AWS Quicksight Developer

AWS Quicksight Developer

Key Responsibilities:

• Work with business stakeholders to gather, understand, and document data visualization requirements.
• Design and develop scalable, interactive dashboards and reports using AWS QuickSight with SPICE optimization.
• Optimize performance and manage SPICE capacity through partitioning, scheduling, and incremental refresh strategies.
• Integrate QuickSight with AWS data sources (Redshift, Athena, RDS, S3) and other enterprise systems.
• Create and manage QuickSight assets: datasets, analyses, dashboards, themes, and templates.
• Implement row-level security (RLS) and manage access permissions and embedding where applicable.
• Work with AWS CLI or SDK for automation of QuickSight assets.
• Troubleshoot performance issues, refresh failures, or incorrect visualizations.
• Provide user training, demo sessions, and documentation for dashboards and KPIs.

Required Skills:

• Strong hands-on experience with AWS QuickSight.
• Proficient in SPICE dataset creation, optimization, and capacity management.
• Strong SQL skills to write and optimize queries across multiple databases (Redshift, Athena, RDS, etc.).
• Experience in creating custom calculated fields, filters, parameters, and controls in QuickSight.

• Use of custom actions, dynamic parameters, and advanced visualizations (maps, pivot tables, KPI tiles).
• Experience in embedding dashboards within internal/external portals or web applications.
• Knowledge of QuickSight APIs/SDK for automation and integration.
• Implementation of row-level security (RLS) and namespace-based multi-tenancy solutions.
• Handling incremental refresh and data ingestion strategies.

• Experience with AWS analytics architecture, including data pipelines, ETL tools (Glue/DBT), and data lakes.
• Understanding of how QuickSight fits into the broader AWS ecosystem (IAM, S3, Athena, Redshift, Lambda, etc.).
• Familiarity with data modeling, semantic layers, and performance optimization techniques.

• Excellent communication skills with ability to interface directly with business users, product managers, and analysts.
• Experience translating business KPIs into measurable metrics and impactful visualizations.
• Agile/scrum experience for iterative development and demo cycles.