Tableau Data Architect - Buyers Edge Platform

We’re seeking a Tableau Data Architect to design and optimize the data architecture that powers our enterprise analytics ecosystem. This role is responsible for architecting scalable, governed, and high-performing Tableau data models that enable actionable insights across our business. You’ll partner closely with data engineering, analytics, and business stakeholders to ensure that our Tableau Cloud environment delivers consistent, trusted, and performant reporting and analytics at scale including leveraging the full capabilities of Tableau Next and its AI-powered features.

This is a hands-on, strategic role for someone who can bridge the gap between data engineering and business intelligence strategy building systems that empower both analysts and executives.

Who we are:

Buyers Edge Platform is a leading digital procurement network and solutions provider for the foodservice industry, delivering savings, insights, and technology that help operators, distributors, and manufacturers succeed. Through its portfolio of solutions—including Digital Procurement Network, Fresh Services, Software Solutions, and Supply Chain Management—Buyers Edge is reshaping how the foodservice industry connects and thrives. At the heart of our work is a culture built on a passion for collaboration, technology, and helping foodservice business succeed.

We are unable to offer sponsorship for this role.

Your impact:

Data Governance & Quality

• Own the enterprise data governance framework within Tableau Cloud, including data source certification workflows, Tableau Catalog configuration (lineage tracking, data quality warnings, sensitivity labels), metric governance via Tableau Pulse, and enforcement of naming conventions, access controls, and content promotion policies.
• Implement and manage row-level security, object-level security, and Virtual Connection-level entitlements to centralize and enforce data access controls.
• Leverage the Platform Data API to build automated audit trails, activity monitoring pipelines, and compliance dashboards for ongoing governance observability.
• Partner with BI to maintain a single source of truth for KPIs and metrics across the organization.

Tableau Next & AI-Ready Architecture

• Lead the design and governance of the semantic data model to support Tableau Next AI features, including Tableau Pulse and Einstein Copilot, ensuring metric definitions are trusted, consistent, and AI-ready.
• Own Tableau Pulse metric definitions - defining, certifying, and deprecating official metrics organization-wide.
• Guide governance and quality standards for AI-generated content to ensure outputs align with the organization’s trusted data standards.

Architect and Design Tableau Data Models

• Develop optimized semantic layers and certified data sources for Tableau dashbo