Director, Technical Consulting (Tableau Next)

Salesforce is seeking a Director, Technical Consulting (Tableau Next) to join our Global Delivery Centre (GDC) team. The successful candidate will be an experienced professional services leader with experience in scaling professional services delivery centers across the world.

The Director , Tableau Next is an execution-focused technical leader responsible for designing and delivering migrations from legacy Business Intelligence and reporting platforms to Tableau Next. As a foundational member of the Strategic Migration CoE and Migration Factory, you will act as primary technical authority for the Tableau Next track , owning the solution design, data architecture, subscriber migration strategy, journey migration blueprint, and Data Cloud unified profile design.

Responsibilities:

• Lead a team of up to 8 direct reports, comprising Architects and potentially Managers, providing technical direction, mentorship, and performance leadership.
• Serve as a Senior/Principal Technical Architect for Analytics migration projects, contributing hands-on technical expertise and architectural leadership at approximately 50% utilization.
• Serve as the Technical Lead for Tableau Next migration workstreams, architecting the end-to-end transition from legacy BI platforms to Tableau Next.
• Design the legacy BI content migration strategy , inventorying, assessing and prioritising all legacy reports, dashboards, datasets and calculated fields for migration, retirement or rebuild in Tableau Next.
• Architect the Tableau Next data source framework , designing live connections, published data sources, virtual connections, data policies and extract schedules optimised for performance and governance.
• Design the Tableau Next site and governance model , including project hierarchy, permission groups, content certification workflow, data quality warnings and usage analytics configuration.
• Own the cloud data platform integration architecture , designing connections between Tableau Next and Snowflake, Databricks, BigQuery, Azure Synapse and Salesforce Data Cloud as analytical data sources.
• Lead the semantic layer and data model migration , translating legacy BI semantic models, universe layers and subject areas into Tableau Next published data source designs and calculations.
• Define end-to-end data lineage for all analytics objects , mapping source data fields through transformation layers to Tableau Next calculated fields, ensuring business logic equivalence is preserved or improved.
• Lead functional and technical discovery workshops with client business intelligence, data engineering and business analytics teams to assess legacy report complexity, data source dependencies and user adoption patterns.
• Manage the functional depth of Source vs. Target systems , maintaining deep understanding of how legacy BI platform features translate to Tableau Next capabilities.
• Serve as a Trusted Advisor to the client, driving conversations with CDOs, Analytics leaders and Enterprise Architects to shape the Tableau Next migration roadmap, data governance strategy and self-service analytics vision.
• Establish best-in-class standards for the Tableau Next migration practice , building reusable dashboard migration templates, data source connection templates, naming convention standards and governance configuration playbooks as factory accelerators.
• Lead performance optimisation , profiling legacy dashboard performance baselines, designing Tableau Next data extracts and published data sources to meet or exceed baseline performance, and establishing performance monitoring.
• Lead cutover planning and execution , including legacy BI platform deprecation scheduling, user access migration, Tableau Next URL/bookmark migration for key dashboards and post-go-live self-service training.
• Identify and mitigate technical risks proactively , data source credential migration, calculated field logic parity gaps, row-level security re-implementation, extract refresh SLA continuity and legacy report complexity underestimation.
• Contribute to the Migration Factory by building reusable Tableau Next migration playbooks, dashboard assessment tools, data source templates and performance benchmarking scripts to reduce wave delivery time.

Experience Requirements:

• 18+ years of experience leading Salesforce technical consulting projects and handling as individual contributors.
• 8+ years of people management experience
• Strong application design skills combined with strong data, integration, and security architecture skills
• Demonstrated experience migrating large BI content estates (500+ reports/dashboards) from legacy platforms to Tableau.

Salesforce & Platform Certifications:

• Tableau Certified Architect (Preferred)
• Tableau Certified Data Analyst (Required)
• Salesforce Certified CRM Analytics and Einstein Discovery Consultant (Required)
• Salesforce Data Cloud Consultant (Preferred)
• Snowflake SnowPro Core or Advanced (Preferred)
• Databricks Certified Associate Developer (Preferred)
• dbt Analytics Engineering Certification (Preferred)

Cross Cutting Qualifications:

• Proven expertise in executing complex data migrations , multiple end-to-end migration projects from legacy systems to Salesforce or vice versa.
• Integration Architecture (Must Have): Understanding of how data flows between systems and the mechanisms for high-volume data transport.
• Data Architecture & Management (Must Have): Expertise in ERD design, data cleansing, managing high volumes of data and Large Data Volume (LDV) strategies.
• Platform Security (Must Have): Knowledge of data encryption, field-level security, Shield and compliance-aligned data movement during migration windows.
• Identity & Access Management (Must Have): Understanding of user migration, permission set mapping, SSO and visibility model design.
• Sharing & Visibility (Must Have): How migrated data will be secured and accessed post-deployment.
• Platform Development (Must Have): Proficiency in Apex, Async Design, Governor limit, LWC components and Salesforce Flows.
• Excellent communication skills , ability to articulate complex migration strategies to both technical teams and C-suite business stakeholders.
• Ability to work in a factory delivery model , reusing and contributing to shared accelerators, playbooks and templates across concurrent wave teams.