Technical Developer – Cognos

Due to tremendous growth our Global Business Intelligence Practice is in need of additional resources. This position is ideal for a skilled and creative Business Intelligence professional who can bring insight and expertise to a growing Global Practice.

Full-time/Permanent. Long Term Philadelphia with future travel to engagements.

The Technical Developer will be responsible for requirements gathering, analysis, design, development, testing and deployment activities for Cognos-related model or report enhancements. The Cognos Report Developer will also be required to coordinate with multiple teams from around the program, and with external client organizations.

Specific responsibilities include:

Deliver, maintain and troubleshoot, and enhance BI functionality and apply the toolset for Business Intelligence/Data Warehousing solutions.
Expert-level knowledge of Framework Manager and Report Studio is essential.
Experience in Performance Management Scorecard implementations (Cognos Metrics Manager)
Ability to develop of complex Cognos objects in support of strategic project initiatives.
Understanding configuration dependencies and interrelationships between Cognos and other data warehouse/business intelligence tools designs, and troubleshoots in the area with this knowledge.
Business process understanding and improvement.
Assists with defining alternatives based on best practices for Business Intelligence and Cognos toolset functionality.
Document designs, including data models and universe design, report design, and other design activities with the Cognos toolset.

Basic Qualification:

Strong background with IBM Cognos BI technologies on version 8.4 or higher on top of relational and ROLAP data sources with relational or DMR model objects.
Experience in design, implementation and support of Enterprise class

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