Lead BI Developer (Tableau) — New York, NY

Job Title: Lead BI Developer (Tableau)

Workplace Type: Hybrid-3 Days Onsite (New York, NY)

Employment Type: Direct Hire

Overview

A leading company is seeking a Lead BI Developer specializing in Tableau to transform complex media data into clear, actionable insights. In this role, you will lead the full lifecycle of advanced Tableau dashboards, from design and development through testing and deployment. Your work will support reporting on audience consumption, advertising performance, content engagement, subscriptions, and revenue-related metrics.

This position offers the opportunity to serve as a technical authority for Tableau development, establish visualization standards, optimize reporting performance, and mentor other BI professionals. You will also help translate advanced analytical models into intuitive dashboards for executive and operational users.

Required Skills

• 10+ years of professional experience in Business Intelligence development.

• At least 5 years of Tableau experience in an enterprise environment.

• Expert knowledge of Tableau Desktop and Tableau Server or Cloud administration and governance.

• Advanced SQL expertise, including complex querying, ETL processes, and performance optimization.

• Experience developing and optimizing Tableau solutions for large datasets, including datasets exceeding 100 million rows.

• Strong background in data modeling and designing structures that support efficient BI reporting.

• Experience with cloud-based data warehouses such as Snowflake, Google BigQuery, or AWS Redshift.

• Ability to manage the complete Tableau dashboard lifecycle, including design, development, testing, and deployment.

• Experience with advanced Tableau capabilities, including:

• Level of Detail expressions

• Data blending

• Dynamic parameters

• Performance tuning

• Ability to develop scalable Tableau data sources and apply visualization standards to media reporting.

• Experience translating analytical models, including attribution and predictive content scoring, into business-focused visualizations.

• Experience building or supporting BI portal environments using Apache Tomcat, PHP, and JavaScript.

• Experience developing custom BI applications that operate as a wrapper around Tableau reports using Tableau APIs.

• Experience integrating a BI portal with backend AI agents to support interaction through text prompts.

• Understanding of media-related metrics such as subscriber churn, ad impressions, video views, content watch time, audience demographics, and campaign ROI.

• Ability to collaborate with stakeholders to define reporting requirements and key performance indicators.

• Experience mentoring developers on dashboard design, data storytelling, SQL optimization, and BI governance.

Nice to Have Skills

• Current Tableau Certified 66fqHdPa66T8 certification or an equivalent advanced certification.

• Experience in the Media, Entertainment, Publishing, or Ad-Tech industries.

• Familiarity with major advertising technology platforms, including Google Ad Manager, DSPs, or SSPs.

• Experience with audience measurement tools such as Nielsen or Comscore.

• Programming experience with PHP, JavaScript, or Python for data preparation and custom web BI portal development.

Bring your Tableau leadership and BI expertise to a role focused on turning complex data into high-impact business insight—apply today.