management systems.
• Oversee the independent validation of IT incidents related to data privacy and engineering, and provide critical audit support for group-wide IT certifications.
• Collaborate effectively with other functional and regional Internal Audit portfolio leads to provide expert data analytics, privacy, and engineering controls testing and assurance for integrated audits.
• Develop and implement advanced audit methodologies tailored to the unique complexities of managing sensitive data in high-volume, distributed crypto systems, including both on-chain and off-chain data.
• Provide strategic audit insights and independent assurance on emerging data privacy and engineering risks in the cryptocurrency space to senior leadership and the Audit Committee.

• Prior Crypto Exchange/Crypto Product Experience is Essential.
• Strong Critical Thinking and Problem-Solving
  
  Skills:
  
  Capacity to analyze complex, often novel, technical and control environments unique to crypto, identify intricate root causes of issues, and propose effective, context-specific solutions.
• Fundamental Understanding of Blockchain Technology: Basic knowledge of distributed ledger technologies, consensus mechanisms (e.g., PoW, PoS), cryptography (hashing, public-key), and the lifecycle of a cryptocurrency transaction.
• Data Analytics/SQL for Blockchain Data: Advanced ability to perform complex queries, data modeling, and statistical analysis across diverse datasets, including CI/CD pipeline logs, git commit history, dependency manifests, and configuration management logs to identify security vulnerabilities, misconfigurations, and deviations from secure coding standards across the development lifecycle. It also extends to complex data profiling, data quality analysis, identifying sensitive data across both traditional databases and blockchain data, and monitoring data access patterns for security and regulatory compliance in the crypto context.
• Data Governance Auditing: Expertise in independently assessing data governance frameworks that cover both on-chain and off-chain data, ensuring proper classification, ownership, and lifecycle of sensitive crypto-related information.
• Data Quality Auditing: Ability to independently evaluate data quality controls with a focus on transactional integrity, reconciliation, and consistency across disparate systems (e.g., internal ledgers vs. blockchain explorers).
• Data Security and Privacy Auditing: Critical. Deep understanding of global data privacy regulations and their specific application to crypto assets and user data (e.g., pseudonymity, unmasking on-chain data, handling of KYC/AML data), along with the ability to independently audit compliance with these complex requirements.
• Data Modeling and Architecture Auditing: Strong knowledge of data modeling techniques for both traditional databases and blockchain…