Cognos Sr Developer, FT position

[hkaplin]

Our Client is a leader in transforming the business side of healthcare with their web based tools for practitioners in the industry. With their continued growth they are currently looking for a Senior Cognos Developer.

The ideal candidate will work with the existing DB2 data warehouse staff and other teams to support the implementation, use and design of the Cognos reporting infrastructure. They will use their Cognos knowledge and experience to assist the Client and its customers in the areas of data mining, analysis and reporting to improve business processes, activities and performance. The Cognos Senior Developer will be responsible for creating and maintaining various Cognos reporting environments in support of internal and external business requirements.

The following are the duties and requirements:

DUTIES & RESPONSIBILITIES:
Design and implement scalable Cognos 8 architecture to meet current and future needs

Engineer Cognos Framework Manager models and packages

Prepare and review technical and logical design and artifacts

Responsible for developing, implementing Analytics and Reporting deliverables with multiple report pages, prompts, calculations, nested queries, nested objects, and variables working with applications and data

Develop Cognos related process flows and methodology to support both internal and external use of the Cognos

Evaluate, install and implement Cognos Series solutions for entire enterprise

Roll-out and train internal staff on the use of Cognos to support Analytics and Reporting

Install and configure Cognos software for clients and server

Perform detailed analysis of organizations current Cognos related requirements

Develop detailed architecture documentation and make recommendations to senior management addressing the use of Cognos to meet our ever growing BI requirements


REQUIRED SKILLS:
Minimum of 5 years experience in working with Cognos Framework Manager, creating and maintaining packages, design and maintenance of the meta-model and developing reports

Experience with planning, estimating and coordinating report development activities

Experience in leading and working as part of Cognos development teams

Train junior developers to develop Cognos related deliverables

Ability to transform business requirements into Cognos enabled reports, dashboards and use of both drill down and drill through alternatives

Experience with design of business intelligence application solutions using relational database design ( i.e. STAR and/or SNOWFLAKE Schemas), and ETL tools

Analyze Cognos new releases and provide recommendations for upgrades

Strong verbal and written communications

Strong organizational skills

Can-do attitude

Ability to work self-directed

Systems Analysis background

For more information and to be considered for this opportunity, please use the following contact information:

Howard Kaplin, Senior Business Manager, Teknetex
howard.kaplin@teknetex.com
615-750-3425 ext 108

[cognostechie]

What's the location ??

[NaviGator]

Yes, where is the location of that job post ?

[CognosPaul]

I'm assuming it's somewhere around Nashville TN. You should also include a note indicating whether the potential employee needs to be on site, or can remote in.