Tableau Developer

Job Description

We are looking for an experienced Tableau Developer with 10+ years of overall experience and strong expertise in Tableau development, data visualization, analytics, and business intelligence. The ideal candidate will be responsible for designing, developing, optimizing, and maintaining enterprise-level Tableau dashboards and reporting solutions while working closely with business stakeholders, data engineers, and technical teams.

The candidate should have strong hands-on experience with Tableau Desktop and Tableau Server/Cloud, excellent SQL skills, and a solid understanding of data warehousing, data modeling, and BI best practices.

Key Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and maintain complex and interactive Tableau dashboards, reports, and visualizations.
• Translate business requirements into scalable and user-friendly Tableau solutions.
• Develop advanced Tableau dashboards using calculated fields, parameters, sets, groups, actions, LOD expressions, table calculations, and advanced visualizations.
• Work with large and complex datasets and develop optimized data sources for reporting and analytics.
• Write and optimize complex SQL queries, stored procedures, and database objects to support Tableau reporting.
• Perform Tableau dashboard and data-source performance tuning and optimization.
• Design appropriate data models, relationships, joins, unions, and extracts to support analytical requirements.
• Manage Tableau Server/Cloud environments, including workbooks, data sources, projects, permissions, refresh schedules, and user access.
• Implement and maintain Tableau data extracts, incremental refreshes, and scheduled data refreshes.
• Troubleshoot issues related to dashboard performance, data quality, connectivity, extracts, and refresh failures.
• Establish and follow Tableau development standards, governance, security, and best practices.
• Collaborate with business analysts, data engineers, data architects, and business stakeholders to understand requirements and deliver BI solutions.
• Participate in solution design, technical discussions, code/design reviews, testing, deployment, and production support.
• Mentor junior Tableau developers and provide technical guidance to the BI development team.
• Identify opportunities to improve existing dashboards, reporting processes, and analytics capabilities.
• Support migration and modernization initiatives such as Tableau Server to Tableau Cloud and legacy BI/reporting platform migrations, when applicable.
• Create technical documentation, dashboard specifications, data-source documentation, and support documentation.

Required Skills

• 10+ years of overall IT/BI experience with strong hands-on Tableau development experience.
• Extensive experience with Tableau Desktop and Tableau Server/Tableau Cloud.
• Strong knowledge of Tableau dashboard development and advanced visualization techniques.
• Expert-level knowledge of SQL and relational databases.
• Strong understanding of data warehousing concepts, dimensional modeling, facts, dimensions, and star/snowflake schemas.
• Hands-on experience with Tableau performance optimization and troubleshooting.
• Strong understanding of Tableau extracts, live connections, data blending, relationships, joins, and unions.
• Experience with Tableau Server/Cloud administration, publishing, permissions, scheduling, and governance.
• Experience working with large datasets and enterprise BI environments.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder-management skills.
• Ability to work independently and lead technical discussions.

Preferred / Nice-to-Have Skills

• Experience with Snowflake, SQL Server, Oracle, PostgreSQL, or other enterprise databases.
• Experience with cloud platforms such as AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud Platform.
• Exposure to ETL/ELT tools and data pipelines.
• Experience with Python or other scripting languages.
• Experience with Tableau APIs, automation, or deployment processes.
• Knowledge of Tableau governance and enterprise BI architecture.
• Experience with Agile/Scrum development methodologies.
• Experience mentoring developers or leading Tableau/BI development initiatives.