| Location | Malvern, PA |
| Job Type | Contractor, Full-time |
Seeking a Senior Cognos Developer/Admin with strong SQL expertise and hands-on Cognos Administration experience. Responsible for developing enterprise reporting solutions while maintaining Cognos platform stability, security, and performance. Ideal candidate has experience in Cognos Development and Administration within large enterprise environments.
Key Responsibilities
Reporting & Development
Develop and maintain Cognos reports, dashboards, and Framework Manager models.
Create reusable, high-performance reporting solutions.
Build pixel-perfect, burst reports, drill-throughs, and dashboards.
Optimize report and query performance.
Develop and maintain metadata models, packages, and data layers.
Gather requirements and translate business needs into reporting solutions.
SQL & Data
Develop complex SQL queries, views, and stored procedures.
Perform query tuning and execution plan analysis.
Work with large enterprise datasets.
Design efficient reporting data models and determine optimal placement of business logic.
Cognos Administration
Administer Cognos Dev, QA, and Prod environments.
Manage security, LDAP/AD integration, roles, permissions, and data sources.
Monitor platform health, performance, scheduling, and report execution.
Support deployments, migrations, upgrades, and content store management.
Troubleshoot platform, security, and report-related issues.
Required Qualifications
Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field.
Strong expertise in ALL BELOW WITH Cognos Version 12 and Higher:Cognos Analytics
Framework Manager
Report Development & Dashboarding
Cognos Administration
Advanced SQL (Oracle, SQL Server, PostgreSQL, Redshift).
Experience with AWS environments.
Strong performance tuning and troubleshooting skills.
Experience supporting large-scale enterprise reporting platforms.
Preferred Qualifications
Financial Services / Asset Management experience.
Cognos migrations, upgrades, and deployments.
Power BI or Tableau exposure or AWS Quick Sight.- Nice to have
ETL/Data Integration knowledge.
Snowflake, Redshift, or cloud analytics experience.