Senior Looker Administrator
gcs recruitmentKing of Prussia, PA
Senior Looker Administrator
L6
gcs recruitmentKing of Prussia, PAyesterday
Occupations
Database AdministratorsData Warehousing SpecialistsNetwork and Computer Systems AdministratorsSenior 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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Level
LeadL6
Location
King of Prussia, PA
Occupation
Database Administrators
Industry
Software Publishers
Posted
yesterday
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