Looker Architect
Posted 3 days ago by 1756612844
Negotiable
Outside
Remote
USA
Summary: The Looker Architect role requires an experienced professional to lead the design and implementation of Looker architecture, ensuring best practices across projects. The candidate will be responsible for defining BI strategies, architecting scalable models, and collaborating with data engineering teams. Additionally, the role involves training, project scoping, and acting as a liaison between business stakeholders and technical teams. Strong expertise in LookML, SQL, and cloud data warehouses is essential for success in this position.
Key Responsibilities:
- Lead the Looker architecture design and best practices across projects, including training and project scoping.
- Define the enterprise-level BI and Looker strategy for UMG's data platform.
- Architect scalable LookML models, data layers, and semantic layers.
- Collaborate with data engineering teams to optimize data pipelines and schemas for Looker consumption.
- Review and enforce LookML coding standards, naming conventions, and folder structures.
- Guide developers in designing efficient dashboards and explore experiences.
- Set up and manage Looker's security model, including user access, groups, and row-level permissions.
- Lead efforts to migrate legacy BI platforms to Looker (if applicable).
- Evaluate and recommend third-party tools or custom plugins to extend Looker capabilities.
- Act as a liaison between business stakeholders and technical teams.
Key Skills:
- 5+ years of Looker architecture and development experience.
- Strong expertise in LookML, SQL, and cloud data warehouses (BigQuery preferred).
- Deep understanding of dimensional modeling, semantic layers, and BI governance.
- Experience working with large-scale datasets and optimizing Looker performance.
- Ability to design and lead BI projects end-to-end.
- Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills.
- Experience with CI/CD for LookML, Git, and deployment automation is a plus.
Salary (Rate): undetermined
City: undetermined
Country: USA
Working Arrangements: remote
IR35 Status: outside IR35
Seniority Level: undetermined
Industry: IT
- Lead the Looker architecture design and best practices across projects., Architect - has to be Also provide training , project scoping etc.(Must Have skills)
- Define the enterprise-level BI and Looker strategy for UMG's data platform.
- Architect scalable LookML models, data layers, and semantic layers.
- Collaborate with data engineering teams to optimize data pipelines and schemas for Looker consumption.
- Review and enforce LookML coding standards, naming conventions, and folder structures.
- Guide developers in designing efficient dashboards and explore experiences.
- Set up and manage Looker's security model, including user access, groups, and row-level permissions.
- Lead efforts to migrate legacy BI platforms to Looker (if applicable).
- Evaluate and recommend third-party tools or custom plugins to extend Looker capabilities.
- Act as a liaison between business stakeholders and technical teams.
- 5+ years of Looker architecture and development experience.
- Strong expertise in LookML, SQL, and cloud data warehouses (BigQuery preferred).
- Deep understanding of dimensional modeling, semantic layers, and BI governance.
- Experience working with large-scale datasets and optimizing Looker performance.
- Ability to design and lead BI projects end-to-end.
- Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills.
- Experience with CI/CD for LookML, Git, and deployment automation is a plus.