What are the responsibilities and job description for the Tableau Server Administrator position at ShiftCode Analytics?
Overview:
We are looking for a Tableau Server Admin who is passionate about applying technology to help people make better decisions with data.
The core function of this role is to ensure the health and uptime of the BI servers and Tableau and other applications that form the basis for all our data integration, data science, and advanced analytic work that we do for the entire family of businesses.
Responsibilities:
- Build, Deploy, Upgrade, and Administer a stable highly available Tableau cluster guaranteed for high operational activities and optimize the operational challenges and tune systems
- Provide top notch support and quality engagement to user's inquiries via conversations as well as through a ticketing system
- Regularly work with Tableau Premium support for new enhancements and product related issue resolution
- Develop and document standards and best practices to support Tableau development and administration
- Licensing key management for our applications
- Manage user security for new and existing Business Intelligence tools in compliance with all audit requirements
- Write and run scripts for maintenance activities, especially for Tableau Server write scripts for Tableau API integration
- Work within the team and customer stakeholders to support the design and development of performance scorecards, workbooks, and dashboard reports
Qualifications:
- 4 years direct experience as Tableau Server administrator
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to concisely convey analytical interpretation and/or data issues to affected members of departments
- Self-directed professional with a hunger to continually learn and grow
- Thorough experience with installation, configuration, upgrade, patches, maintenance, and regression testing of enterprise-level Tableau Server distributed environments
- Hands on experience with Tableau Server version 2020.x/2021.x
- Advanced knowledge and experience with Tableau software (Desktop, Server, Prep), with a strong understanding of Tableau architecture and administration
- Operational expertise in troubleshooting, monitoring, understanding bottlenecks, basics of system architecture, Operating systems, Virtualization platforms, network, storage, and disaster recovery tools
- Experience with automation for tasks like deployment of data sources/workbooks across environment, alerts via scripting
- Expertise in supporting deployment of middleware components
- Experience in implementing SSO and LDAP integration
- Experience in creating monitoring & Audit Reports
Preferred:
- Ability to work on multiple client projects in cross-functional teams, competing priorities, and ensure follow-through on committed deliverables
- Demonstrate credibility, competence, and the ability to manage through influence
- Strong analytical, logic, and problem-solving skills required
- Experience migrating Tableau from on premises to Tableau Cloud
- Experience in previous administration of other BI and data management platforms like Informatica, Scheduler
- Familiarity with Azure Monitoring, Azure Portal, and Cost Management
