Tableau and Power BI Platform Administrator

Evolver Commercial; San Francisco (CA); Hybrid; USD 140,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

Evolver Commercial in the San Francisco Bay Area seeks a Tableau and Power BI Platform Administrator to own enterprise BI platforms, govern data, secure environments, and support multiple BI tools.

The role covers Tableau Server administration, upgrades, performance tuning, SSO integration with Entra ID, Power BI tenancy, gateways, deployment pipelines, and CI/CD workflows. It requires governance, security discipline, and collaboration with report developers, data engineering, and IT security.

Qualifications

• 10 years of experience supporting enterprise BI platforms with hands-on Tableau Server administration.
• 7+ years managing Tableau data-source connectivity, extracts, and governance.
• Experience with Tableau REST APIs, tabcmd, and scripting for automation.
• Bachelor's degree in a related field.
• Strong knowledge of identity and access management, SSO, and security best practices.

Responsibilities

• Administer Tableau Server including sites, projects, permissions, data sources, and extracts.
• Define governance standards for content ownership, publishing, and retention.
• Manage SSO integration and Entra ID groups; perform regular access reviews.
• Plan Tableau upgrades, patches, and lifecycle activities with testing and rollback.
• Support Power BI tenant administration, workspaces, gateways, and deployment pipelines.
• Coordinate incident, change, and deployment activities with cross-functional teams.

Skills

Tableau Server administration

Power BI administration

SSO / Entra ID integration

GitHub / Azure DevOps

CI/CD pipelines

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Data Analytics, Engineering, or related field

Tools

Tableau Server

Tableau Bridge

tabcmd

PowerShell

Tableau REST APIs

Power BI

Entra ID

Azure DevOps

Job description

The Tableau and Power BI Platform Administrator is primarily responsible for administering, governing, securing, and supporting the enterprise Tableau platform, while also providing administration and operational support for Microsoft Power BI and other assigned enterprise applications. This role provides hands‑on ownership of Tableau Server, including sites, projects, permissions, data sources, extracts, schedules, subscriptions, platform monitoring, upgrades, performance optimization, and lifecycle management. The role also supports Power BI tenant administration, workspaces, gateways, capacities, and deployment controls to ensure enterprise reporting services remain reliable, secure, compliant, and supportable.

This is NOT a remote position. This position is required to be in the office Monday through Thursday every week, in either our San Francisco, CA or San Ramon, CA office. Friday work may be mostly work from home, as long as the situation allows.

Responsibilities

• Administer and support Tableau Server as the primary platform responsibility, including sites, projects, groups, permissions, data sources, extracts, schedules, subscriptions, alerts, and platform settings.
• Define and enforce Tableau governance standards for site and project creation, naming conventions, environment separation, content ownership, publishing, certification, promotion, retention, archival, and decommissioning.
• Manage Tableau role‑based access, SSO and Microsoft Entra ID group integration, site roles, service accounts, licensing, permissions, and periodic access reviews using least‑privilege principles.
• Configure and maintain Tableau Server administration components, including Tableau Bridge, background processes, extract services, repository monitoring, administrative views, and connectivity settings.
• Monitor Tableau platform health, server resources, background jobs, extract refreshes, subscriptions, usage, failures, and performance trends; proactively address capacity, stability, and reliability risks.
• Plan and execute Tableau upgrades, patches, maintenance releases, topology or capacity changes, Bridge updates, and lifecycle activities with testing, rollback, communication, and support readiness.
• Support controlled Tableau workbook, data source, and dashboard promotion across development, test, and production environments using approved release, change‑management, and CI/CD practices.
• Troubleshoot Tableau authentication, permissions, data‑source connectivity, extract processing, workbook performance, subscriptions, and platform incidents in partnership with report developers, data engineering, infrastructure, cybersecurity, and identity teams.
• Use Tableau REST APIs, Tableau Server Client, tabcmd, PowerShell, or equivalent automation tools to streamline site, project, user, group, permission, inventory, deployment, and monitoring activities.
• Maintain Tableau platform inventories, ownership records, architecture diagrams, administrative standards, operational procedures, support runbooks, disaster‑recovery procedures, and audit evidence.
• Provide Tableau onboarding guidance, reusable standards, templates, and enablement for developers, publishers, project leaders, content owners, and support teams.
• Drive Tableau platform optimization by identifying stale projects, unused workbooks and data sources, duplicate content, inefficient extracts, performance bottlenecks, and opportunities to standardize or automate administration.
• Provide administration and operational support for Microsoft Power BI, including tenant settings, workspaces, gateways, capacities, deployment pipelines, access controls, refresh operations, monitoring, and audit capabilities.
• Provide limited administration and operational support for other enterprise applications, as assigned, including access management, monitoring, incident resolution, change coordination, documentation, and vendor support.
• Ensure platform administration complies with enterprise security, privacy, records‑management, and regulatory requirements through logging, monitoring, least‑privilege access, data protection controls, and auditable processes.
• Coordinate incident, problem, change, release, and vendor support processes, with primary ownership of Tableau operational issues and supporting responsibility for Power BI and other assigned applications.

Basic Qualifications

• 10 years of experience supporting enterprise business intelligence, analytics, reporting, or data platforms, including significant hands‑on Tableau Server administration experience.
• 10 years of experience administering Tableau Server, including sites, projects, users, groups, permissions, schedules, extracts, subscriptions, monitoring, upgrades, and operational support.
• 7 years of experience with Tableau platform architecture, topology, background processes, high availability, disaster recovery, performance tuning, capacity planning, and repository or administrative monitoring.
• 7 years of experience managing Tableau data‑source connectivity, extract refreshes, Tableau Bridge, certificates, proxies, SSO, authentication, and network dependencies across cloud and on‑premises environments.
• 7 years of experience implementing governed development, test, and production environments and controlled promotion processes for Tableau workbooks, dashboards, and published data sources.
• 7 years of experience with Tableau REST APIs, Tableau Server Client, tabcmd, PowerShell, or equivalent scripting and automation tools for platform administration and lifecycle management.
• 7 years of experience with DevOps and change‑management practices, including GitHub or Azure DevOps, CI/CD pipelines, release controls, testing, documentation, and production support.
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Data Analytics, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent professional experience.

Preferred Qualifications

• Tableau Certified Architect, Tableau Certified Consultant, Tableau Server Certified Associate, or comparable Tableau administration certification.
• Experience administering Tableau in a regulated enterprise environment with formal change, incident, risk, access‑review, and audit processes.
• Experience with Tableau administrative views, Tableau repository data, enterprise monitoring tools, log analysis, and platform performance diagnostics.
• Experience automating Tableau site, project, user, group, permission, inventory, deployment, and monitoring activities through APIs or scripting.
• Strong understanding of identity and access management, Microsoft Entra ID, SSO, security groups, role‑based access, service accounts, licensing, and least‑privilege administration.
• Working knowledge of Microsoft Power BI administration, including tenant settings, workspaces, capacities, gateways, deployment pipelines, refresh operations, permissions, and monitoring.
• Working knowledge of Azure, Microsoft Fabric, SQL Server, Snowflake, enterprise data warehouses, networking, certificates, proxies, and cloud or on‑premises connectivity patterns.
• Strong understanding of enterprise governance, security, privacy, compliance, auditability, data classification, records retention, and operational controls for reporting platforms.
• Ability to translate business and technical requirements into scalable, reliable, governed, and supportable platform configurations and operating standards.
• Experience supporting SSRS, Microsoft Fabric, Power BI Report Server, or other enterprise applications and reporting technologies is a plus.
• Strong communication, troubleshooting, documentation, vendor‑management, and stakeholder‑coordination skills.

Evolver is an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, race, color, religion, national origin, disability, protected Veteran status, age, or any other characteristic protected by law.

Actual salary will depend on factors such as skills, qualifications, experience, market and work location. Evolver offers benefits, including health, dental and vision insurance, 401(k), flexible spending account, and paid leave (including PTO and parental leave) in accordance with our applicable plans and policies. The annual salary for this position in the San Francisco Bay Area is $140,000 - $160,000 USD.