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# Lead BI Analyst - Tableau

- **Company:** Harnham
- **Location:** Greater London, UK
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Salary:** £56,000.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Cloud Computing, Information Engineering, Data Migration, Data Structures, Data Warehousing, Performance Tuning, SQL Databases, Tableau (Software), Cloud Platform System, Sql Optimization, Technical Debt, Data Layers, Front End Software Development
- **Published:** September 8, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.collegerecruiter.com/job/2856355849-lead-bi-analyst-tableau

## About the Role

* Strong end-to-end Tableau experience, including dashboard and data source development
 * Proven capability in leading or improving a Tableau environment within a business setting
 * Advanced SQL skills, with experience creating and optimising complex queries and data structures
 * Experience working across both reporting and underlying data layers, not limited to front-end development
 * Strong understanding of BI best practices, including performance, usability, and governance
 * Ability to communicate technical concepts clearly to both technical and non-technical stakeholders
 * Exposure to data migration or modernisation programmes is beneficial
 * Experience contributing to or improving BI services within an organisation is advantageous

## Description

As Lead Business Intelligence Analyst, you will act as the technical authority for Tableau and take ownership of BI standards across the organisation. You will focus on improving the scalability, performance, and governance of the existing BI environment while supporting a major cloud migration programme., * Leading end-to-end Tableau development across Desktop, Prep, and Cloud

 * Defining and enforcing best practice for dashboard design, data modelling, and performance optimisation
 * Owning BI governance frameworks, including data quality and reporting standards
 * Supporting and enabling business users to develop self-service analytics capability
 * Writing and optimising complex SQL across cloud and on-premise environments
 * Acting as the escalation point for complex BI and data-related issues
 * Collaborating with data engineering teams on architecture and platform decisions
 * Driving improvements to an existing Tableau estate, reducing technical debt and introducing scalable design patterns
 * Supporting a major data warehouse migration into a cloud platform


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