Senior Tableau Administrator​/Architect

Senior Tableau Administrator/Architect

Location:

Plano, TX / Charlotte, NC / Pennington, NJ

Work Schedule:

Hybrid – 3 days onsite and 2 days remote Duration: 12+ month contract, with potential extension

Position Overview

Looking for a senior, hands-on Tableau Administrator/Architect who can own the Tableau platform, keep it stable and scalable, and proactively identify infrastructure, capacity, and performance issues before they impact users.

This is not primarily a Tableau Developer or Analyst position. The ideal candidate should have strong experience with Tableau Server administration, architecture, infrastructure, upgrades, migrations, capacity planning, monitoring, and performance troubleshooting.

Key Responsibilities

• Architect and implement Tableau Cloud SaaS solutions, including hybrid integration with on-premises Tableau Server.
• Design and execute migration strategies from on-premises Tableau environments to Tableau Cloud / Tableau Plus with minimal business disruption.
• Install, configure, administer, and maintain Tableau Server environments.
• Manage the infrastructure and hardware supporting Tableau environments.
• Perform Tableau Server upgrades, migrations, configuration changes, and environment maintenance.
• Lead large-scale Tableau upgrades and migrations in complex enterprise environments.
• Monitor Tableau Server health, traffic, capacity, and overall platform performance.
• Troubleshoot Tableau Server performance issues and identify infrastructure bottlenecks.
• Proactively monitor capacity and performance and identify potential issues before they affect production users.
• Perform capacity planning, performance tuning, stress testing, and infrastructure right-sizing.
• Implement and manage Tableau Bridge for secure and reliable data connectivity.
• Optimize Tableau performance across SaaS environments, including load balancing and VizQL tuning.
• Support Tableau Cloud adoption while maintaining platform governance, security, performance, and compliance requirements.
• Enable AI-assisted and agentic analytics capabilities using Tableau Pulse and Tableau Agents.
• Integrate Tableau with enterprise identity and security platforms including SAML, Active Directory Federation Services, and Single Sign-On.
• Work with Risk, Security, and Governance teams to ensure Tableau environments meet enterprise standards.
• Establish logging, monitoring, and audit controls using tools such as Splunk and Tableau Metadata API.
• Develop and support REST API, Metadata API, and Hyper API integrations.
• Support Tableau embedding strategies and enterprise application integrations.
• Work with Linux operating systems and enterprise infrastructure supporting Tableau environments.
• Use scripting with Python or Power Shell for administration, automation, monitoring, and operational tasks.
• Work with containerized Tableau infrastructure and support modern deployment architectures.
• Lead Proof of Concept initiatives for Tableau Cloud and SaaS adoption and document measurable technical and business outcomes.
• Work closely with infrastructure, networking, security, data, and application teams to resolve complex platform issues.

Required Qualifications

• 7+ years of hands-on experience as a Tableau Server Administrator, Tableau Architect, or similar platform-focused role.
• Strong experience administering and architecting Tableau Server environments.
• Enterprise-level experience with Tableau Cloud and Tableau Plus.
• Strong experience with Tableau Server installation, configuration, upgrades, migrations, and troubleshooting.
• Experience managing the infrastructure, capacity, and performance of large Tableau environments.
• Experience with large-scale Tableau upgrades and migrations in enterprise environments.
• Strong understanding of networking, security, authentication, and data encryption for cloud platforms.
• Experience with Tableau Bridge and hybrid Tableau Server/Tableau Cloud environments.
• Experience with Tableau Pulse and Tableau Agents or similar AI/ML capabilities.
• Experience with Linux operating systems.
• Experience working with Agile tools such as Jira.

Desired Skills

• Experience supporting Tableau in financial services or another highly regulated enterprise environment.
• Familiarity with enterprise AI governance and Einstein Trust Layer.
• Tableau Certified Architect or similar Tableau certification.
• AWS or Azure Cloud Architect certification is a plus.
• Experience with REST API, Metadata API, Hyper API, and Tableau embedding.
• Python scripting.
• Power Shell scripting.
• Capacity planning and stress testing experience.
• Experience running Tableau on containerized infrastructure.

Ideal Candidate

The ideal candidate is a senior Tableau platform professional with strong hands-on experience behind the scenes. They should be comfortable owning Tableau Server infrastructure, handling upgrades and migrations, monitoring platform health, troubleshooting performance issues, managing capacity, and keeping the environment stable and scalable.

Candidates whose experience is primarily focused on Tableau dashboards, reporting,…