Senior Looker Administrator - Looker SME
Job in
Newark, Essex County, New Jersey, 07175, USA
Listed on 2026-07-22
Listing for:
GCS Recruitment
Full Time
position Listed on 2026-07-22
Job specializations:
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IT/Tech
Job Description & How to Apply Below
Role Summary
We are seeking a Senior Looker Administrator (Looker SME) with deep expertise in enterprise-scale analytics environments. The ideal candidate will play a key role in stabilizing platform operations, supporting cloud migration initiatives, enabling API-driven AI use cases, and transferring knowledge to internal teams to build sustainable long-term capabilities. This role is critical to mitigating operational risk, delivery challenges, and platform instability during these transformations.
Key Responsibilities- Provide L3/L4 production support for Looker environments (Dev & Prod)
- Lead and validate platform upgrades, releases, and patching
- Manage and optimize LookML development lifecycle and Git Hub-based workflows
- Diagnose and resolve complex performance, query, and modeling issues
- Implement automated user provisioning and entitlement management
- Resolve access issues including azure AD group synchronization
- Establish and document governance frameworks and best practices
- Support and extend Looker APIs, including:
Inline Queries, Query , Admin APIs - Analyze and optimize performance, concurrency, and usage patterns
- Enable API-driven AI use cases, including dynamic SQL generation
- Define and execute test strategies for migration from customer-hosted to Google-hosted Looker
- Support POC execution with minimal business disruption
- Support Teradata to Snowflake migration validation via Looker
- 7+ years of experience in Analytics / BI Engineering
- 4+ years of hands-on Looker experience in enterprise environments
- Expert-level proficiency in:
- LookML development
- Looker Dev/Prod lifecycle management
- Git Hub-based CI/CD workflows
- Strong experience with Looker APIs (Inline Queries, SDKs, Admin APIs)
- Proven experience supporting platforms with 1,000+ users
- Solid understanding of identity and access management systems (Azure AD preferred)
Position Requirements
10+ Years
work experience
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