Looker & Quicksight Admin

StradITDallas, TX

About The Position

This role requires extensive experience in managing Business Intelligence (BI) platforms, with a strong focus on Looker and Amazon Quicksight, alongside Power BI. The position involves designing and delivering complex platform architectures, implementing automation solutions using scripting, and managing security configurations. A key aspect of this role is ensuring platform governance, resiliency, and integrating BI tools with various external components and systems. The ideal candidate will possess strong analytical and problem-solving skills, a passion for data, and the ability to lead complex projects in a fast-paced, client-facing environment.

Requirements

  • 10+ years of experience in managing BI platforms including Power BI, Looker, and Amazon Quicksight.
  • Experience in designing and delivering complex Platform architectures.
  • Extensive experience with Python programming, Shell Scripting, and Powershell Scripting.
  • Experience identifying and implementing various automation solutions using scripting.
  • Experience working on various product APIs to automate Admin functions.
  • Extensive knowledge and experience in setting up security using Active Directory, Azure AD, and Ping federate.
  • Experience configuring OAuth, SAML configurations for SSO implementation.
  • Experience in defining SDLC process and CICD process using Jenkins.
  • Experience integrating Looker with a Git repo for code commits.
  • Extensive knowledge and experience with platform governance and resiliency.
  • Power BI Service architecture design and administration including but not limited to Azure and Power BI Administration, PBI Premium Capacity Administration and extensive knowledge of Power BI Premium Service as a whole and how to troubleshoot and find opportunities for automation to streamline the day-to-day Operations of the platform.
  • Experience with Looker Setup and Administration.
  • Architect and develop data models, ETL packages, Reports utilizing Power BI applying best practices to the development lifecycle.
  • Data Modeling experience with Kimball method.
  • Experience with more than one database tool such as Snowflake, Oracle, DB2, SQL Server.
  • Understanding of various external components that BI tools depend on for successful connectivity, including understanding of Network, Firewall, Proxy etc.
  • Experience integrating Power BI with different tools which includes and not limited to Splunk, collibra, Service now.
  • Understanding of pre-requisites for a successful connection setup.
  • Strong ability to quickly propose solutions by recalling the latest best practices learned from MVP & Product Team articles, vendor documentation, whitepapers, and community publications.
  • A passion for understanding and integrating business semantics into technology solutions.
  • Ability to work in a fast-paced, dynamic, client-facing role where delivering solid work products to exceed high expectations is a measure of success.
  • Excellent communication, presentation, influencing, and reasoning skills.
  • Ability to lead complex projects.
  • Work closely with internal IT, Server, Security teams to troubleshoot including reviewing logs and resolve issues with production/non-production environments.
  • Work independently and provide solutions to users.
  • Manage Power BI Gateways to keep the dashboards and reports refresh automatically.
  • Build CI/CD pipeline to check in and migrate Power BI data sets/dashboards/reports between workspaces utilizing Power BI Rest APIs/Power Platform.
  • Build & Support Power BI platform metrics such as user tracking/logging, usage monitoring, anomalies detection in published data sets and reporting at an enterprise level using Power BI Platform.
  • Configure Power BI Tenant settings for PBI features such as (workspace settings, Export and sharing settings, Publish to web, Developer settings).
  • Manage Power BI Premium capacities for capacity planning and performance management.
  • Monitor premium capacities regularly to look for trends that indicate underlying issues.
  • Train self-service BI users and support the business in promoting self-service BI and the overall data platform through communications, collateral and training material.
  • Support BI production environment for large scale user base.
  • Available on call support for Production issues.
  • Provide leadership and vision for best usage and practices with regards to Cognos tool set.
  • Setting standards and guidelines for BI development.
  • Mentor other team members for knowledge transfer.

Nice To Haves

  • Certifications

Responsibilities

  • Manage BI platforms including Power BI, Looker, and Amazon Quicksight.
  • Design and deliver complex platform architectures.
  • Implement automation solutions using Python, Shell Scripting, and Powershell Scripting.
  • Automate Admin functions using product APIs.
  • Set up and manage security using Active Directory, Azure AD, and Ping federate.
  • Configure OAuth and SAML for SSO implementation.
  • Define SDLC and CI/CD processes using Jenkins.
  • Integrate Looker with Git repositories for code commits.
  • Ensure platform governance and resiliency.
  • Design and administer Power BI Service architecture, including Azure and Power BI Administration, PBI Premium Capacity Administration, and troubleshooting.
  • Set up and administer Looker.
  • Architect and develop data models, ETL packages, and reports using Power BI, applying best practices.
  • Perform data modeling using the Kimball method.
  • Work with multiple database tools such as Snowflake, Oracle, DB2, SQL Server.
  • Understand external components necessary for successful BI tool connectivity, including Network, Firewall, and Proxy.
  • Integrate Power BI with tools like Splunk, Collibra, and ServiceNow.
  • Understand prerequisites for successful connection setups.
  • Propose solutions by leveraging best practices from MVP & Product Team articles, vendor documentation, whitepapers, and community publications.
  • Integrate business semantics into technology solutions.
  • Work closely with internal IT, Server, and Security teams to troubleshoot and resolve issues in production/non-production environments.
  • Provide solutions to users independently.
  • Manage Power BI Gateways for automatic dashboard and report refreshes.
  • Build CI/CD pipelines for migrating Power BI datasets/dashboards/reports between workspaces using Power BI Rest APIs/Power Platform.
  • Build and support Power BI platform metrics such as user tracking/logging, usage monitoring, and anomaly detection.
  • Configure Power BI Tenant settings (workspace settings, export and sharing settings, publish to web, developer settings).
  • Manage Power BI Premium capacities for capacity planning and performance management.
  • Monitor premium capacities for underlying issues.
  • Train self-service BI users and support the business in promoting self-service BI and the overall data platform.
  • Support the BI production environment for a large user base.
  • Provide on-call support for Production issues.
  • Provide leadership and vision for best usage and practices with regards to Cognos toolset.
  • Set standards and guidelines for BI development.
  • Mentor other team members for knowledge transfer.
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