Tableau Developer (Senior)

Location: Springfield, VA

Clearance Required: Active TS/SCI or above.  Candidates must be willing to take a Polygraph.

Required Qualifications:  12 years of experience w/Degree (4 additional years of experience can be substituted for degree) 8 of the 12 years with specialized experience.

  • Required: TS/SCI or above clearance
    • 5+ years of experience designing and developing business intelligence dashboards using Tableau.
    • Tableau Desktop Certified Profession with at least 5 years of experience using Tableau Desktop.
    • 5+ years in UI, UX space (can be concurrent or overlap with Tableau experience) demonstrable with evidence of using a combination of user interface tools such as wire frames, prototypes, mock-ups, or white boarding to illustrate product usability.
    • Experience working with large and complex data set able to write simple queries to create calculated fields.
    • Empirical understanding of data systems (BI analytics, data blending, data warehousing, data ETL, etc.) on process automation and standardization.
    • Experience working on a support team environment by documenting, researching, solving problems.
    • Experience working directly with business analysts or business sponsors to gather and validate functional requirements and provide the design specifications.
    • Excellent oral, written skills and listening skills.
    • Ability to work on multiple projects and flexibility to change priorities when needed.

Job Description: The Tableau Developer will manage the lifecycle of Tableau analytics dashboards, including business requirements gathering, functional specification write-up, prototyping, development, quality testing, user acceptance testing, roll-out and post-launch enhancements implementation to support CUSTOMER resource owner information needs. They will design engaging and interactive business insights dashboards using Tableau and apply data visualization best practices, with a focus on enhancing user interaction and user experience.

Duties and Responsibilities:

  • Serve as Tableau developer and Subject Matter Expert (SME) as well as work closely across financial management directorate to ensure data sources are accurate, available and analyzable.
  • Perform a broad array of functions with Tableau Desktop (dashboard creation, report authoring and troubleshooting, data source management).
  • Create and edit SQL queries within Tableau to build calculated fields.
  • Create interactive filters, parameters and calculations for dashboards and worksheets in Tableau.
  • Build and publish interactive dashboards on Tableau Server. Collaborate with data stewards to test, clean, and standardized data to meet the business requirements.
  • Conduct strategizing and ideation sessions with the team before beginning on creating the application or solution.
  • Create tools to store data effectively within the organization, as well as maintaining data analytics platforms so that data can effectively be mined for information at a later date.
  • Conduct tests and develop database queries to analyze the effects and troubleshoot any issues that arise. This is an ongoing part of the development process that occurs regularly throughout a project to pick up on any part of the application that isn’t working correctly.
  • Develop and update technical documentation to serve as a reference guide.
  • Work cross-functionally with various departments including business stakeholders and technical personnel to exchange ideas.

Please send your resume to careers@rti-llc.com

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