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About the role
Column runs on infrastructure we built ourselves, with no legacy banking core underneath it — which means when something needs auditing, there's no vendor to point to and no black box to wave at examiners. We're looking for a high-agency audit professional to own that problem, with a focus on Information Technology and Security alongside core banking, BSA/AML, and fintech-specific risk.
What they're looking for
- 5-10 years of audit, risk, or compliance experience in banking, fintech, consulting, or technology
- Real technology audit depth — IT risk, cybersecurity, modern software development, including how AI is changing the dev process
- Hands-on audit ability in a cloud-native environment: AWS IAM, CI/CD, infrastructure as code (Terraform), secrets management
- Comfortable pulling and interpreting data straight from CloudTrail, Datadog, and Okta — via API or query, not just a dashboard
- Working knowledge of BSA/AML, sanctions (KYC, CDD, SAR, OFAC), and core banking regulation (OCC, FRB)
- You build trust fast — with engineers, senior leadership, and regulators
More about this role
For companies building financial technology and transforming the financial services space, the biggest bottleneck to their growth and innovation is often the underlying banks and infrastructure stack they rely on. We have spent our careers founding and scaling companies like Plaid, Square, Meta, Blend, and Affirm, and have seen this problem firsthand — builders and developers needing to partner with traditional banks, and creating API and abstraction layers over the patchwork that is the bank, its core, and many other vendors. All of this results in a complex (and often expensive) banking supply chain involving a user, fintech, BaaS middleware provider, bank, core and the Federal Reserve.
At Column, we set out to simplify and fix this. We are a bank and a software company built from the ground up, offering builders and developers technology-forward banking solutions that cut out the hundreds of vendors, middleware providers, and abstraction layers. This means a safer, more transparent, and less costly banking supply chain. Come build with us!
Column runs on infrastructure we built ourselves, with no legacy banking core underneath it — which means when something needs auditing,...
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