Overview:Provides advanced engineering, administration, and operational support for the enterprise Tableau platform. The role configures and maintains Tableau Server services across non-production, production, and disaster recovery environments; manages security and authentication; monitors performance and capacity; and delivers upgrades, automation, resiliency, and reliable reporting services.
Primary Responsibilities - Administer, configure, and maintain Tableau Server environments across Development, QA, Production, and Disaster Recovery.
- Engineer and support multi-node Tableau Server clusters, Tableau Services Manager configurations, licensing, topology, background processes, and server settings.
- Configure and support Active Directory, SAML/SSO, SSL certificates, role-based access, and secure integration with enterprise identity services.
- Manage users, groups, sites, projects, permissions, schedules, subscriptions, extract refreshes, and administrative governance processes.
- Monitor platform health, availability, capacity, backgrounder workloads, extract performance, resource utilization, and user experience; proactively remediate issues.
- Plan and execute Tableau Server upgrades, patching, maintenance, migrations, configuration changes, and post-implementation validation.
- Troubleshoot complex server, application, authentication, database connectivity, extract, and dashboard performance issues in partnership with infrastructure, database, networking, and application teams.
- Implement and test backup, recovery, high-availability, and disaster-recovery capabilities and operating procedures.
- Develop automation and operational tooling for administration, monitoring, maintenance, evidence collection, and repeatable deployments.
- Support platform governance, security, audit, compliance, incident response, problem management, and vendor coordination.
- Work closely with Technology management, senior engineers, business partners, and support teams to design, implement, and manage technical solutions that meet current and future organizational needs.
- Review infrastructure and platform designs; create and maintain architecture, operating, support, standards, and implementation documentation.
- Independently engage business and technology partners to clarify problems and opportunities, gather requirements, and translate requirements into secure, supportable technical solutions.
- Coordinate vendor interactions and vendor resources as needed, including issue escalation, upgrade planning, and product support.
- Mentor and coach less experienced engineers, technicians, and integrators; review technical documentation, proposals, and changes.
- Follow and promote industry best practices, enterprise standards, and disciplined change, incident, problem, release, and configuration management processes.
- Maintain detailed knowledge of supported platforms, integrations, infrastructure dependencies, and vendor technologies used by the Bank.
- Support vulnerability remediation, patching, upgrades, operational stability, root-cause analysis, and continuous service improvement.
- Understand and adhere to the Company's risk and regulatory standards, policies, and controls in accordance with the Company's Risk Appetite; identify risk-related issues requiring escalation to management.
- Maintain M&T internal control standards, including timely implementation of internal and external audit points and remediation of issues raised by regulators, as applicable.
- Promote an environment that supports belonging and reflects the M&T Bank brand.
- Complete other related duties as assigned.
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- Support Microsoft Entra ID integration for BI platforms, including enterprise applications, security groups, service principals, managed identities, authentication, role-based access control, and least-privilege permissions.
Education and Experience Required - Combined minimum of 6 years of higher education and/or work experience in technical engineering, infrastructure engineering, systems engineering, platform engineering, systems administration, or a related field.
- Experience administering, configuring, deploying, and maintaining enterprise Tableau Server environments.
- Experience with Tableau Services Manager, multi-node architectures, platform monitoring, upgrades, patching, and troubleshooting.
- Experience managing enterprise authentication, Active Directory groups, SAML/SSO, SSL certificates, permissions, and role-based security.
- Experience supporting Windows or Linux server environments and relational database connectivity.
- PowerShell, shell scripting, or other automation experience.
- Strong analytical, problem-solving, troubleshooting, documentation, and communication skills.
- Ability to collaborate effectively across technology, business, database, infrastructure, security, and vendor teams.
Education and Experience Preferred- Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Information Systems, or related field.
- Minimum 6 years' professional experience in a technical engineering position involving BI Analytics tools administration.
- Experience with Tableau Server high availability, disaster recovery, backup and restore, performance tuning, capacity planning, and enterprise governance.
- Experience with Oracle, SQL Server, Snowflake, Linux or Windows administration, load balancers, networking, and enterprise monitoring tools.
- Experience in financial services or another highly regulated industry.
- Tableau Server Certified Associate, Tableau Certified Architect, or comparable certification is preferred.
Additional Preferred Competencies- Advanced technical, analytical, troubleshooting, and problem-solving skills.
- Ability to translate complex business and functional requirements into structured, secure, high-quality technical implementations.
- Ability to solicit, document, analyze, and validate system specifications and requirements with diverse stakeholders.
- Understanding of how the supported platform interacts with identity, networking, databases, infrastructure, security, monitoring, backup, and downstream services.
- Effective influencing, facilitation, vendor-management, and stakeholder-communication skills.
- Process-oriented, logical, adaptable, and capable of learning quickly in a fast-paced enterprise environment.
- Ability to work independently while contributing effectively within a collaborative engineering team.
Managerial / Supervisory Responsibility No direct supervisory responsibility. The position is expected to mentor and provide technical guidance to less experienced engineers and support personnel.
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M&T Bank is committed to fair, competitive, and market-informed pay for our employees. The pay range for this position is $106,700.00 - $177,900.00 Annual (USD). The successful candidate's particular combination of knowledge, skills, and experience will inform their specific compensation.
LocationWilmington, Delaware, United States of America
