Job Summary
Seeking a Senior Looker SME to lead enterprise BI modernization initiatives, define semantic modeling standards, architect scalable analytics platforms, and drive Cognos/Tableau/Power BI migrations to Looker on Google Cloud.
Key Responsibilities
- Lead enterprise Looker architecture, governance, and implementation programs.
- Design and manage LookML semantic models, Explores, views, and reusable analytics assets.
- Define enterprise semantic layer and metric governance standards.
- Architect BigQuery-based analytics solutions optimized for Looker consumption.
- Drive dashboard modernization and reporting transformation programs.
- Collaborate with Data Engineering teams on dimensional modeling and data warehouse design.
- Establish best practices for performance tuning, metadata management, and security.
- Lead customer workshops, solution reviews, and executive presentations.
- Mentor Looker developers and BI engineers.
- Develop LookML views, models, Explores, dashboards, and reports.
- Build reusable semantic models aligned with enterprise standards.
- Create executive, operational, and self-service dashboards.
- Optimize Looker performance and query execution.
- Implement security models, user roles, and access controls.
- Work closely with BigQuery and Data Engineering teams.
- Support migration of legacy BI platforms to Looker.
- Participate in code reviews and release deployments.
Skill Requirements
- 4+ years of Looker development experience.
- Strong expertise in LookML.
- Strong SQL development skills.
- BigQuery experience.
- Dimensional modeling and data warehouse concepts.
- Dashboard development and visualization best practices.
- Git-based development lifecycle.
- Experience troubleshooting Looker performance issues.