Analytics Engineering Manager

The Role 

The Analytics Engineering Manager leads the Analytics Engineering team and is the senior technical leader for the horizontal platform initiatives that make Tala's data usable, trusted, and fast to work with across markets. This person has the authority to set priorities, the technical depth to lead the architecture, and the judgment to know when to build and when to delegate.

This is a hands-on management role: part people manager, part senior architect/builder. The person in this seat manages the Analytics Engineering team, oversees the quality and pace of its work, and acts as lead architect on selected platform initiatives, setting architecture and sequencing for work spanning Analytics Engineering and the data infrastructure they depend on. They are also expected to propose and drive changes that help the team deliver faster and more efficiently. When the work calls for it, they build alongside the engineers delivering it — not as additional throughput, but as the senior technical voice shaping how it gets built. Their time is split between leading the team, architecting selected initiatives, and building, and the balance shifts with what is blocking delivery.