As a Staff Analytics Engineer, you will lead the evolution of Render's Analytics Engineering platform, ensuring data quality and building trusted models for analytics and decision-making.
Analytics Platforms Architect
📜 Description
- Own Data Platform Architecture
- Define the technical architecture for Tala's semantic layer and shared analytics platform.
- Establish consistent, governed definitions for business metrics across markets and teams.
- Make architectural decisions that balance scalability, reliability, usability, governance, and regulatory requirements.
- Design and build production data models, pipelines, services, tooling, SDKs, and other platform components.
🛠️ 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.
- A track record of making complex architectural decisions and translating them into working systems.
- The ability and willingness to write production code and build alongside engineers.
- Experience leading technical initiatives across multiple teams without necessarily having direct authority over those teams.
- Strong problem-solving skills and the ability to bring ambiguous or stalled 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.
Full job description
The company has been named to the Fortune Impact 20 list, CNBC’s World’s Top Fintech Companies twice, CNBC Disruptor 50 for five years, and Forbes’ Fintech 50 list for ten years running.
The Role
We're looking for an Analytics Platforms Architect to be the senior technical leader responsible for making Tala's data easier to trust, understand, access, and use across the company.
This is a highly hands-on technical leadership role. You'll define the architecture and technical direction for shared data and analytics platforms while also building alongside our engineers.
You'll work across Product, Analytics, Engineering, Finance, and Accounting to create infrastructure that becomes the foundation for how Tala uses data. A major focus will be building a semantic layer that gives the organization consistent, governed definitions for important business metrics. You'll also help establish how our analytics teams and AI tools safely work with that data.
This isn't an architecture role where you simply create designs and hand them off to someone else. You'll be expected to make technical decisions, write code, build production systems, and drive important platform initiatives through delivery.
Initially, this role is an individual contributor position with no direct reports, operating at a Principal/Staff-level scope. As our platform organization grows, there will be an opportunity to build and lead a team.
About Tala Tala is the AI-native credit infrastructure that connects global capital to the global majority. We combine proprietary risk intelligence with an expanding network of capital and distribution partners to power credit access at scale. To date, Tala has distributed more than $9 billion in capital to more than 14 million customers across Africa, Latin America, and Asia, building the definitive contextual dataset on thin-file borrowers in emerging markets. Tala is now converting that foundation into shared infrastructure that partners, capital providers, and ecosystems can build on. The company has been named to the Fortune Impact 20 list, CNBC’s World’s Top Fintech Companies twice, CNBC Disruptor 50 for five years, and Forbes’ Fintech 50 list for ten years running. Given the global nature of our team, we operate on a remote-first approach with office hubs in Santa Monica, CA (HQ); Nairobi, Kenya; Mexico City, Mexico; Manila, the Philippines; and Bangalore, India. Most Talazens join us because they connect with our mission. If you are energized by the impact you can make at Tala, we’d love to hear from you! Our vision is to build a new financial ecosystem where everyone can participate on equal footing and access the tools they need to be financially healthy. We strongly believe that inclusion fosters innovation and we’re proud to have a diverse global team that represents a multitude of backgrounds, cultures, and experience. We hire talented people regardless of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, gender expression, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.What You'll Do:
Own Data Platform Architecture
Build, Don't Just Architect
Build AI-Native Analytics
Drive Cross-Functional Data Initiatives
Raise the Technical Bar
What You'll Need:
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