Data Analyst - Tableau Specialist

Square One Resources
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Job Title:Data Analyst - Tableau Specialist

Location:Remote - Ad Hoc visit to Central London office for Workshops

Salary/Rate:Up to £560 Per Day Inside IR35

Start Date:May 2025

Job Type:6 Month Contract


Company Introduction


My client within the Professional services industry are immediately seeking an experienced Tableau Data Analyst with particular emphasis with Tableau, SQL and strong Data Visualisation experience.


This is a Greenfield project so candidates will be able to have a real influence of how things are done going forward.


The successful candidate for this position would have created good-quality, usable business dashboards in Tableau, typically working with 350-400 dashboard users.


  • Excellent commercial Tableau experience is a must for this role
  • Excellent commercial SQL experience is a must for this role
  • The work involves migrating Tableau reports from the current Data Warehouse to a Snowflake Data warehouse, so Snowflake experience would be a big advantage


Required Skills/Experience


  1. Tableau expertise with strong Data Visualisation and design skills
  2. Power BI experience
  3. Proficiency with SQL, Snowflake and DBT.
  4. Familiarity with AWS or other equivalent cloud technologies, in particular Lambda, S3, Athena.


Job Responsibilities/Objectives


  1. Develop and design reports and dashboards in Tableau
  2. Update existing dashboards as part of Data Warehouse migration
  3. Data cleansing, preparation and modelling using DBT or AWS Athena
  4. Requirement gathering and translating to business needs
  5. Cloud Infrastructure knowledge will be a big advantage for this role.
  6. Experience of managing IT Assets would be a big advantage for this role.
  7. Version Control experience will be very beneficial.
  8. GIT experience will be very nice to have.


If you are interested in this opportunity, please apply now with your updated CV in Microsoft Word/PDF format.


Disclaimer


Notwithstanding any guidelines given to level of experience sought, we will consider candidates from outside this range if they can demonstrate the necessary competencies.


Square One is acting as both an employment agency and an employment business, and is an equal opportunities recruitment business. Square One embraces diversity and will treat everyone equally. Please see our website for our full diversity statement.

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