Tableau Developer (Internal, UW-Madison only)
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- Job Category:
- Academic Staff
- Employment Type:
- Regular
- Job Profile:
- BI Developer III
Job Summary: The Workday Enterprise Solutions Team (WEST) is responsible for the administration and optimization of Workday and related systems for Finance, Human Resources, and Research Administration across the Universities of Wisconsin, while focusing on people, processes, and technology. The WEST Data and Reporting team supports data and reporting needs across the UW universities and the UW System through the development and maintenance of an enterprise data warehouse (the Enterprise Analytics Platform, EAP), Tableau dashboards, Workday reports, BIRT reports, Prism reports, Workday dashboards and discovery boards, and more. We are seeking a Tableau Developer to develop, document, support, and maintain enterprise-level Tableau dashboards built on top of EAP. This individual will participate in appropriate communities of practice and assist with training to ensure a consistent understanding of data across the UW and to raise awareness of resources that already exist and those that are planned. It is expected that there will be close collaboration between the Tableau developer and data warehouse engineers. To be successful in this position, you will need to collaborate with customers and peers across WEST HCM and Finance. You will need to actively foster a respectful, inclusive, and safe team environment. Schedule will be determined with the selected finalist upon hire. The primary schedule will be during business hours on Monday through Friday beginning no later than 9:00AM CST and ending no earlier than 3:00PM CST. There is no expectation of on-call or off-hour work. However, during a critical outage, working off hours and weekends may be required.
- Key Job Responsibilities:
- Designs and documents enterprise BI development standards, assesses impact on existing BI projects, proposes solutions, and shepherds them through stakeholder feedback and governance approval. Resolves highly complex BI development issues escalated from lower-level BI developers
- Works with multiple data domains/sets and data architectures (unstructured/structured) and using advanced expertise in a broad set of enterprise-scale tools, matches the right data presentation modality to user requirements. Employs deep expertise in data visualization and storytelling to design, prototype, test, and deliver accurate, sustainable enterprise solutions for large-scale user populations
- Review and approve, based on scope and requirements, BI developer resource effort and timing to design, build, test, and release BI developer solutions. Understand and balance developer resources across multiple competing projects to mitigate risks. Identify options for backfill or external resource acquisition to fulfil resource req