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Amazon QuickSight Administrator & BI Analyst

Requirements
Core BI & QuickSight Skills
  • 2+ years in BI, analytics, or data operations.
  • 1+ year of hands-on Amazon QuickSight administration.
  • Experience handling permissions, namespaces, dashboards, and RLS.
  • Strong SQL across multiple relational databases.
  • Experience with data warehousing concepts and ETL processes.
Scripting & Automation
  • Proficiency with Python for automating QuickSight operations via Boto3.
  • Experience with AWS CLI, SDKs, and infrastructure scripting.
  • Ability to build reusable automation frameworks.
AWS Data Services Knowledge
  • Familiarity with Glue, Redshift, IAM, S3, and Kinesis.
  • Experience evaluating AWS architectures for scalability and cost efficiency.
  • Understanding of cloud security governance and compliance best practices.
General Skills
  • Strong problem-solving capabilities.
  • Excellent communication and stakeholder-management skills.
  • Ability to work independently within a distributed team.
  • Attention to detail in governance, permissions, and BI correctness.
Nice to Have
  • 5+ years of broader AWS experience.
  • Familiarity with Redshift data modelling.
  • Experience in enterprise payment, fintech, or high-security industries.
  • AWS Certification:
  • Solutions Architect
  • Data Analytics Speciality
  • SysOps Administrator
  • Experience building BI governance frameworks.
  • Experience with cost-optimisation strategies in AWS.

Responsibilities
QuickSight User & Access Administration
  • Manage QuickSight users, groups, namespaces, and roles (Reader/Author/Admin).
  • Provision and de-provision accounts in accordance with governance rules.
  • Enforce secure access controls, row-level security (RLS), and usage policies.
  • Maintain consistent permissions and enforce BI governance across teams.
Automation & Scripting
  • Automate BI administrative tasks using AWS CLI, SDKs, or Python Boto3:
  • User provisioning & permission updates
  • Dataset refresh automation
  • Scheduled reporting workflows
  • SPICE capacity monitoring
  • Develop repeatable, scalable processes for BI operations.
Dashboard & Reporting Development
  • Design, build, and maintain dashboards and analyses in QuickSight.
  • Collaborate with data engineers and business stakeholders to define requirements.
  • Transform raw datasets into governed, user-friendly BI models.
  • Ensure dashboards are accurate, performant, and aligned with business KPIs.
Performance Monitoring & Optimisation
  • Monitor dataset refreshes, usage metrics, error logs, and failure events.
  • Optimise SPICE usage, query performance, and dataset preparation.
  • Troubleshoot issues related to permissions, refresh schedules, or data quality.
Governance, Documentation & Support
  • Maintain documentation of datasets, lineage, transformations, and BI standards.
  • Establish governance frameworks for BI usage, dataset ownership, and versioning.
  • Provide training and best-practice guidance to business users and analysts.
AWS Architecture Advisory Responsibilities
(Integrated into the role — supports data modernisation initiative)
  • Review the feasibility and architecture of ingestion strategies using:
    AWS Kinesis, Glue ETL, Redshift, S3, IAM
  • Ensure security best practices, IAM policies, encryption, and logging compliance.
  • Evaluate performance and scalability of AWS compute & storage configurations.
  • Provide cost-optimisation recommendations for QuickSight, Redshift, SPICE, and data flows.
  • Ensure AWS-native architectural patterns are followed across BI and analytics workloads.
About the Project
A global payments company is undergoing a major data modernisation initiative to address several critical challenges affecting day-to-day operations and long-term scalability, including:
  • Production reporting overload
  • Missing governance and compliance controls
  • Fragmented ingestion and data flows
  • Lack of a scalable BI and analytics layer
The project aims to establish a secure, governed, AWS-native analytics foundation powered by QuickSight, Glue, Redshift, Kinesis, and S3.
Your role will be essential in enabling BI governance, user access control, dashboard automation, and AWS architecture advisory.
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Employment type
Full-time
Location
South America