Data Visualization Developer

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Job description

About
Macy's is proudly America's Department Store. For more than 160 years, Macy's has served
generations at every stage of their lives. Our customers come to us for fashion, value and celebration.

Macy's Marketing delivers a healthy, profitable customer franchise that is growing through
engagement and acquisition. Our team leads strategic initiatives such as personalization and
monetization, as well as our Star Rewards Loyalty program.

Take the helm of one of the world's most beloved brands and help bring it to life for our customers. As
part of our team, you'll own, guide, and direct marketing efforts, motivating our customers to
strengthen their relationship with our brand. Constantly creating, innovating, and exploring the new,
you'll drive customer engagement and loyalty while sparking excitement.

Job Overview
We are seeking a Data Visualization (Tableau) Developer to join us. You'll work directly with the
business and technology teams to develop compelling visual analytics that tell the Macys.com story
and drive business objectives. This position will give you invaluable direct experience leading within a
team that is using most exciting new technologies and practices in the fast paced and competitive
world of data science and analytics. Qualified candidates will be creative, methodical in their approach
to problem solving, and detail oriented. Applicants should have multiple years of experience solving
complex business problems using Tableau in association with a number of back end systems.

Essential Functions
- Meet directly with business users to understand and clarify reporting requirements and
translate them to actionable visualization tools.
- Build compelling, robust, effective interactive dashboards in Tableau that answer key business
questions.
- Integrate Tableau or other BI tools with various database technologies such as Hadoop, Google
Cloud, SQL server and others.
- Create data models that ensure peak performance for Tableau dashboards.
- Keep current on new technologies and techniques as they relate to Data Visualization, Data
Science, and Automation, and bring them into the team's work.
- Mentor and train newer Tableau developers. Conduct group and one on one sessions with less
experienced Tableau users.
- Help to develop and maintain reporting standards and best practices for data visualization, and
evangelize or enforce them when appropriate.
- Work with the Tableau Admin team to ensure the stability and performance of the Tableau Server ecosystem.

Qualifications and Competencies

Required Qualifications:
- 4+ years experience in an analytical role
- Bachelor's degree in a quantitative field or a social science field with a quantitative emphasis
- Experience in data analysis. An emphasis in retail, marketing, e-commerce, internet advertising, SEO or SEM is a plus.
- Workable knowledge of SQL

Preferred Qualifications:
- 4+ years in an analytical role
- 3-4 years experience with Tableau
- Working knowledge of SQL and database architecture

Additional skills and experience helpful but not required
- Knowledge JavaScript, Python, R or programming languages
- Experience with web design languages including HTML and CSS

Competencies
- You must be experienced with framing and attempting to solve analytical questions using data
in order to further organizational goals.
- You should be both technical and design oriented: you have experience working with data and
you understand why color matters.
- You should understand how to communicate effectively with multiple audiences, such as data
architects and business leaders. You can modify your message according to your audience.
- You have a demonstrated commitment to innovation.
- You are a self-starter, driven and accountable.
- You have excellent attention to detail.

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