Cognos BI Developer in RTP, NC

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1+ years experience with cognos, see details below
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•Under the guidance of the BI and Data Architects, designs and develops BI solutions, including but not limited to, cubes, reports, dashboards, metrics and queries, leveraging customer information demand with back-end data warehouse capabilities
•Maintains and updates the Cognos framework models, in adherence with best practices
•Provides Tier 3 support to the user community in the use of business intelligence tools and enterprise data
•Designs, validates and troubleshoots standard financial reporting and analytic systems.
•Maintains knowledge of general ledger, payroll, budgeting, month end, reconciliation, account consolidation and corporate reporting data and processes.
•Maintains knowledge of the data warehouse structure and components
•Administers multiple Cognos environments and manages migration of components from one environment to the other
•Monitors systems availability, performance and capacity, identifying areas for improvement and tuning as needed
•Manages and documents system security.
•Creates and maintains system documentation including report, cube and end user documents.
•Participates in the planning and execution of all Cognos system upgrades, fix packs and patches
•Serves as technical point of contact for all issues escalated to vendors (IBM or BSP)
•Develops, maintains, communicates and monitors adherence to best practices for report coding disciplines, naming conventions, folder organization, etc.
•Develops baseline performance and tracks ongoing trends such as system availability and response time.
•Communicates status to impacted stakeholders—including end users, ITS support staff, and ITS management—before, during, and after the installation or problem resolution as appropriate and in accordance with SOPs. 
Qualifications 
•Bachelor's degree and 2 years' related experience; or equivalent combination of education and experience.
•2+ years hands on experience with the following Cognos 8.x tools:
  o Report Studio (IBM certification preferred)
  o Transformer
  o Framework Manager
  o Analysis Studio
  o Event Studio
  o Metric Studio
  o Cognos Analysis for Excel (nice to have)
•Dashboard development experience and knowledge of best practices/principals
•Excellent understanding of and experience with dimensional data models and OLAP
•Experience with SQL 2005/2008
•Knowledge and experience in full lifecycle development and deployment of BI reporting solutions
•Knowledge of Cognos architecture and experience with Cognos Administration
•Experience with Cognos TM1 Architect/Perspectives (preferred)
•Experience with VBA or other programming languages (preferred)
•Experience with Cognos SDK, specifically Cognos Mashup (preferred) 
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