Strategic Looker & BigQuery Architect, Remote

Business Intelli Solutions; Plano (TX); Remote; USD 140,000 - 230,000; Full time

Job summary

Business Intelli Solutions is seeking a Forward Deployed Architect to act as a senior advisor and executive leader for Looker and governed-AI engagements. You will align business goals with modern data architecture, semantic structures, and adoption roadmaps, overseeing Looker and BigQuery deployments and ensuring readiness for conversational AI.

You will lead executive-level discussions, shape migration blueprints, and govern large-scale modernization programs across Fortune 500 clients.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
• 10+ years in data and analytics with enterprise BI and data platforms experience.
• Deep expertise in Looker and cloud data services (BigQuery, Dataform or dbt).
• Track record leading large-scale BI migrations and modernization programs at Fortune 500 organizations.
• Experience advising C-level and VP-level stakeholders with strong facilitation and presentation skills.

Responsibilities

• Advise CDOs, VPs of Analytics and data platform leaders, translating business goals into Looker and BigQuery architecture and adoption strategy.
• Lead discovery and planning sessions that produce migration and semantic-layer strategy blueprints and executive roadmaps for large organizations.
• Provide architectural governance across migration, CoE and team-acceleration engagements; review designs from Technical Architects and Forward Deployed Engineers.
• Reframe legacy BI estates as future-state conversational analytics on Looker using AI-assisted scope and decomposition analysis.
• Deliver executive presentations and progress reports that secure sponsorship and expand adoption.
• Surface product gaps and coordinate escalations with the platform vendor's support and engineering channels.

Skills

Executive advisory

Strategic leadership

Semantic modeling

Governance

Data architecture

Stakeholder management

Presentation skills

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field

Tools

Looker LookML

BigQuery

Dataform / dbt

Job description

Business Intelli Solutions is seeking a Forward Deployed Architect to act as a senior advisor and executive leader for Looker and governed-AI engagements. You will align business goals with modern data architecture, semantic structures, and adoption roadmaps, overseeing Looker and BigQuery deployments and ensuring readiness for conversational AI.

You will lead executive-level discussions, shape migration blueprints, and govern large-scale modernization programs across Fortune 500 clients.