--- title: 'Analytics Platforms Architect at Tala' canonical: 'https://feeny.ai/job/analytics-platforms-architect-tala-united-states-73xcrat1k2m1' type: 'job' last_seen: '2026-09-12' --- # Analytics Platforms Architect at Tala - **Company:** Tala - **Location:** United States - **Compensation:** $160k–$200k - **Employment:** full-time - **Work type:** remote - **Posted:** 2026-09-09 - **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-12 - **Apply:** https://jobs.lever.co/tala/848e6f75-9b40-45d2-b5b8-82de6670b0ed ## Job description ## About Tala Tala is AI-native credit infrastructure for the global majority, combining proprietary risk intelligence with an expanding network of capital and distribution partners to power credit access at scale. Backed by more than $500 million in funding, Tala has distributed more than $7 billion in capital to more than 13 million customers across Africa, Latin America, and Asia—building one of the most robust datasets on thin-file borrowers anywhere in the world. Our mission is simple yet bold: to unleash the economic power of the global majority. We are looking for daring, data-driven leaders passionate about building the trust and credit infrastructure for the global majority. Our pioneering work and proven impact have earned us consistent recognition, including being named to: CNBC’s Disruptor 50 for five years. CNBC’s World's Top Fintech Companies for two consecutive years. Forbes’ Fintech 50 list for nine consecutive years. Visionary investors, persuaded by the economic power of the global majority, have committed half a billion dollars in equity and debt to Tala's success. 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! ## 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. What You'll Do: 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 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 that slow down the broader data organization. - Establish reusable patterns and standards that make it easier for engineers and analysts to work with data. Build AI-Native Analytics - Define how Tala's Analytics organization can effectively use AI in everyday workflows, including development, analysis, testing, documentation, and data exploration. - Build the context and governance layer that enables AI agents to safely work with trusted business metrics and data. - Establish standards and best practices for using AI across analytics and data workflows. - Help move AI initiatives from experimentation and prototypes into reliable, adopted tools and processes. Drive Cross-Functional Data Initiatives - Lead technical initiatives that span Product, Engineering, Analytics, Finance, and Accounting. - Bring clarity to ambiguous problems and drive technical decisions to completion. - Unblock engineers and teams by resolving dependencies, architectural questions, and technical debt. - Partner with Finance and Accounting to ensure important financial and business metrics reconcile with the company's books and reporting. - Build strong relationships across teams and influence technical decisions without relying on formal authority. Raise the Technical Bar - Provide technical mentorship through design reviews, pairing, and hands-on collaboration. - Establish engineering and data architecture standards. - Improve documentation and make data easier for teams to understand and use. - Help create a culture where governance, reliability, and usability are built into data products from the beginning. What You'll Need: - 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. - Excellent communication skills and the ability to explain complex technical concepts to both technical and non-technical stakeholders. 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. ## About Tala ## Company Overview - **One-liner**: Tala is a digital financial services company that provides instant credit, payments, savings, and transfer services to thin-file borrowers in emerging markets, using proprietary AI-native risk intelligence. - **Entity Type**: Private (Funding Stage: Late Stage / Series Unknown) - **Headquarters**: Santa Monica, California, United States - **Founded**: 2011 - **Founders**: Shivani Siroya ## Core Business - **Primary Industry**: Financial Services / Fintech - **Target Customers**: B2C (individuals and micro-entrepreneurs in emerging markets, primarily women), B2B (partners and capital providers licensing Tala’s credit infrastructure) - **Mission/Purpose**: To build a more just and equitable future by unlocking global economic progress for the "Global Majority"—the billions of people underserved by traditional financial systems. ## Products & Services - **Tala Money App**: A mobile-first platform offering instant access to credit (loans typically $10–$500), payments, savings, and transfer services. Available in Kenya, the Philippines, Mexico, and India. - **Tala Credit Infrastructure (Platform)**: An AI-native, API-driven underwriting engine built on a decade of behavioral lending data. Tala is opening this infrastructure to partners, platforms, and capital providers to power credit access at scale beyond its own app. ## Market Standing - **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not publicly disclosed (Private company). - **Key Metric**: Total Funding of **$540.6M** raised across 12 rounds. - **Annual Revenue**: **$110M** (latest estimate). - **Notable Investors/Partners**: Upstart, Stellar Development Foundation, RPS Ventures, J. Safra Group, IVP, Revolution Growth, Lowercase Capital, and PayPal Ventures. - **Growth Signals**: - Deployed over **$8 billion** in capital to more than **14 million customers** to date. - Workforce of **465 employees** (+11.1% YoY), with offices in Santa Monica, Nairobi, Manila, Mexico City, and Bangalore. - Named to **Fortune’s Impact 20**, **CNBC’s Disruptor 50** (five consecutive years), and **Forbes’ Fintech 50** (nine consecutive years). - Transitioning from a single-app model to an open infrastructure platform for partners, signaling a major strategic pivot and expansion opportunity. ## Competitive Advantages - **Proprietary AI-Native Underwriting**: Built from the ground up for thin-file borrowers in informal economies, not retrofitted from legacy credit models. This gives Tala a unique, decade-deep behavioral dataset. - **First-Mover & Scale**: A decade of lending data across three continents (Africa, Latin America, Asia) creates a significant data moat that is hard for competitors to replicate. - **Strategic Pivot to Infrastructure**: By opening its credit intelligence to partners and capital providers, Tala moves from a customer-facing app to a shared infrastructure layer, vastly expanding its addressable market and defensibility. ## Strategic Focus - **Platform Expansion**: Converting its proprietary data, models, and customer relationships into shared infrastructure for third-party partners and capital providers. - **Market Penetration**: Deepening reach in existing markets (Kenya, Philippines, Mexico, India) and expanding the product suite beyond credit into payments, savings, and transfers. - **Regulatory & Partnership Growth**: Securing licenses (e.g., licensed digital credit provider by the Central Bank of Kenya) and forming partnerships (e.g., with Mexico’s CONDUSEF, Philippines’ Bayad Center) to build trust and scale. ## Why Work Here - **Mission-Driven**: The company is explicitly focused on financial inclusion for the "Global Majority," offering a strong sense of purpose. - **Remote-First & Flexible**: Tala is remote-first with flexible working hours and unlimited PTO. They offer "Sloth Days" and sabbaticals are a norm. Offices exist for in-person collaboration in Nairobi, Mexico City, Manila, Santa Monica, and Bangalore. - **Invested in Growth**: The company emphasizes continued learning and development, and provides space and support for employees to take their skills to the next level. - **Global Team**: A diverse, global workforce (14 countries) that reflects the diversity of its customers. - **Strong Culture Ratings**: Employer rating of **4.0/5.0** on LinkedIn (222 reviews), with high marks for Work-Life Balance (4.2) and Compensation (4.1). - **Engineering Culture**: Technical staff makes up ~25% of the workforce (118 out of 465). The company is building a cutting-edge AI-native credit infrastructure, offering challenging engineering problems. ## Sources 1. [tala.co](https://tala.co/about/) 2. [tala.co](https://tala.co/careers/) 3. [linkedin.com](https://linkedin.com/company/talamobile) 4. 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