Position
Senior / Principal Enterprise Tableau Platform & AI Integration Consultant
Location
Sunnyvale, CA (Onsite)
Job Description
1. Engagement Overview
We operate an enterprise BI ecosystem supporting 50% client people
2. Core FY27 Deliverables
- Tableau Studio: Enterprise-wide rollout, lifecycle governance, self-serve onboarding, and creator community adoption.
- Tableau Data Apps: Architecture and deployment of interactive, web-based analytics applications using modern embedding frameworks (Embedding API v3, VizQL Data Service).
- Endor + Tableau (EA): Deep integration with Enterprise Assistant (EA) and autonomous BI agents; providing certified semantic grounding to eliminate LLM hallucinations while preserving dynamic user entitlements.
- MCP Server Enablement: Production Model Context Protocol (MCP) pipelines exposing Tableau schemas, metadata, and query engines to developer and analyst AI workflows.
3. Required Technical Competencies
- Cluster Scalability & Distributed Engines:
- Multi-node cluster architecture and tuning under heavy peak concurrency.
- Native integration and query performance optimization with modern engines: Trino, StarRocks, and Snowflake.
- Workload optimization: Hyper extract caching, backgrounder scheduling, and query bottleneck analysis.
- Security, Entitlements & Compliance:
- Dynamic Row-Level (RLS) and Column-Level Security (CLS) integrated with LDAP/AD.
- Headless and API security: OAuth, SAML, Personal Access Tokens, and Connected Apps (JWT).
- Cross-border data sovereignty and regulatory isolation (China PIPL).
- APIs & Developer Platform:
- Expert-level REST API, Metadata API (GraphQL), and Embedding API v3.
- VizQL Data Service / Headless Tableau for programmatic data extraction.
- Robust automation scripting in Python or TypeScript/Node.js.
- GenAI, Autonomous Agents & MCP:
- Practical development and deployment of Model Context Protocol (MCP) servers.
- Structuring BI semantic models as machine-readable context for LLMs.
- Enforcing end-user identity and entitlement propagation through AI tool calls.
4. Candidate Qualifications
- Experience: 8–12+ years in Enterprise Data Engineering / Systems Architecture, with 5+ years dedicated to enterprise Tableau platform infrastructure and APIs.
- Background: Proven track record in Big Tech, hyperscale SaaS, or Tableau Professional Services.
- Scale: Verifiable experience operating clusters supporting >25,000 active users and leading legacy migrations (ThoughtSpot, BusinessObjects, HAWK).