What are the responsibilities and job description for the Senior Looker Developer position at EXL?
Job Description:
The Senior Looker Developer is an onshore technical lead embedded within EXL's analytics migration program at a major retail client. This person owns Looker & LookML development quality, drives migration of legacy BI reports into Looker, and serves as the primary technical bridge between client engineering standards and EXL's offshore development team. This is a hands-on delivery role requiring deep Looker expertise, strong data modeling instincts, and the ability to work directly with client data and IT teams to resolve data quality and access issues.
Key Responsibilities:
- Serve as the primary Looker standards resource for the EXL offshore team; build internal documentation, review checklists, and training materials
- Design, develop, and maintain LookML models, views, explores, and Looker dashboards to client coding and quality standards
- Architect scalable LookML structures that support cross-domain reporting across multiple business verticals
- Optimize Looker report and query performance- identify bottlenecks, tune PDTs, and improve dashboard load times
- Lead migration of legacy reports to Looker- own requirements analysis, LookML build, UAT support, and sign-off
- Partner with offshore Analysts to distribute and track migration workload against sprint deadlines, along with enforce standards and best practices before client-facing delivery
- Validate migrated reports against source data and business logic; document deviations and business owner approvals
Qualifications:
- 8 years of overall analytics/BI experience, with 5 years hands-on in Looker; LookML, dashboards, explores, and SQL queries
- Master's or bachelor's degree in mathematics, statistics, economics, computer engineering, or a related analytics field; strong academic record preferred
- Experience migrating from Tableau, MicroStrategy or other legacy BI platforms to Looker strongly preferred
- Hands-on experience with performance tuning and optimization of Looker reports and queries
- Experience with Google Cloud Platform (GCP) and BigQuery, or equivalent cloud data warehouse
- Ability to reformulate highly technical information into concise, understandable terms for presentations and business audiences
- Domain experience in Retail, Media, Aviation, or Sports analytics preferred
- Prior experience in analytics-based consulting preferred