Senior Cognos Developer - Cape Town: South Africa

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Job title:             Senior Cognos Developer/Administrator w/Project Manager
Reporting to:         Information Systems Manager
Salary:    Negotiable
Hours:    45 Hour Week
Location:    Cape Town
Start Date: ASAP

An exciting and challenging position with a major retailer.
Take over an existing, well built and extensive BI Server Solution.

You will be a team of one to begin with, managing all aspects of administration & configuration, authoring, support.
Working within a fast-paced environment, gathering requirements.
Managing development lifecycles and all communication to the business.

Be part of the decision making process for your own staff requirements, and advise the business on all aspects of the project, including integration with other systems

▌Responsibility 1 – Write complex reports using the various reporting studios available within Cognos BI following appropriate protocols for development specifications, quality assurance and release procedures.
   
▌Responsibility 2 – Create dimensional models (Cubes) to facilitate drill through & Slice and Dice reporting, and dashboard creation.
   
▌Responsibility 3 – Support Cognos end users, providing first line support for any system related issues. Communicating system status and outage information, in addition to official report releases

▌Responsibility 4 – Maintain a detailed catalog of all reports, and ensure content sync across packages where relevant.


Academic qualifications:

Essential:

Relevant professional qualification or equivalent work experience
Supplementary Cognos certification
   
Work experience & skills

Essential:

Hands on experience with Cognos BI authoring studios and total environment - Inclusive of deployment, tuning, logging, upgrades and security
Knowledge of BI/Data Warehouse concepts - DMR and DWH skills critical
Working knowledge of SQL Server (2008 and up)

Desirable:

Experience with Warehouse Management Systems
Knowledge of Warehousing, Logistics and Supply Chain fundamentals
Knowledge of Informix Databases

   
Please PM me for more information. Any questions and contact details.