Cognos Developer – Banking recruitment
A fantastic opportunity for an Associate Cognos Developer has arisen to join a leading Investment Bank to provide Administration, Analysis, Design and implementation of a company-wide Business Intelligence Platform solution using Cognos.
The core responsibilities include:
Develop and unit test changes using Cognos and related technologies ensuring that the coding follows Bank standards and common patterns.
Develop against and support the improvements of development standards set by the team to ensure that the standards incorporate current best practices from the industry and the Bank ISSP rules.
Provide second and third line support to the operations and support teams in case of incidents so that the incidents can be investigated from a technical aspect and quicken the resolution of the incident.
Review other developer's designs, developments and unit tests to ensure that code is built to a consistent style and quality so that anyone in the team can support each other's code.
Key Skills and Experience
IBM Certified Administrator - Cognos 8 BI; IBM Certified Solution Expert - Cognos 8 BI; IBM Certified Designer - Cognos 8 BI Reports; IBM Certified Specialist - Cognos 8 BI; IBM Certified Developer - Cognos 8 BI Metadata Models
Previous experience in developing Cognos BI solutions on 3rd Party databases and OLTP systems;
Excellent understanding of Banking / Financial IT and its associated data flows;
Knowledge across the Cognos Product suite - Including Analysis Studio, Event Studio, Metric Studio, Query Studio, Report Studio, System Administration;
Fully understand the Cognos change release process;
Understands industry standard patterns in framework and reporting design and implementation; OLAP
The following would be high desirable: Enterprise Planning and Consolidation of data; Other BI Tools such as SSRS; Integration with other technologies, Blackberry, ETL technologies such as SSIS
