Job Summary
Key Deliverables and Responsibilities
The Senior Tableau Engineer designs, develops, and maintains high-quality business intelligence solutions that enable data-driven decisions across Cambridge. This hands-on role partners with analytics, data engineering, and business stakeholders to turn trusted data into intuitive, performant, and actionable dashboards and reports. The position focuses on the presentation, usability, and consumption layer of the data platform, helping ensure insights are accessible, reliable, secure, and aligned with business needs.
What You’ll Do:
Dashboard Development: Design, develop, and maintain Tableau dashboards, workbooks, and visual analytics solutions for operational, tactical, and strategic decision-making.
Metric Consistency: Develop and maintain semantic layers, calculated fields, parameters, filters, and certified data sources that promote reuse and consistent definitions.
Performance Optimization: Improve dashboard speed and scalability through efficient data modeling, query design, extract strategies, caching, and live-connection best practices.
Visualization and UX: Apply layout, accessibility, storytelling, and user-experience standards to create intuitive, consistent, and visually compelling analytics.
Platform Support: Support Tableau Server or Tableau Cloud publishing, permissions, content organization, user support, enhancements, and production troubleshooting.
Governance and Security: Implement data governance, access controls, row-level security, lineage, and data-quality practices across BI solutions.
Documentation: Document dashboards, data sources, business logic, calculations, and usage guidance for end users.
Collaboration: Work across analytics, product, business, and technology teams to influence delivery standards and reporting operating models.
What We Are Looking For