Tableau Expert

Photon - Chicago, IL

Full-time

Chicago, IL

Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services

About the position

The Tableau Expert will be responsible for delivering data visualization solutions using Tableau to provide valuable insights to the business. This role involves generating Tableau dashboard reports, creating business intelligence reports and visualizations, and collaborating with data engineers, architects, and business stakeholders. Managing the delivery of Tableau dashboards throughout the software development life cycle (SDLC) is essential.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, conduct unit testing, and maintain complex Tableau reports for scalability, manageability, extensibility, performance, and re-use.
• Provide technical expertise in areas of architecture, design, and implementation of reports.
• Work with the customer to create useful reports and dashboards that provide insight, improve/automate processes, or otherwise add value to the business.
• Gather detailed requirements, produce mockups, and manage delivery through production.
• Work through iterative review cycles to deliver results that meet or exceed user expectations.
• Ensure consistency by adhering to a set of report and data engineering templates.
• Communicate regularly on timelines, ensuring end users are aware of the plan, risks, issues, etc.
• Adhere to governance standards and provide suggestions as needed.

Requirements

• 5+ years experience leading teams delivering value through data and analytics.
• Strong communication (verbal and written) and facilitation skills to effectively deal with various levels of management and staff.
• Experience managing large teams of outsourced suppliers working across multiple projects.
• Ability to maintain a high level of confidentiality and work with highly sensitive data and information.
• Solid understanding of the functionality and features in Tableau. Cognos experience is a plus.
• Strong understanding of programming languages such as SQL, Python and their appropriate application.
• 5 years of proven experience in developing and working Tableau driven dashboards, analytics.
• Ability to query and display large data sets while maximizing the performance of workbook.
• Ability to interpret technical or dashboard structure and translate complex business requirements to technical specifications.
• Working knowledge of Tableau administrator/architecture.
• Advanced Tableau development skills required.
• High-level competency in Excel (macros, pivot tables, etc.).
• Understanding of advanced calculations and statistical functions.
• A solid understanding of SQL, relational database management system, data modeling, and normalization.

Nice-to-haves

• Strong communication skills.
• Attention to detail and accuracy.