Looker & Quicksight Admin

Skills: BI platforms including Power BI, Looker, Amazon Quicksight., Active Directory, Azure AD, and Ping Federate

Experience level: Mid-senior 
Experience required: 10 Years 
Education level: Bachelor’s degree 
Relocation assistance: No

Job Locations: Tampa FL or Dallas TX - Dallas is preference
Interviews: 2 rounds interviews- 1 round in person

This role is Contract to Hire!

Requirements

• Extensive experience with implementing and managing BI platforms for business intelligence, data applications, and embedded analytics.
• 10+ years of experience in managing BI platforms including Power BI, Looker, Amazon Quicksight.
• Experience in designing and delivering complex platform architectures.
• Extensive experience with Python programming, Shell Scripting, and PowerShell Scripting.
• Identify and implement various automation solutions using scripting.
• Have worked on various product APIs to automate Admin functions.
• Extensive knowledge and experience on setting up security using Active Directory, Azure AD, and Ping Federate.
• Have worked on configuring OAuth, SAML configurations for SSO implementation.
• Experience in defining SDLC processes and CI/CD processes using Jenkins.
• 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, and 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.
• Integrating Power BI with different tools, including but not limited to Splunk, Collibra, ServiceNow.
• 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.

Certifications

• Work closely with internal IT, Server, and Security teams to troubleshoot, including reviewing logs and resolving issues with production/non-production environments.
• Work independently and provide solutions to users.
• Manage Power BI Gateways to keep the dashboards and reports refreshed automatically.
• Build CI/CD pipeline to check in and migrate Power BI datasets/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 toolset.
• Setting standards and guidelines for BI development.
• Mentor other team members for knowledge transfer.