Job Description – Tableau Developer

Position: Tableau Developer

Job Summary

We are looking for a skilled Tableau Developer with strong experience in Tableau, SQL, dashboard development, and requirement gathering. The candidate will be responsible for understanding business requirements, preparing and analyzing data, developing interactive Tableau dashboards, and communicating effectively with business and technical stakeholders.

Key Responsibilities

Gather and analyze business requirements from stakeholders and translate them into effective BI and reporting solutions.
Design, develop, and maintain interactive dashboards and reports using Tableau.
Create dashboards with appropriate charts, filters, parameters, calculated fields, KPIs, and drill-down functionality.
Write and optimize SQL queries to extract, transform, validate, and analyze data from databases.
Work with business users to understand reporting needs and convert requirements into technical specifications.
Perform data validation and reconciliation to ensure dashboard accuracy and data quality.
Develop visually appealing dashboards following Tableau best practices and user experience standards.
Troubleshoot dashboard, data, and performance-related issues.
Optimize Tableau workbooks and SQL queries for better performance.
Publish and maintain Tableau dashboards on Tableau Server/Cloud and manage appropriate access where required.
Collaborate with business analysts, data engineers, developers, and other stakeholders.
Clearly communicate technical concepts, findings, and dashboard insights to both technical and non-technical audiences.
Participate in requirement discussions, reviews, testing, and deployment activities.

Required Skills

Strong hands-on experience with Tableau Desktop and Tableau Server/Cloud.
Strong knowledge of SQL, including joins, subqueries, CTEs, aggregations, and window functions.
Experience in dashboard creation, visualization, and data storytelling using Tableau.
Good understanding of data sources, data modeling, and data validation.
Strong requirement gathering and stakeholder management skills.
Ability to translate business requirements into technical and dashboard specifications.
Good understanding of Tableau calculated fields, parameters, filters, actions, and LOD expressions.
Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
Ability to work independently as well as collaboratively with cross-functional teams.

Preferred Skills

Experience with Tableau performance optimization.
Knowledge of Tableau Server/Cloud administration and publishing.
Experience working with databases such as SQL Server, Oracle, PostgreSQL, or Snowflake.
Knowledge of ETL/data warehouse concepts.
Experience in Agile/Scrum environments.

Key Competencies