Looker Developer
Posted Today by Propellant Digital
Negotiable
Undetermined
Undetermined
London Area, United Kingdom
Summary: As a Looker Developer at Propellant Digital, you will focus on creating, maintaining, and optimizing Looker dashboards and data models to enhance transparency in fixed income markets. This role involves collaboration with cross-functional teams to transform data into actionable insights that inform business decisions. You will leverage your expertise in data analysis and visualization to support the company's mission of making financial markets more accessible. The position is ideal for those seeking a dynamic and collaborative work environment within the financial technology sector.
Key Responsibilities:
- Create and maintain highly insightful dashboards in Looker, ensuring they are user-friendly, efficient, and aligned with business goals.
- Build and maintain data models in Looker, applying LookML to enhance data structure, data flow, and overall data quality.
- Partner with product, sales, customer service, and engineering teams to understand data needs and translate them into technical requirements.
- Regularly monitor and refine dashboard performance to ensure rapid data retrieval and visual clarity.
- Develop documentation for reports, dashboards, and data processes, and provide training to team members on Looker functionalities and best practices.
- Maintain and enforce high data quality and integrity standards across all reports and analytics.
Key Skills:
- 5+ years in data analysis, with at least 2 years focused on Looker or similar BI tools.
- Technical Skills: SQL, and data modelling. Familiarity with Python or R and LookML are a plus.
- Experience with data warehousing concepts and tools (BigQuery, Snowflake, Redshift, etc.).
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with a deep understanding of data visualisation and BI best practices.
- Excellent communication skills, capable of explaining complex data concepts to non-technical stakeholders.
- A keen eye for detail and commitment to accuracy and data quality.
- Bachelor’s degree in a related field (Data Science, Computer Science, Statistics, etc.) or equivalent experience.
- Experience with ETL processes and data transformation tools.
- A background in in-depth analysis on fixed income markets, such as bonds and derivatives.
- Previous work generating valuation and reporting metrics, e.g. daily valuations of fixed income assets for market closes, ensuring data accuracy and timeliness.
- Familiarity with advanced Looker features, such as custom visualisations or embedding.
- Background in an industry with a high data-driven focus, like e-commerce, SaaS, or finance.
Salary (Rate): undetermined
City: London Area
Country: United Kingdom
Working Arrangements: undetermined
IR35 Status: undetermined
Seniority Level: undetermined
Industry: IT
About us: Propellant Digital (Propellant) is a leading technology provider in fixed income data analytics. We specialise in collecting, normalising, cleansing and aggregating data for effective, data-driven decisions. We have built a high-impact product portfolio in line with evolving markets, driven by our mission to make the financial markets more transparent and accessible. Our team combines deep expertise in finance and technology, with more than ten years of experience within major financial institutions. In just four years, we have gained rapid traction across the financial industry, and we are now focused on scaling operations and broadening our impact. At Propellant, every member has a voice, and daily interactions with our co-founders foster a collaborative and empowering culture. If you’re seeking a dynamic, less formal environment to apply your financial industry expertise, Propellant could be the perfect fit for you.
Role Summary: As a Looker Developer (contract) with a focus on financial content, you will manage the creation, maintenance, and optimisation of Looker dashboards, data models, and reports that enhance transparency around fixed income markets. This role requires close collaboration with cross-functional teams to transform data into actionable insights that drive key business decisions for our clients.
Why Work at Propellant? At Propellant, we offer the opportunity to work in a fast-paced, startup environment while leveraging your skills developed in the financial industry. We've found our product-market fit and truly believe in our product, now focusing on scaling our client base and adding features. With a small team, every member has a voice, and daily interactions with our co-founders foster a collaborative and empowering culture. If you're seeking a dynamic, less formal environment to apply your financial industry expertise, Propellant could be the perfect fit for you.
Please send your cv to careers@propellant.digital