Looker Architect

This master developer skill governs the lifecycle of building, refactoring, validating, and auditing enterprise-grade LookML projects. Built upon the architectural standards, design principles, and best practices used internally at Google to engineer official Looker Blocks, it empowers developers to build block-quality analytical applications. It enforces a strict separation of concerns, performance-first design, automated testing, and comprehensive documentation.

All LookML projects developed under this skill must be dialect-agnostic, schema-agnostic, and compatible with any database connection. They strictly adhere to the highest standards of LookML, Google Cloud best practices, and enterprise data governance guidelines.

1. Standard Project Structure

Every LookML project MUST follow this clean, modular directory structure to ensure maintainability, enable robust version control, and prevent compilation bloat: