Cambridge Investment Research

Tableau Engineer

Cambridge Investment Research$95K — $115K *
Enterprise Technology
5 - 7 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 5+ years in business intelligence/data visualization development, with 3+ years in Tableau.
  • Advanced skills in Tableau Desktop, Server, or Cloud, and Tableau Prep.
  • Strong SQL proficiency, especially with Snowflake or similar cloud platforms.
  • Experience in calculated fields, level-of-detail expressions, and dynamic dashboards.
  • Solid understanding of data warehousing and dimensional modeling principles.
  • Experience integrating Tableau with enterprise platforms like Snowflake and Azure.
  • Ability to create clear insights from complex datasets, focusing on data storytelling.

Responsibilities

  • Design, develop, and maintain Tableau dashboards for various decision-making levels.
  • Gather business requirements and translate them into effective visual solutions.
  • Collaborate with data engineers to build BI solutions on performant data sources.
  • Create and maintain semantic layers and certified data sources for consistency.
  • Optimize dashboard performance through efficient data modeling and query design.
  • Ensure high-quality user experience focused on accessibility and storytelling in visualizations.
  • Support Tableau Server or Cloud, including publishing and user permissions.
  • Implement governance and security practices across business intelligence solutions.
  • Document visual solutions for end-user guidance and understanding.
  • Collab with cross-functional teams to influence reporting standards.

Benefits

  • Comprehensive premium benefits including medical, vision, dental, and disability insurance.
  • Generous vacation and sick time.
  • 401K retirement plan with matching contributions.
  • Eleven paid holidays.
Full Job Description
Job Summary

Key Deliverables and Responsibilities

The Senior Tableau Engineer designs, develops, and maintains high-quality business intelligence solutions that enable data-driven decisions across Cambridge. This hands-on role partners with analytics, data engineering, and business stakeholders to turn trusted data into intuitive, performant, and actionable dashboards and reports. The position focuses on the presentation, usability, and consumption layer of the data platform, helping ensure insights are accessible, reliable, secure, and aligned with business needs.

What You'll Do:
  • Dashboard Development: Design, develop, and maintain Tableau dashboards, workbooks, and visual analytics solutions for operational, tactical, and strategic decision-making.
  • Business Partnership: Gather requirements, clarify KPIs and metrics, and translate business questions into effective visual solutions.
  • Trusted Data: Partner with data engineers and data architects to build BI solutions on well-modeled, performant, analytics-ready data sources.
  • Metric Consistency: Develop and maintain semantic layers, calculated fields, parameters, filters, and certified data sources that promote reuse and consistent definitions.
  • Performance Optimization: Improve dashboard speed and scalability through efficient data modeling, query design, extract strategies, caching, and live-connection best practices.
  • Visualization and UX: Apply layout, accessibility, storytelling, and user-experience standards to create intuitive, consistent, and visually compelling analytics.
  • Platform Support: Support Tableau Server or Tableau Cloud publishing, permissions, content organization, user support, enhancements, and production troubleshooting.
  • Governance and Security: Implement data governance, access controls, row-level security, lineage, and data-quality practices across BI solutions.
  • Documentation: Document dashboards, data sources, business logic, calculations, and usage guidance for end users.
  • Collaboration: Work across analytics, product, business, and technology teams to influence delivery standards and reporting operating models.

What We Are Looking For
  • 5+ years of experience in business intelligence or data visualization development, including at least three years of hands-on Tableau experience in an enterprise environment.
  • Advanced proficiency with Tableau Desktop, Tableau Server or Tableau Cloud, and Tableau Prep.
  • Strong SQL skills and experience with Snowflake or a similar cloud data platform.
  • Experience with calculated fields, level of detail expressions, table calculations, parameter-driven dashboards, and dynamic navigation.
  • Solid understanding of data warehousing, dimensional modeling, medallion architecture, semantic layers, and analytics-ready data structures.
  • Experience integrating Tableau with enterprise platforms, including Snowflake, Azure, and APIs.
  • Ability to validate and reconcile data with source systems and partner with data engineering teams on Gold-layer readiness, KPI definitions, and metric standardization.
  • Ability to translate complex datasets into clear, actionable insights and executive-level stories.
  • Strong attention to detail, data quality, visual design, and customer service.
  • Ability to manage multiple priorities, work independently, collaborate effectively, and troubleshoot production issues quickly.


Why Cambridge?

Cambridge has competitive benefits and promotes a work/life balance to encourage individual success.
  • Premium benefit package including medical, vision, dental, life and long-term disability insurance
  • Vacation/sick time
  • 401K retirement plan with company matching program
  • Eleven paid holidays


You can find more details about our comprehensive benefits package here.

About Cambridge Investment Research

Cambridge Investment Research is a privately owned financial services firm that provides a wide range of services to independent financial advisors and their clients. The company was founded in 1981 and is headquartered in Fairfield, Iowa. Cambridge Investment Research offers a variety of products and services, including investment advisory services, brokerage services, and insurance products. The company is committed to providing independent financial advisors with the tools and resources they need to help their clients achieve their financial goals. Cambridge Investment Research has been recognized as one of the top independent broker-dealers in the United States.
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