Data Ops Engineer - Tableau Admin

Job Description:

The Analytics Architecture team is an established team of data practitioners supporting decision makers across the entire company. We use our data platform to improve outcomes for our colleagues, our leadership, our customers, and everyone in the Pluralsight community. In addition, we are a team that values and encourages diverse ideas, backgrounds, and strengths.

In this role, you will need to use your knowledge of data engineering, database performance, data migration strategies, scripting, and data architecture to function collaboratively within a team environment. We are looking for someone who will apply software engineering standard methodologies to analytics code via the utilization of version control, testing and validation processes, and continuous integration.
 

Who you’re committed to being:

• Dedicated to administering a Tableau platform and ensuring the environment is performant, secure, and monitored.

• Passionate about data, analytics, data modeling and automation with experience cleaning and modeling large quantities of raw, disorganized data

• Appreciate being on a team that values and encourages diverse ideas, backgrounds, and strengths

• Carefully consider the ethical and security implications of choices you make when using data, as well as the impact of your work on customers and colleagues

• Respect and invite fair feedback while promoting the identification and open discussion of errors, risks, and unintended consequences

• Deeply understand existing and new technology trends, and you work with partners to review and recommend innovative and efficient solutions
   

What you’ll do:

• Performance analysis of existing Tableau Servers and provide best practice recommendations.

• Improving processes and operations throughout the data environment via automation

• Creating and maintaining documentation on processes, policies, application configuration and help-related materials as applications are developed

• Improving observability in our analytics environment, including uptime, usage, data quality, disaster recovery, and data freshness

• Building and maintaining production data pipelines for analytics across the business

• Developing tooling and solutions for data practitioners using a deep understanding of their objectives and problems

• Creating, implementing, and improving standards for production-worthy data flows
   

Experience you’ll bring:

• 3+ years overall of taking a multidisciplinary approach to data development: we emphasize picking the right tool for the job

• 3+ years of experience in a Tableau Administration role, preferably non-cloud with any post 2018 tsm version.

• 3+ years of scripting experience for the purpose of automation. PowerShell would be preferred.

• 1+ year of experience with data warehousing architecture and data modeling standard methodologies

• 1+ year of experience with cloud data technologies (Snowflake & AWS preferred)

• 1+ year of experience developing, operating and maintaining data pipelines utilizing dbt

• 1+ year of experience building CI\CD pipelines that automate IaC and artifact deployment using tools such as Terraform and Github Actions

• Effective communication skills with technical team members as well as business partners

• Ability to tackle problems independently and prioritize work based on the anticipated business value.
   

Requirements:

• 3 or more years of experience with Tableau Administration, ideally outside of the cloud, using any version of TSM after 2018.

• 3 or more years of experience writing scripts for automation. It would be better to use PowerShell.

• 1 or more years of expertise with cloud data technologies, preferably with AWS and Snowflake.
   

Travel Requirements:
 

While Pluralsight operates under a remote and hybrid work model, we believe that in-person connection and collaboration are important. Recurring travel to our HQ in Utah may be required depending on the role and team member location.
 

Why you’ll love working here:

• We’re hybrid-friendly

• We’re mission driven and guided by our culture pillars

• We have a strong commitment to diversity and belonging

• We cultivate a culture of trust, autonomy, and collaboration

• We’re lifelong learners and champion team member growth and advancement

• We’ve got you covered - team member benefits include competitive compensation packages, medical coverage, unlimited PTO and Summer Fridays, wellness reimbursements, Pluralsight subscription, professional development funds and more.
   

About us:
 

We’re Pluralsight, the technology workforce development company that helps teams build better by knowing more and working better together. Using our Skills, Flow, and Cloud products, teams can develop critical skills, improve processes and gain data-driven insights.

Learning and development are at the core of who we are. We’re out to help every technologist build better, and we’re looking for curious, talented people to help us inspire and empower the tech workforce to achieve their goals. Our culture of autonomy, continuous learning, and collaboration creates an environment for growth and empowers us to drive impact through innovation.
 

Physical and Mental Requirements:
 

Work is performed in an office (or home office) environment and requires the ability to operate office equipment and keyboards. Sedentary work. Repetitive work. Ability to perform tasks related to documentation, data analysis, transcription and extensive content analysis. Learn new tasks, remember processes, complete tasks independently, and make timely decisions in the context of a workflow.
 

EEOC Statement:
 

Bring yourself. Pluralsight is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability, age or protected veteran status. Pluralsight will also consider for employment qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with EEOC guidelines and applicable local law.

We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment. Please visit the bottom of our website to learn how to request an accommodation.

For more information on Pluralsight’s commitment to building a more diverse and inclusive workforce, please review our most recent Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Belonging report here.
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