Cognos Developer

Summary:

The primary role for the Cognos Developer is to design, develop, and implement various enterprise reporting solutions. The individual will primarily manage and support the Cognos BI environment. The successful candidate must possess hands-on, significant working knowledge of the IBM Cognos Analytics suite of components, especially Report Studio and Framework Manager. Success in this role depends on strong technical, creative and analytical skills, as well as excellent communications in order to codify customer requirements and develop outstanding solutions.

As part of the BI team, the candidate will generate reports as outlined as part of a project or per ad hoc user requests using Cognos. The individual codes, tests, debugs, and installs operating programs and procedures in coordination with our BI Team.

Primary responsibilities include:

• Maintain and enhance the Cognos Framework Models that are used to support all of the Cognos Content delivered to our end users.
• Responsible for developing and maintaining business report requests, dashboards, and dashboard widgets.

• Develop complex Cognos reports with an emphasis on accuracy and timely delivery.
• Partner with the Database Administrator, Cognos Administrator and IS support to assist in the verification and validation of reports and data.

• Work with users from a variety of business area’s in identifying and developing reports. Heavy emphasis placed on delivering results, working well across business and technical teams.
• Create and participate in user Training and Documentation.
• Must be able to Self-manage and multi task consistently in order to prioritize the workload.
• Document programming problems and resolutions for future reference.
• Provide training, support and best practices for Ad Hoc query users, Business Author and Professional Author.
• May require evening and weekend work in response to needs of the systems being supported.

Job Requirements:

• 5+ year experience developing/designing Business Intelligence solutions (at least 3 of which on the IBM Cognos platform).
• Bachelor’s or Master’s Degree in MIS, Computer Science, Statistics, Finance, or related field

• A strong background in Manufacturing and ERP systems
• In-depth knowledge of Cognos Analytic tools, including but not limited to, Framework Manager, Report Studio, Event Studio and Analysis Studio
• Expert-level knowledge of SQL, stored procedures, views, and triggers  
• Experience with performance tuning
• Experience with effective Data Visualization principles
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Ability to liaise with Business and IT leadership on a regular basis
• Ability to collaborate with (internal) customers to understand business requirements and translate those into actionable plans
• Proven experience in prioritizing and delegating work to meet deadline objectives and quality metrics
• Experience in promoting Self Service BI across organizations
• Experience in creating dashboards, scorecards, and reports throughout the development cycle