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Title: Director of Engineering - Tableau

Location: Bangalore, India

Role Description:

Tableau introduced the power of visual analytics to the world, making it the de-facto standard in the enterprise. Tableau is as much a philosophy as an incredible platform. We help people see and understand their data, allowing them to make important decisions based on those insights. If you are passionate about technology and care deeply about doing something impactful, Tableau is the place for you. 

Tableau has been the leader in the Gartner’s BI and Analytics Magic Quadrant. We've continuously invested in research and development at an unrivaled pace, developing solutions to help anyone working with data to get to answers faster and uncover unanticipated insights. Tableau helps customers to deploy and scale a data-driven culture driving resilience and value through powerful outcomes.

As we embark on the journey of the next generation of analytics where Tableau brings a  reimagined data experience for business users that will empower every employee with smart, personalized, and contextual insights delivered directly in their flow of work, the engineering team in India is responsible for building platforms, services, experiences and composable components that make the product enterprise grade, and operate at cloud scale! We are looking for a seasoned engineering leader with extraordinary technical skills, management experience and real passion for innovation to lead an amazing team of engineers and help drive the future of Tableau. As the Director of Engineering, you will define and lead the technical roadmap and strategy for your areas and teams. You will partner closely with the Product team and deliver customer impact through new features or experiences and by scaling the existing product.

Responsibilities:

• Define and drive technical roadmap for the team, managing both short and long term technology investments.

• Lead multiple engineering teams to implement and deploy complex software solution that meets security, scalability and performance requirements

• Represent your team to key stakeholders, internal and external audiences with differing levels of technical proficiency

• Partner closely with product management, user experience, and other engineering teams to create, drive, and deliver intuitive experiences to our customers.

• Collaborate with other leaders and stakeholders on organization-wide initiatives and influence long term platform architecture roadmap

• Develop and grow talent through effective mentoring, succession planning, and retention strategies for key talent in a fast growth economic environment

• Foster a culture of collaboration, engineering/operational excellence and regular delivery of customer value

Qualifications

• 15+ years in software experience with 7+ years people management experience, including managing managers.

• Experience with large scale distributed systems and shipping enterprise software with multiple dependencies in a high impact area.

• Experience building complex, large scale distributed systems that have been successfully delivered to customers. Knowledge of the data analytics domain will be an added advantage.

• Experience building and leading diverse engineering teams with a collaborative and inclusive culture, focused on delivering customer value. 

• Solid understanding of Agile development and modern DevOps practices.

• High level of accountability, bias to action and a desire to empower individuals on the team to perform at their best.

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills with the ability to communicate effectively across disciplines and to various levels of an organization.

• Bachelor's degree (or higher) in Computer Science, Software Engineering or equivalent experience. A management degree would be an added advantage!

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