If you are aspiring to become a Tableau developer, then you have chosen the right path for you, the reason being Tableau is used extensively in the field of Data Science and you must be knowing that Data Science is the hottest technology of this decade. Now I am telling you the skill set that is required to become a Tableau developer:-
You must be proficient in SQL: SQL is going to help you a lot of reason is Data Science and Tableau is all about managing a large amount of data, and those data are stored in database, so knowledge of SQL will help in writing custom queries, that is not possible through to drag and drop functionality to achieve complex data set building.
Learn something about DW(Data Wrangling): You must know the basics of DW such as what are dimensions and facts would be enough to help you get a kickstart to tableau reporting. Watch the below-mentioned Tableau video tutorial to learn more about it. Do all these things and then choose an online Tableau Training Course and learn it completely. And after that course does some projects and then you will be perfect for becoming a Tableau developer. Some extra things which you can do are learn languages like R which is going to help you a lot in your career further.