Looker SME - Contract W2 position

Job Title: Looker SME

Location: Remote

Duration: 6 Month s Contract

Job Description:
Seeking a Senior Looker SME to lead enterprise BI modernization initiatives, define semantic modeling standards, architect scalable analytics platforms, and drive Cognos/Tableau/Power BI migrations to Looker on Google Cloud.

Responsibilities:

Lead enterprise Looker architecture, governance, and implementation programs.

Design and manage LookML semantic models, Explores, views, and reusable analytics assets.

Define enterprise semantic layer and metric governance standards.

Architect BigQuery-based analytics solutions optimized for Looker consumption.

Drive dashboard modernization and reporting transformation programs.

Collaborate with Data Engineering teams on dimensional modeling and data warehouse design.

Establish best practices for performance tuning, metadata management, and security.

Lead customer workshops, solution reviews, and executive presentations.

Mentor Looker developers and BI engineers.

Skills:

Expert-level Looker and LookML experience.

Deep understanding of Looker Semantic Layer architecture.

Strong expertise in BigQuery.

Metadata modeling and enterprise data modeling.

Dashboard and self-service analytics design.

Performance tuning of LookML models and BigQuery queries.

Row-level security and governance implementation.

Experience migrating Cognos, Tableau, Business Objects, or Power BI to Looker.

Strong SQL expertise.