Remote Analytics Platforms Architect (AI-Driven Data)

Tala; United States; Remote; USD 180,000 - 280,000; Full time

Job summary

Tala is seeking 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 hands-on role defines the architecture and technical direction for shared data and analytics platforms while building production systems alongside engineers.

You’ll collaborate with Product, Analytics, Engineering, Finance, and Accounting to create a semantic layer with governed business metrics and enable

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.
• Excellent communication skills with technical and non-technical stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Define the technical architecture for the company's semantic layer and shared analytics platform.
• Establish 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, apps, and AI agents.
• Make architectural decisions balancing scalability, reliability, usability, governance, and regulatory requirements.
• Set priorities and sequencing for major platform initiatives and ensure completion.
• Design and build production data models, pipelines, services, tooling, SDKs, and platform components.
• Partner with Analytics Engineering and Data Infrastructure as a senior technical contributor.
• Own platform capabilities from concept through production.
• Eliminate technical debt and bottlenecks that slow data org.
• Establish reusable patterns and standards to simplify data work for engineers and analysts.
• Define how AI can be effectively used in everyday workflows and governance.
• Raise the technical bar through mentorship, reviews, and documentation.

Job description

Tala is seeking 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 hands-on role defines the architecture and technical direction for shared data and analytics platforms while building production systems alongside engineers.

You’ll collaborate with Product, Analytics, Engineering, Finance, and Accounting to create a semantic layer with governed business metrics and enable