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DFPI Recruiting for Digital Assets Infrastructure Specialist

“The incumbent will be leading the implementation of the new cryptocurrency monitoring technology such as Ethereum Chainalysis,” says the job posting by the Department of Financial Protection and Innovation.

The California Department of Financial Protection and Innovation (DFPI) is recruiting for a digital financial assets infrastructure specialist (IT Specialist III) to serve as the liaison to the department’s Digital Financial Assets Law (DFAL) Program.

The candidate will be working closely with the deputy commissioner for Investor Protection and the DFAL team. In addition to serving as an advanced senior adviser in reviewing crypto assets transaction and activity on the blockchain, the incumbent will be leading the implementation of the new cryptocurrency monitoring technology such as Ethereum Chainalysis.

“The incumbent is expected to stay connected to market trends in popular blockchain analytics software products and tools for future innovative solutions,” the job posting says. “The candidate will further spearhead the infrastructure build-out for crypto kiosks data collection, provide oversight in the establishment of processes related to crypto kiosks that can incorporate several distinct products and cover multiple digital assets, and serve as subject matter expert in the DFAL system development project.”

In addition, “the candidate will be working closely with project manager, application developers, systems engineers, and data scientist on data mining relating to kiosk and digital financial assets data with the goal of providing the DFAL program with timely data analytics and dashboards.”

Desirable qualifications include:
  • Experience leading the implementation of cryptocurrency monitoring technologies.
  • Experience planning, organizing, and managing the buildout of digital financial assets infrastructure conducive to data collection including extract, transform and load.
  • Experience providing oversight in the establishment of technical processes and procedures related to digital financial assets.
  • Experience serving as a subject matter expert in the development of a digital financial assets system.
  • Experience leading strategic and operational planning relating to the technical component of a Digital Financial Assets program.
  • In-depth understanding of the concept involving peer-to-peer payment, programmable money, tokenization of assets, self-custody of funds, and governance by decentralized autonomous organizations.

More information about the position can be found in the duty statement. The role has a monthly salary range of $8,961 to $12,009, and the application deadline is April 29.
Dennis Noone is Executive Editor of Industry Insider. He is a career journalist, having worked at small-town newspapers and major metropolitan dailies including USA Today in Washington, D.C.