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Analytics Platforms Architect

Tala· Technology – Data & Platform
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Remote$160k - $200kFull-timePosted 1mo ago

About the role

Senior technical leader responsible for making Tala's data easier to trust, understand, access, and use across the company. Hands-on, architectural and development role focused on a semantic layer, shared analytics platform, and AI-native analytics.

Responsibilities

  • Own Data Platform Architecture
  • Establish consistent, governed definitions for business metrics across markets and teams
  • Determine how data and metrics should be stored, modeled, accessed, and consumed across BI tools, notebooks, applications, and AI agents
  • Make architectural decisions that balance scalability, reliability, usability, governance, and regulatory requirements
  • Set technical priorities and sequencing for major platform initiatives and ensure they reach completion
  • Build, Don't Just Architect
  • Design and build production data models, pipelines, services, tooling, SDKs, and other platform components
  • Partner closely with Analytics Engineering and Data Infrastructure as a senior technical contributor
  • Take ownership of specific platform capabilities from concept through production
  • Identify and eliminate technical debt and architectural bottlenecks
  • Establish reusable patterns and standards for data usage
  • Build AI-Native Analytics
  • Define how Analytics can effectively use AI in workflows
  • Build the governance layer for AI agents to safely work with trusted metrics and data
  • Establish standards for using AI across analytics and data workflows
  • Advance AI initiatives from prototype to adopted tools and processes
  • Drive Cross-Functional Data Initiatives
  • Lead technical initiatives across Product, Engineering, Analytics, Finance, and Accounting
  • Resolve dependencies, architectural questions, and technical debt to unblock teams
  • Partner with Finance and Accounting to reconcile metrics with books and reporting
  • Build relationships across teams and influence technical decisions
  • Raise the Technical Bar
  • Provide technical mentorship and establish engineering/data architecture standards
  • Improve documentation and data usability
  • Foster governance, reliability, and usability in data products

Qualifications

  • Significant experience in data engineering, software engineering, analytics engineering, data platforms, or related technical field
  • Experience designing and building large-scale or shared data platforms and infrastructure
  • Strong experience with data architecture, data modeling, pipelines, and production systems
  • Track record of making complex architectural decisions and translating them into working systems
  • Ability and willingness to write production code and build alongside engineers
  • Experience leading technical initiatives across multiple teams without direct authority
  • Strong problem-solving skills and ability to drive ambiguous initiatives to completion
  • Experience establishing trusted, governed, or standardized business metrics is highly valuable
  • Experience with AI/LLM-powered analytics, data workflows, or agents is a strong plus
  • Experience working with financial, regulated, or highly sensitive data is a plus
  • Excellent communication skills capable of explaining complex concepts to technical and non-technical stakeholders

Skills

Required:Data platform architectureData modelingProduction data pipelinesGovernance and metrics standardization
Nice to have:AI-enabled analytics

Benefits

  • Not explicitly listed in the description
Last updated Oct 21, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

About Tala

Digital Financial Services, Credit, Savings and More

A money app for the majority. Tala bridges digital and cash ecosystems to help customers seamlessly manage their financial lives, all in one app.

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