gcs recruitmentKing of Prussia, PA
Senior Looker Administrator
Senior Looker Administrator
Senior Looker Administrator
gcs recruitmentKing of Prussia, PA
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Senior Looker Administrator We are seeking a Senior Looker Administrator to help operate, modernize, and migrate an enterprise Looker environment. This position will serve as a senior technical resource responsible for platform reliability, administration, governance, integrations, and advanced Looker capabilities.
Responsibilities:
- Looker Platform Administration
- Provide advanced L3/L4 support across Looker Development and Production environments
- Manage and validate platform upgrades, releases, and patches
- Coordinate Dev/Prod deployments and LookML workflows
- Troubleshoot complex platform, modeling, query, and performance issues
- Security & Governance
- Develop scripted processes for user provisioning and entitlement management
- Troubleshoot Azure AD synchronization and entitlement drift
- Establish access governance standards and platform guardrails
- Maintain technical documentation and operational standards
- Looker APIs & Advanced Capabilities
- Support Looker APIs, including Admin APIs, Inline Queries, and Query IDEvaluate platform performance, concurrency, and usage patterns
- Support API-driven analytics and AI use cases
- Help enable dynamic SQL generation through Looker APIsCloud Migration
- Support the migration from customer-hosted Looker to Google-hosted Looker CoreDefine test plans and validation criteria
- Participate in proof-of-concept activities
- Identify and mitigate platform risks during migration
- Data Modernization
- Support query validation during Teradata-to-Snowflake modernization
- Validate Looker models and query behavior across data platforms
- Establish consistent performance and modeling standards
- Knowledge Transfer
- Create runbooks, documentation, and best practices
- Mentor internal engineering teams
- Help transition ongoing platform ownership to internal resources
Ideal Background:
- Enterprise Looker administration experience
- Strong LookML and BI platform knowledgeExperience with production support and platform troubleshooting
- Experience with Git/GitHub-based development workflows
- Understanding of identity and access management, particularly Azure ADExperience with Looker APIsStrong SQL and data modeling knowledgeExperience with Snowflake and/or Teradata
- Cloud migration experience is highly valuable
- Excellent documentation, communication, and knowledge-transfer skills
If you're a Looker professional who has worked beyond dashboards and reporting into platform administration, governance, APIs, and cloud modernization, this role offers an opportunity to work on a large enterprise BI environment.
GCS is acting as an Employment Business in relation to this vacancy.
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