Technical Architect — Tableau Next

To get the best candidate experience, please consider applying for a maximum of 3 roles within 12 months to ensure you are not duplicating efforts. Job Category Customer Success Job Details About Salesforce Salesforce is the #1 AI CRM, where humans with agents drive customer success together. Here, ambition meets action. Tech meets trust. And innovation isn’t a buzzword — it’s a way of life. The world of work as we know it is changing and we're looking for Trailblazers who are passionate about bettering business and the world through AI, driving innovation, and keeping Salesforce's core values at the heart of it all. Ready to level-up your career at the company leading workforce transformation in the agentic era? You’re in the right place! Agentforce is the future of AI, and you are the future of Salesforce. Role Overview   The Technical Architect for Tableau Next is an execution-focused analytics architect and primary subject matter expert for the Tableau Next platform. You will design and deliver migrations from Salesforce CRM Analytics, Cognos, Business Objects, MicroStrategy, Power BI, Looker, and legacy Tableau Server to a modern data stack. As the primary technical authority for this migration track, you will own the Tableau Next analytics platform architecture, legacy content migration strategy, and feature adoption roadmap. Operating at the forefront of the modern data stack, you will architect scalable and secure solutions that bridge Data Cloud’s foundational architecture with Tableau Next. You will combine deep Analytics, Data 360, and Salesforce knowledge to ensure dashboards, data sources, permissions, and security structures are migrated with full fidelity, improved performance, and accelerated time-to-insight for business users. You will use approved enterprise AI tools as an authorized input to relevant architecture, migration, analysis, and documentation work. You will validate AI-assisted outputs, test assumptions, protect sensitive information, and remain accountable for technical decisions, migration quality, and customer outcomes.   Core Responsibilities • Tableau Next Platform Ownership: Act as the definitive technical authority for Tableau Next, leading the end-to-end transition of dashboards and reporting from Salesforce CRM Analytics, Cognos, Business Objects, MicroStrategy, Power BI, Looker, and legacy Tableau Server. • AI-Assisted Architecture and Migration: Use approved enterprise AI tools to support architecture documentation, legacy-to-target mappings, migration planning, test-case development, diagnostics, and technical communications. Apply expert judgment to validate outputs and preserve business logic, data fidelity, and platform compatibility. • Security and Governance Architecture: Design and implement comprehensive data governance and security frameworks within the new architecture, enforcing policy-based data visibility and row-level security (RLS) to ensure strict, role-aligned data access. • Human Accountability and Validation: Review AI-assisted recommendations, mappings, and analysis for accuracy, completeness, security, privacy, and alignment with approved architecture and governance standards before they inform delivery or customer decisions. • Data Source Architecture: Architect the data source framework using Analytics, Data 360, and Salesforce knowledge to design live connections and optimized models tailored for Tableau Next. • Data Ingestion and Engineering: Own and manage data ingestion directly within Salesforce Data Cloud to power the Tableau Next reporting layer. • Semantic Layer Design: Design and build the semantic layer strictly within Salesforce Data Cloud to support all Tableau Next analytical requirements. • Model Translation: Map and translate legacy BI semant