Senior Looker Administrator
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 ID
Evaluate platform performance, concurrency, and usage patterns
Support API-driven analytics and AI use cases
Help enable dynamic SQL generation through Looker APIs
Cloud Migration
Support the migration from customer-hosted Looker to Google-hosted Looker Core
Define 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 knowledge
Experience with production support and platform troubleshooting
Experience with Git/GitHub-based development workflows
Understanding of identity and access management, particularly Azure AD
Experience with Looker APIs
Strong SQL and data modeling knowledge
Experience 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.
Senior Looker Administrator
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