Tableau Platform Admin

At Lilly, we unite caring with discovery to make life better for people around the world. We are a global healthcare leader headquartered in Indianapolis, Indiana. Our employees around the world work to discover and bring life-changing medicines to those who need them, improve the understanding and management of disease, and give back to our communities through philanthropy and volunteerism. We give our best effort to our work, and we put people first. We’re looking for people who are determined to make life better for people around the world.

Come help us deliver cutting-edge Analytics Platforms with the power of automation, governance, and enterprise-scale Tableau excellence!

The Tech@Lilly team is actively seeking an experienced Tableau Platform Administrator.

Are you passionate about enabling enterprise analytics, optimizing visualization platforms, and driving automation at scale? Do you enjoy owning mission-critical BI infrastructure, strengthening governance, and empowering data-driven decision-making across a global organization? If so, bring YOUR expertise to Lilly—where your work accelerates scientific discovery, sharpens insights, and improves patient outcomes.

What You’ll Be Doing:

You will serve as the primary administrator for Lilly’s Tableau platform—driving architecture strategy, ensuring 24/7 reliability, and supporting scalable, secure analytics adoption across the enterprise. You will collaborate closely with infrastructure, data engineering, cloud, and security teams to maintain a modern, high-performance analytics ecosystem. You will also drive platform optimization, automation, and operational excellence across global Tableau environments.

How You’ll Succeed:

• Lead installation, upgrades, and large-scale deployments of Tableau Server and Tableau Cloud across Dev, QA, and Production environments.
• Architect and maintain high-availability, clustered, and failover configurations to support enterprise BI workloads.
• Plan and execute patches, version upgrades, and security updates with minimal business disruption.
• Optimize data extracts, schedules, subscriptions, VizQL performance, and resource utilization.
• Define, implement, and enforce governance for projects, data sources, workbooks, permissions, extracts, and lifecycle management.
• You will perform regular Corrective and Preventive Actions (CAPA) that includes but not limited to certificate renewal, password rotations, security patching, qualify documents and SharePoint articles updates.
• Conduct regular audits and generate insights on platform usage, performance, refresh reliability, and capacity analytics.
• Develop automation scripts and DevOps pipelines using Tableau REST API, PowerShell, Python, and monitoring utilities to reduce manual effort.
• Implement automated inventory management, monitoring, and usage tracking across Tableau assets.
• Partner with infrastructure, networking, cloud, database, and security teams to troubleshoot complex issues and improve platform resilience.
• Support integrations across Azure, AWS, Snowflake, Databricks, and hybrid data ecosystems.
• Lead performance tuning, capacity planning, scaling strategy, and optimization initiatives.
• Mentor junior administrators, establish SOPs, and drive standard methodologies for platform operations.
• Act as the enterprise Tableau SME—guiding stakeholders, assessing risk, and communicating platform strategy.

What You Should Bring:

• Deep understanding of Tableau Server/Cloud architecture, including capacity management, HA/DR strategies, and integration patterns.
• Proven ability to optimize extract refresh, VizQL performance, and server resource distribution.
• Expertise using Tableau REST API, TabCmd, PowerShell, and automated administrative workflows.
• Advanced SQL skills for troubleshooting, data validation, and performance analysis.
• Experience administering identity and security models, including SSO, SAML, OAuth, Azure AD, or AD.
• Familiarity with cloud ecosystems (Azure, AWS, Snowflake, Databricks) and hybrid analytics deployments.
• Experience with Git-based workflows and DevOps practices.
• Strong communication, problem-solving, and stakeholder engagement skills.
• Ability to translate business requirements into platform capabilities and enhancements.
• Preferred experience administering complementary BI tools such as Power BI, Spotfire, or SAP BusinessObjects.
• Strong documentation skills for Security and CSQA compliance.
• Advanced SQL capability and proficiency with scripting tools such as PowerShell, Python, or Tableau REST API.

Basic Requirements:

• High School Diploma/GED with 5 plus years of enterprise Tableau Server administration experience.
• 5 Plus years of hands-on experience with Tableau Server, Tableau Cloud, and enterprise BI administration.
• Demonstrated experience with upgrades, configuration, monitoring, and enterprise deployments.
• Experience supporting enterprise BI operations, migrations, DR planning, and governance frameworks.
• Experience with ServiceNow or similar ticketing systems.

Qualified applicants must be authorized to work in the United States on a full-time basis. Lilly will not provide support for or sponsor work authorization or visas for this role, including but not limited to F-1 CPT, F-1 OPT, F-1 STEM OPT, J-1, H-1B, TN, O-1, E-3, H-1B1, or L-1.

Additional Information:

• Onsite role located in Indianapolis, Indiana (relocation required).
• Work Schedule:
  • 11:30am – 8:30pm EST (Nov-Mar)
  • 12:30pm – 9:30 pm EDT (Mar-Nov)
• Less than 5% travel

Organization Overview

Lilly IT builds and maintains capabilities using cutting edge technologies like most prominent tech companies. What differentiates Lilly IT is that we redefine what’s possible through tech to advance our purpose – creating medicines that make life better for people around the world, like data driven drug discovery and connected clinical trials. We hire the best technology professionals from a variety of backgrounds, so they can bring an assortment of knowledge, skills, and diverse thinking to deliver innovative solutions in every area of our business.

The Global Information and Services Tech team is at the forefront of digitalization to enable and advance the entire company, with increased productivity and best-in-class Customer experiences. This team provides a robust and sustainable infrastructure of hardware, software and services that are critical to enable our global workforce and business to operate and transform. As leaders in technology and understanding business requirements and challenges, this team defines and leads the overall company technology strategy.

Lilly is dedicated to helping individuals with disabilities to actively engage in the workforce, ensuring equal opportunities when vying for positions. If you require accommodation to submit a resume for a position at Lilly, please complete the accommodation request form (https://careers.lilly.com/us/en/workplace-accommodation) for further assistance. Please note this is for individuals to request an accommodation as part of the application process and any other correspondence will not receive a response.

Lilly is proud to be an EEO Employer and does not discriminate on the basis of age, race, color, religion, gender identity, sex, gender expression, sexual orientation, genetic information, ancestry, national origin, protected veteran status, disability, or any other legally protected status.

Our employee resource groups (ERGs) offer strong support networks for their members and are open to all employees. Our current groups include: Africa, Middle East, Central Asia Network, Black Employees at Lilly, Chinese Culture Network, Japanese International Leadership Network (JILN), Lilly India Network, Organization of Latinx at Lilly (OLA), PRIDE (LGBTQ+ Allies), Veterans Leadership Network (VLN), Women’s Initiative for Leading at Lilly (WILL), enAble (for people with disabilities). Learn more about all of our groups.

Actual compensation will depend on a candidate’s education, experience, skills, and geographic location.  The anticipated wage for this position is

Full-time equivalent employees also will be eligible for a company bonus (depending, in part, on company and individual performance). In addition, Lilly offers a comprehensive benefit program to eligible employees, including eligibility to participate in a company-sponsored 401(k); pension; vacation benefits; eligibility for medical, dental, vision and prescription drug benefits; flexible benefits (e.g., healthcare and/or dependent day care flexible spending accounts); life insurance and death benefits; certain time off and leave of absence benefits; and well-being benefits (e.g., employee assistance program, fitness benefits, and employee clubs and activities).Lilly reserves the right to amend, modify, or terminate its compensation and benefit programs in its sole discretion and Lilly’s compensation practices and guidelines will apply regarding the details of any promotion or transfer of Lilly employees.

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