Analytics Platforms Architect

1 month ago
Full-time
Lead
Software Development
Tala

Tala

Tala offers a mobile application that integrates digital and cash financial services, enabling users to manage their credit, savings, and overall financial lives seamlessly in one platform.

Banks
251-1K
Founded 2011
$350M raised

Description

  • Define the architecture and technical direction for Tala’s semantic layer and shared analytics platform.
  • Establish governed, consistent business metric definitions across markets and teams.
  • Design and build production data models, pipelines, services, tooling, SDKs, and other platform components.
  • Own platform capabilities from concept through production and eliminate technical debt and architectural bottlenecks.
  • Define governance, context, and standards for safe AI use across analytics and data workflows.
  • Lead cross-functional technical initiatives spanning Product, Engineering, Analytics, Finance, and Accounting.
  • Partner with Finance and Accounting to reconcile business and financial metrics with company reporting.
  • Mentor engineers through design reviews, pairing, and hands-on collaboration while establishing architecture standards.

Requirements

  • Significant experience in data engineering, software engineering, analytics engineering, data platforms, or a 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 bring ambiguous or stalled initiatives to completion.
  • Experience establishing trusted, governed, or standardized business metrics.
  • Experience with AI/LLM-powered analytics, data workflows, or agents is preferred.
  • Experience with financial, regulated, or highly sensitive data is preferred.
  • Excellent communication skills with technical and non-technical stakeholders.

Benefits

  • Remote-first work environment with office hubs in Santa Monica, Nairobi, Mexico City, Manila, and Bangalore.
  • Opportunity to work on financial infrastructure serving customers across Africa, Latin America, and Asia.
  • Potential to build and lead a platform organization as the company grows.
  • Inclusive global team and equal-opportunity workplace.

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