Senior Looker Platform Engineer

GCS Recruitment; King of Prussia (PA); On-site; USD 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

GCS Recruitment seeks a Senior Looker Administrator to operate, modernize, and migrate an enterprise Looker environment. You will serve as a senior technical resource for platform reliability, governance, integrations, and advanced Looker capabilities.

Ideal candidates bring enterprise Looker administration expertise, strong LookML and SQL skills, and experience with Snowflake/Teradata, cloud migrations, and API usage. This role offers a path to shape data architecture in a large BI ecosystem.

Qualifications

• 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.

Responsibilities

• Looker Platform Administration: Provide advanced L3/L4 support across Looker Development and Production environments.
• Security & Governance: Develop scripted processes for user provisioning and entitlement management.
• Looker APIs & Advanced Capabilities: Support Looker APIs, including Admin APIs, Inline Queries, and Query ID.
• Cloud Migration: Support migration from customer-hosted Looker to Google-hosted Looker Core.
• Data Modernization: Validate Looker models and query behavior across data platforms.
• Knowledge Transfer: Create runbooks and mentor internal engineering teams.

Skills

Looker administration

LookML

SQL

Data modeling

Git/GitHub workflows

Azure AD

APIs (Looker)

Cloud migration

Tools

GitHub

Snowflake

Teradata

Azure AD

Job description

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.