Principal Enterprise Tableau Platform & Ai Integration Consultant

Qualifications:

This is not a report developer or visualization designer role. We require platform infrastructure engineers, distributed systems specialists, and API-first architects to drive extreme scalability, harden data security, and lead the integration of Tableau with Enterprise Generative AI and autonomous agents.

Core 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.

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.

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 ope rating clusters supporting >25,000 active users and leading legacy migrations (ThoughtSpot, BusinessObjects, HAWK).

Vendor Technical Pre-Screening Questions

(Candidates must provide written technical responses with resume submission:)

1. AI & MCP: How would you architect an MCP server that lets an AI agent query Tableau data while dynamically passing the user's identity to enforce Row-Level Security (RLS)?

2. Scalability: What caching, pooling, and workbook optimization strategies prevent cluster overload and ensure sub-second response times?

Salary Range: $110,000-$150,000 a year

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