Director, Technical Consulting (Tableau Next)

About the role

Salesforce is seeking a Director, Technical Consulting (Tableau Next) for its Global Delivery Centre team. This is an execution-focused technical leader and people manager responsible for designing and delivering migrations from legacy BI and reporting platforms (Cognos, Business Objects, MicroStrategy, Power BI, Looker, legacy Tableau Server) to Tableau Next. The role is 50% billable and works with customers and partners as a senior technical architect, program architect or CTO.

Key responsibilities

• Lead a team of up to 8 direct reports, including Architects and potentially Managers, providing technical direction, mentorship and performance leadership.
• Act as Senior/Principal Technical Architect for analytics migration projects at about 50% utilization.
• Architect the end-to-end Tableau Next migration, including dashboard migration, data source re-architecture, semantic layer design and governance model.
• Design the legacy BI content migration strategy and the Tableau Next data source framework, including live connections, published data sources, virtual connections and extract schedules.
• Design the Tableau Next site and governance model, including project hierarchy, permission groups, content certification workflow and usage analytics.
• Integrate Tableau Next with Snowflake, Databricks, BigQuery, Azure Synapse and Salesforce Data Cloud, and migrate semantic models and data lineage while preserving business logic.
• Run discovery workshops with client BI, data engineering and analytics teams, and act as trusted advisor to CDOs, analytics leaders and enterprise architects.
• Build reusable migration templates, naming conventions and governance playbooks, and lead performance optimization and cutover planning.
• Manage technical risks such as credential migration, calculated field parity, row-level security and extract refresh SLAs.
• Contribute to the Migration Factory with reusable playbooks, assessment tools and benchmarking scripts.

Required profile

• 18+ years of experience leading Salesforce technical consulting projects as an individual contributor.
• 8+ years of people management experience.
• Demonstrated experience migrating large BI estates (500+ reports/dashboards) to Tableau.
• Tableau Certified Data Analyst (required); Salesforce Certified CRM Analytics and Einstein Discovery Consultant (required); Tableau Certified Architect, Salesforce Data Cloud Consultant, Snowflake SnowPro, Databricks Associate Developer and dbt certifications preferred.
• Proven multi-project data migration experience and ability to work in a factory delivery model.

Required skills

• Integration architecture: understanding of data flow and high-volume data transport.
• Data architecture and management: ERD design, data cleansing, LDV strategies.
• Platform security: encryption, field-level security, Shield and compliance-aligned data movement.
• Identity and access management: user migration, permission sets, SSO and visibility models.
• Sharing and visibility of migrated data after deployment.
• Platform development: Apex, async design, governor limits, LWC components and Salesforce Flows.
• Excellent communication with technical teams and C-suite stakeholders.