Lead Cognos Architect (Contract)

[NoahFSchultz]

Position:              Sr. Cognos Lead / Architect
Start Date:          Early/Mid October
Location:              North Chicago Suburbs
Contract:             4+ months, Extensions Likely

Project:
Client's team supports the financial/accounting business unites and require additional Cognos help for multiple projects that are coming up. Much of the development work is done offshore, so the candidate must have experience leading offshore teams. The resource will also need to have extensive experience working directly with finance business users to gather/refine requirements. Candidates must also demonstrate the ability to architect solutions with the Cognos platform, not just execute on existing designs.

-Must have 10+ years' experience with Cognos.
-Expert level with Reporting Studio and Framework Manager.
-Extensive interaction with business side who developed requirements.
-Will interact extensively with finance users.
-Experience working with and/or managing work with offshore teams
-Understand business processes, have aptitude, understanding, and comprehension of financial issues.
-Must have excellent skills in Data Warehousing using star schemas (type 1 and 2 dimensions).
-They are not just building reports off of a relational database.  They are building reports off of Data Warehouse and OLAP cubes.
-They are also sourced from cubes built in TM1.  TM1 skills a plus but not mandatory.
-Technical Environment: Cognos 8.4 (no plans to go to 10 at this time); Oracle and SQL Server; TM1

Projects:
1)     Performance improvement for existing reports
2)     Mending functional gaps
3)     Creating new dashboards
4)     Creating cubes, store detail level transactions


Noah Schultz
Recruiting Manager
Information Technology Consulting Services
Oxford & Associates
  a division of Oxford Global Resources
1515 E. Woodfield Road Suite 850
Schaumburg, IL 60173

847.619.0169 x 13 Office
noah_schultz@oxfordcorp.com