Tableau Platform Admin

At Lilly, we unite caring with discovery to make life better for people around the world. We are a global healthcare leader headquartered in Indianapolis, Indiana. Our employees around the world work to discover and bring life‑changing medicines to those who need them, improve the understanding and management of disease, and give back to our communities through philanthropy and volunteerism. We give our best effort to our work, and we put people first.

We’re looking for people who are determined to make life better for people around the world.

Come help us deliver cutting‑edge Analytics Platforms with the power of automation, governance, and enterprise‑scale Tableau excellence!

The Tech@Lilly team is actively seeking an experienced Tableau Platform Administrator.

Are you passionate about enabling enterprise analytics, optimizing visualization platforms, and driving automation at scale? Do you enjoy owning mission‑critical BI infrastructure, strengthening governance, and empowering data‑driven decision‑making across a global organization? If so, bring YOUR expertise to Lilly—where your work accelerates scientific discovery, sharpens insights, and improves patient outcomes.

You will serve as the primary administrator for Lilly’s Tableau platform—driving architecture strategy, ensuring 24/7 reliability, and supporting scalable, secure analytics adoption across the enterprise. You will collaborate closely with infrastructure, data engineering, cloud, and security teams to maintain a modern, high‑performance analytics ecosystem. You will also drive platform optimization, automation, and operational excellence across global Tableau environments.

• Lead installation, upgrades, and large‑scale deployments of Tableau Server and Tableau Cloud across Dev, QA, and Production environments.
• Architect and maintain high‑availability, clustered, and failover configurations to support enterprise BI workloads.
• Plan and execute patches, version upgrades, and security updates with minimal business disruption.
• Optimize data extracts, schedules, subscriptions, VizQL performance, and resource utilization.
• Define, implement, and enforce governance for projects, data sources, workbooks, permissions, extracts, and lifecycle management.
• You will perform regular Corrective and Preventive Actions (CAPA) that includes but not limited to certificate renewal, password rotations, security patching, qualify documents and SharePoint articles updates.
• Conduct regular audits and generate insights on platform usage, performance, refresh reliability, and capacity analytics.
• Develop automation scripts and Dev Ops pipelines using Tableau REST API, Power Shell, Python, and monitoring utilities to reduce manual effort.
• Implement automated inventory management, monitoring, and usage tracking across Tableau assets.
• Partner with infrastructure, networking, cloud, database, and security teams to troubleshoot complex issues and improve platform resilience.
• Support integrations across Azure, AWS, Snowflake, Databricks, and hybrid data ecosystems.
• Lead performance tuning, capacity planning, scaling strategy, and optimization initiatives.
• Mentor junior administrators, establish SOPs, and drive standard methodologies for platform operations.
• Act as the enterprise Tableau SME—guiding stakeholders, assessing risk, and communicating platform strategy.

• Deep understanding of Tableau Server/Cloud architecture, including capacity management, HA/DR strategies, and integration patterns.
• Proven ability to optimize extract refresh, VizQL performance, and server resource distribution.
• Expertise using Tableau REST API, Tab Cmd, Power Shell, and automated administrative workflows.
• Advanced SQL skills for troubleshooting, data validation, and performance analysis.
• Experience administering identity and security models, including SSO, SAML, OAuth, Azure AD, or AD.
• Familiarity with cloud ecosystems (Azure, AWS, Snowflake, Databricks) and hybrid analytics deployments.
• Experience with Git‑based workflows and Dev Ops practices.
• Strong communication, problem‑solving, and stakeholder engagement skills.
• Ability to translate business…