Senior Technical Support Engineer

Job Description

Tableau helps people see and understand data. Our analytics platform fuels exploration, allowing you to quickly answer questions with data and share insights across your organization. Global enterprises, early-stage startups, nonprofits, and governments all use Tableau s intuitive software to quickly transform their data into actionable insights. We are passionate about our product and our mission and we are loyal to each other and our company. We value work/life balance, efficiency, simplicity, freakishly friendly customer service, and making a difference in the world!What you ll be doing The Technical Support Engineer is responsible for the collection, analysis, reporting, and development of technical reports that illustrate Tableau Servers health-related data to enhance the understanding of its health, capacity, performance, data usage and planning.This role requires deep quantitative skills to answer technical and strategic insights to help the Technical Account Managers drive pro-active actions for the Customers Tableau Deployment to address performance, Stability and Growth/Capacity planning requirements.The Technical Support Engineer will develop standardized tools, methodologies, and create product readiness updates aimed at improving technical reporting capabilities of the Tableau Server and creating regular product insights for the Global Technical Account Management group.We operate 24x7 which can involve working during one of the below shifts (not limited to - shift timing can change).AMER hours (Eastern Standard Time - 5.30 PM/ 6.30 PM IST or Pacific Standard Time - 9 PM/ 10 PM IST onwards depending on Day Light Savings Time)EMEA hours - 12:00 PM/ 1 PM / 2 PM IST onwards depending on Day Light Savings TimeAPAC hours - 5.30 AM IST onwardsWork hours can change depending on Business requirements.Responsibilities:

• Create, Build and Refine current reporting packages to empower Technical Account Managers with critical Tableau Servers deployment operational data related to support strategy and execution.
• Develop and maintain standardized deployment review reports and dashboards to report/monitor overall Tableau Server health, and key objectives/performance indicators.
• Enable Technical Account Manager to utilize the information to address a wide range of problem solving situations, strategic to real-time, requiring extensive use of data collection and analysis.
• Support ongoing analysis of Tableau Server s utilization, health and performance.
• Collect, analyze, evaluate, and report data to track Tableau Server s usage, health, and performance metrics from customers.
• Work closely with Technical Account Management, Customer Solutions Programs, Supportability and Operations counterparts to ensure data validity, tools needs, and technical strategy is aligned.
• Also work closely with Supportability, Product to create videos and documentation on the latest product enhancements, security bulletins, how-tos as readiness information for the Technical Account Management.
• Assist with the communication of Deployment review and Health Check information to the Technical Account Managers, Customers and associated departments over the phone and in person.
• Be integral to the change management process ensuring adoption of new processes and tools through performance measures.
• Collaborate with Technical Support, Product Management, Sustaining Engineering, Sales Consultants and Support Management to resolve issues by applying excellent technical, customer service, and interpersonal skills in building solid cross-functional relationships.
• Effectively communicate with customers via email, phone and other electronic methods to work and ensure client s effective use of Tableau products. Maintain excellent relationships with Tableau customers by applying superb customer service and technical skills. Perform in-depth troubleshooting and health-check on logs to identify root cause while understanding the customer s skill level and communicating with them in the manner most appropriate. Use excellent judgment on when and how to communicate with customer for maximum effectiveness and customer satisfaction
• Collaborate and consult with Tableau Technical Account Managers to successfully integrate (installation, data connectivity, analysis and performance, health-check configurations) the application into their business, and to resolve highly complex technical issues associated with upgrades, migrations, performance issues.

Additional Responsibilities:

• Recruitment: Tableau hires company builders; employees are expected to be on the constant lookout for the best talent to bring onboard, helping Tableau continue to build one of the best companies in the world.
• Other Support Readiness or Technical Support duties may be assigned.

Knowledge/Skill/Experience/Education Requirements:

• Education BA/BS degree in Computer Science or equivalent technical or quantitative degrees required, advanced degree preferred.
• Experienced 3 - 5 years experience of relevant professional experience with development and using telemetry and metric to drive operational excellence. These should include design, analysis, development and implementation of various applications environment using BI Tools.
• Experience programming with at least one Object Oriented programming language (Java, C, C#).
• Experience working with Relational Databases (Relational Database Management Systems like Oracle, Postgres preferred).
• Experience working with web technologies (Eg: Javascript, Coffeescript, React, AngularJS, AJAX, HTML, CSS).
• Solid knowledge of database / big data / distributed technologies.
• Experience in public cloud engineering on GCP, AWS, Alibaba and/or Azure platforms
• Strong hands on experience implementing dashboarding, data visualizations, and analytics using Tableau desktop and Server.
• Created Tableau scorecards, dashboards using stack bars, bar graphs, scatter plots, geographical maps, Gantt charts using show me functionality.
• Good experience on dashboards designing with large data volumes from various data sources (SQLserver, teradata, postgres etc).
• Expertise Configuring Repository, Create/Manage Dashboards, Reports/Answers and building Reporting Templates and Presentations.
• Experienced in Analyzing BI Needs, interpreting Technical and Business Users requirements and translating them into reports.
• Good interactions with stakeholders, understanding Business Applications, Business Data Flow and Data Relations.
• Good understanding of technical trends, N-Tier software application architectures and highly motivated to know more about latest technologies and new software products
• Team player with good communication skills and interpersonal skills. Responsible for interacting with business partners to identify information needs and business/technical requirements for reports.
• Successfully conveys complex concepts and information to a broad audience
• Problem analyst and Solver Demonstrates a deep understanding of data gathering processes, analysis, trend identification, and report development and automation.
• Detail-oriented Ability to grasp and apply analysis concepts and break down a problem to achieve conclusions. Also have the capacity to manage multiple competing priorities simultaneously in a fast paced and ever changing environment
• Experience using CRM applications; Salesforce.com or equivalent

Tableau will operate independently under the Tableau brand, driving forward a continued focus on our mission, our customers and our Tableau Community. The acquisition closed on August 1, 2019, and Tableau is a wholly-owned subsidiary of salesforce.com, inc.#LI-JL2Accommodations - If you require assistance due to a disability applying for open positions please submit a request via this Accommodations Request Form.Posting StatementAt Salesforce we believe that the business of business is to improve the state of our world. Each of us has a responsibility to drive Equality in our communities and workplaces. We are committed to creating a workforce that reflects society through inclusive programs and initiatives such as equal pay, employee resource groups, inclusive benefits, and more. Learn more about Equality at Salesforce and explore our benefits.Salesforce.com and Salesforce.org are Equal Employment Opportunity and Affirmative Action Employers. Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender perception or identity, national origin, age, marital status, protected veteran status, or disability status. Salesforce.com and Salesforce.org do not accept unsolicited headhunter and agency resumes. Salesforce.com and Salesforce.org will not pay any third-party agency or company that does not have a signed agreement with Salesfore.com or Salesforce.org.Salesforce welcomes all.,

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