Director, Technical Consulting (Salesforce & 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. Salesforce is currently seeking a Director,Technical Consulting (Tableau Next) to join our Global Delivery Centre (GDC) team. We are looking for an experienced professional services leader who has experience in scaling professional services delivery centers across the world. In addition The Director — Tableau Next is an execution-focused technical leader responsible for designing and delivering migrations from legacy Business Intelligence and reporting platforms (Cognos, Business Objects, MicroStrategy, Power BI, Looker, legacy Tableau Server) to Tableau Next. As a foundational member of the Strategic Migration CoE and Migration Factory, you will act as primary technical authority for the Tableau Next track — owning the solution design, data architecture, subscriber migration strategy, journey migration blueprint, and Data Cloud unified profile design. You will be owning the analytics platform architecture, legacy BI content migration strategy, data source re-architecture, governance model design and Tableau Next feature adoption roadmap. You will combine deep Tableau expertise with strong data engineering and cloud data platform knowledge to ensure that dashboards, data sources, calculated fields, permissions and governance structures are migrated with full fidelity, improved performance and accelerated time-to-insight for the client's business users. This role is of  people leader and 50% billable role, you will work with our customers and partners as a senior technical architect/program architect/CTO to solve critically important business challenges using Salesforce’s  Cloud. Responsibilities: • Lead a team of up to 8 direct reports, comprising Architects and potentially Managers, providing technical direction, mentorship, and performance leadership. • Serve as a Senior/Principal Technical Architect for Analytics migration projects, contributing hands-on technical expertise and architectural leadership at approximately 50% utilization. • Serve as the Technical Lead for Tableau Next migration workstreams, architecting the end-to-end transition from legacy BI platforms to Tableau Next — including dashboard migration, data source re-architecture, semantic layer design and governance model. • Design the legacy BI content migration strategy — inventorying, assessing and prioritising all legacy reports, dashboards, datasets and calculated fields for migration, retirement or rebuild in Tableau Next. • Architect the Tableau Next data source framework — designing live connections, published data sources, virtual connections, data policies and extract schedules optimised for performance and governance. • Design the Tableau Next site and governance model — including project hierarchy, permission groups, content certification workflow, data quality warnings and usage analytics configuration. • Own the cloud data platform integration architecture — designing connections between Tableau Next and Snowflake, Databricks, BigQu