Cognos Developer Job in Nashville 37203, Tennessee US
Description:
Sr. Cognos BI Developer
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Volt Workforce Solutions is one of the top 5 IT Recruiting Firm's in the country, providing opportunities to work with some of Tennessee's leading employers. Volt is currently assisting with the recruiting for a Sr Cognos Developer to join our client's ongoing project.
Client is in the process of a migration from Cognos 7 to 8 and are in need of an individual to join the team to offer change support (modifications, reporting, may offer some development relief as well as mentor junior team members). The candidate selected for this role will be required to work onsite in Nashville, TN.
- Involved in entire project lifecycle from evaluation, installation and development of end user reports.
- Familiarity with complete migration process from Cognos Series 7 to Cognos 8.X
- Resolve development and support issues of moderate/high complexity or risk.
- Establishes and enforces data warehousing standards at the client site to meet client requirements and business needs.
- Interface with the ETL lead and Data Modelers to architect and design the reporting / dashboard framework. Create business objects universe design specs. Improve the universe performance using pre - calculated aggregates and aggregate awareness.
- Review reports and dashboards creating KT documentation for reports and the dashboards.
- Enhance data warehouse data model and implement database changes to support reports for business process visibility and efficiency reporting.
- Analyze, design, build, test and deploy ETL mapping required for business process visibility and efficiency reporting.
- Update user / training manual for new reports, enhancements and data areas.
- Evaluates existing subject areas stored in the data warehouse and determines where data should be stored.
- Assists in several components of the overall architecture of the data warehouse system.
- Documents tasks for end-user, technical, and managerial review to ensure high quality customer service.
- Provides descriptive analyses of customer, product, and market trends and identifies and resolves data issues.
- Performs quality assurance testing of data integration and report development. Monitors data load operations to ensure accuracy.
- Assists and/or provides limited direction to lower level technical personnel
Requirements:
- 3 - 5 years experience implementing enterprise-scale reporting systems using COGNOS suite of BI tools,
- Review functional requirements and technical specifications and document them as needed.
- Expertise with Cognos Series 8 and 10, Framework Manager modeling, Report Studio, Query Studio, Analysis Studio.
- Perform data modeling and query tuning in Framework Manager and Report Studio to achieve maximum performance while retrieving data from multiple data sources.
- Develop complex Report Studio reports involving drill up, drill down and master/detail queries.
- Create Scorecard as well as Dashboard reports for the company executives.
- Create/Modify cubes using Transformer from Series 7 and 8 from multiple data sources and publish them on to the Cognos Portal
- Migrate reports/cubes from Cognos Series 7 to Cognos BI 8.x
- Provide production support and train end users in Cognos Series 7 and Cognos 8
- Possess excellent verbal and written communication skills.
- Strong database understanding, SQL optimization skills and OLAP tools. (preferred)
- Excellent communication skills in both writing and speaking.
DESIRED/PREFERRED SKILLS:
- Cognos 8 migration and development experience
- Cognos 8 to 10 migration experience
- Knowledge of one or more ETL tools such as Informatica or DataStage, with DataStage preferred.
Volt is an Equal Opportunity Employer
Location: Nashville, TN
Type: CONTRACT
Duration: 120 - 180 Days
Pay Rate: $60.00 - $75.00 Hourly DOE
Contact:
Volt Technical Resources
Volt Workforce Solutions
15 Century Blvd., Ste. 100
Nashville, TN 37214
PH: 615/882-9222
FX: 615/882-9334