Data Visualization Engineer

ABOUT THE ROLE:

This Data Visualization Engineer is a versatile, hands-on builder who owns how 𝕏 turns data into decisions. They will administer our current BI platform, build dashboards quickly, and partner with the business to shape a modern, unified reporting and analytics solution.

RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Business-critical responsibilities include, but are not limited to:

  • Administering our BI platform (currently Tableau Server) as its sole administrator: upgrades, patches, maintenance, license management, SSO, and data drivers
  • Supporting 12 department sites and their Site Admins, plus about 700 users, including owning the tbl-site-admins and tableau Slack channels
  • Handling all BI requests through Slack and Jira (about 12 a week): access, ownership changes, data source issues, troubleshooting, and fixing bugs
  • Communicating proactively with Site Admins, users, and developers about downtime, upgrades, and widespread issues
  • Quickly designing and building dashboards and data products that turn complex data into clear, decision-ready insight
  • Maintaining an inventory of existing reports and dashboards and working with business owners to decide what to migrate, rebuild, or retire
  • Helping stakeholders pick the right solution for each use case (dashboard, custom application, Grok team bot, and so on) and leading the migration to it
  • Setting standards for data access, row-level security, and visualization quality

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS:

• Strong SQL, including complex joins, window functions, and performance tuning
• Data visualization and dashboard design: chart selection, UX, and storytelling with data
• Row-level security and data access controls
• Rapid dashboard development in one or more BI tools (Tableau, Looker, Power BI, Superset, or similar)
• Platform administration fundamentals: SSO/SAML, APIs, and monitoring
• Comfort using AI tools to speed up analysis, development, and migrations

PREFERRED SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE:

• Data modeling and warehouse concepts (star schemas, semantic layers) on platforms such as BigQuery, Snowflake, or Databricks
• Python or JavaScript for data prep, automation, or custom visuals

COMPENSATION AND BENEFITS:

$132,000 - $198,000 USD

Base salary is just one part of our total rewards package at SpaceXSI, which also includes equity, comprehensive medical, vision, and dental coverage, access to a 401(k) retirement plan, short & long-term disability insurance, life insurance, and various other discounts and perks.