Senior Analytics Platform Architect (Remote)

Cacheflow; Northern (KY); On-site; USD 160,000 - 200,000; 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 is a highly hands-on role where you’ll define architecture and the direction for shared data and analytics platforms while building alongside engineers.

Initially, you’ll be an individual contributor at Principal/Staff level with growth potential to lead a team as the platform expands.

Qualifications

• 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.

Responsibilities

• 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.
• Determine how data and metrics should be stored, modeled, accessed, and consumed across BI tools, notebooks, applications, and AI agents.
• Make architectural decisions balancing 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 with Analytics Engineering and Data Infrastructure as a senior technical contributor.
• Own platform capabilities from concept through production.
• Eliminate technical debt and architectural bottlenecks that slow down the broader data organization.
• Establish reusable patterns and standards for easier data work across teams.
• Build AI-Native Analytics: Define how Tala’s Analytics can use AI in workflows and governance layers.
• Raise the technical bar: mentor through design reviews and hands-on collaboration.

Skills

Data engineering

Analytics engineering

Data platforms

Production code

Problem-solving

Communication

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 is a highly hands-on role where you’ll define architecture and the direction for shared data and analytics platforms while building alongside engineers.

Initially, you’ll be an individual contributor at Principal/Staff level with growth potential to lead a team as the platform expands.