Senior Looker Engineer
First seen by Alion on Sep 28, 2026.
Job Description :
Key Responsibilities :
- Design, develop, and maintain scalable Looker dashboards, reports, and analytical solutions.
- Develop and maintain LookML models, explores, views, dimensions, measures, and derived tables.
- Build robust and reusable semantic data models to support enterprise reporting and analytics.
- Write complex and optimized SQL queries for data analysis and reporting.
- Collaborate with data engineers and architects to understand data sources, pipelines, and data warehouse structures.
- Translate business requirements into effective Looker analytics solutions.
- Develop interactive dashboards and visualizations based on business and stakeholder requirements.
- Optimize Looker models, queries, dashboards, and explores for performance and scalability.
- Implement data access controls, user permissions, and security within Looker.
- Perform data validation and ensure accuracy, consistency, and reliability of reporting solutions.
- Troubleshoot dashboard, LookML, SQL, and data-related issues.
- Establish and maintain BI development standards, reusable components, and best practices.
- Support deployment and version control of Looker code using Git and CI/CD processes.
- Mentor junior Looker developers and provide technical guidance to BI and analytics teams.
- Prepare technical documentation for LookML models, dashboards, data sources, and reporting solutions.
Required Skills & Experience :
- Strong experience as a Looker Engineer / Looker Developer / BI Engineer.
- Hands-on expertise in Looker and LookML.
- Strong proficiency in SQL and experience working with complex queries.
- Strong understanding of data modeling, dimensional modeling, and data warehousing concepts.
- Experience developing Looker dashboards, Explores, Looks, reports, and visualizations.
- Experience with derived tables, persistent derived tables (PDTs), and LookML parameters.
- Strong understanding of BI and analytics development lifecycle.
- Experience working with cloud data warehouses such as BigQuery, Snowflake, Redshift, or Databricks.
- Experience with Git/version control and software development best practices.
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
- Excellent communication and stakeholder-management skills.
Skills
Looker, Dashboard Design, LookML, SQL, Data Modeling, Dimensional Modeling, Data Warehousing, Business Intelligence, BigQuery