Cognos Specialist/Architect Needed

[JKallen]

Job Title:
Cognos Specialist

Job Purpose/Role:

Building a state of the art Performance Management and Business Intelligence Platform is one of the company's key strategic objectives for 2010 and the following years. We are seeking an expert Cognos developer with a proven track record illustrating creative problem solving and out-of-the-box thinking, to fill our Lead Cognos Specialist Role.  This important role will be responsible for thought & design leadership including: guiding data modeling that supports our BI platform, best practice Framework Manager and Transformer designs that derive maximum scalability, maximum flexibility, with minimal maintenance effort, and best-in-class report authoring.

Your contribution will be integral to our success at deploying a scalable, consistent, intuitive reporting environment serving as the single source of Business Intelligence information for Allianz Fireman's Fund Insurance Company.

You will be responsible for assessing the current Cognos semantic and presentation layer designs and the supporting data model, and providing any recommendations that will improve the overall design.  In addition as we continue to add data sources and subject areas to our Business Intelligence Hub, you will be responsible for ensuring best-in-class design and implementation that will yield maximum value and use with minimal cost and maintenance.

Additionally, you will be responsible for understanding Fireman's Fund business, being able to interact with and leverage existing relationships with our business partners as well as develop new strategic relationships throughout the organization.


Experience/CV:

Required:
BA/BS Required.
Cognos certification required.
3 to 5 years Cognos Framework Manager, Transformer, Query, Analysis & Report Studios each.
1 to 3 years Data Modeling experience.
Significant experience working with business users; consumers of Cognos reports.
A strong focus on customer service is essential.
Strong presentation skills are required.

Plus:
1 to 2 years Metric Studio and Dashboard Studio experience a plus.
Cognos developer with P&C insurance experience a plus.
Go Mobile experience (or other third party hand held technologies that interface with Cognos).
Experience with web service integration for use with flash (.swf)

Contact:

Jeremy Kallen
Director, BI Solutions

Enterprise Business Intelligence
Fireman's Fund Insurance Company
Work:    415.899.2977 (22.2977)
Fax:    415.899.4737