BI Platform Engineer
Slack is looking for a BI Platform Engineer to join our Business Technology Data and Analytics Team to help drive scalable data and analytics solutions that create trusted data sets and reporting across our business users. This person will love to be hands-on, love to solve challenges, and assume high accountability through the delivery of strategic BI technology solutions. You will have deep technical skills to complement your analytical experience, and take a systems thinking approach to solving problems across BI platforms. You will collaborate across teams and be passionate about having a huge impact on a growing team.
What You Will Be Doing:
- Manage all Tableau administration-related tasks for users, including (not limited to) extract scheduling, security, platform optimization, data source governance, installation, configuration, and patches.
- Analyze and troubleshoot Tableau Desktop and Server issues from stakeholders across the company and recommend dashboard optimizations for best performance
- Work closely with the Slack on Slack team in evaluating Slack features and building bot functionality to automate metrics directly into Slack.
- Document best practices for Development and administration of the Tableau Platform and provide end-user training.
- Work with business partners to gather analytics and reporting requirements and assist them in developing Tableau visualizations and workbooks.
- Clearly document any change to our Tableau environment, architecture, and automated processes
What You Should Have:
- Experience as Tableau administrator, developing in, configuring and administering Tableau Server + Strong development skills in Tableau and data analytics and visualizations + Knowledge of Tableau Server best practices for scalability, performance, content management
- Knowledge of databases, warehouses, business intelligence tools like OBIEE/Looker, SQL and data analysis tools
- Excellent communication skills; interfacing with both technical and non-technical audiences
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering or related field, or equivalent training, fellowship, and 2+ years of relevant work experience
Bonus Points:
- Advanced knowledge of Tableau Desktop - Able to assist users with complex capabilities guiding them on how to resolve their questions
- and governance
- Tableau Server Admin Certification
- Knowledge of Python
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