Senior IT - Cognos Administrator

Job Description:

The Advanced Analytics Cognos Administrator is responsible for the Installation configuration, administration, developer support, and on-call support of the reporting and analytical solutions for the business community. The Cognos Administrator is responsible for support and upgrade environments to Cognos v11 and for internal customer (reporting developers) facing activities of proposing solutions, and validating that these solutions meet the needs of the business. The Cognos Administrator must have strong technical, analytical and problem-solving skills. The team member will have exposure to tool administration, installation, configuration, code deployment, security administration, data analysis, querying and troubleshooting. The job entails working with all aspects of Cognos in a Data Warehouse and Operational Data Store environment interacting with business units and enabling groups.

Administrate the BI applications. Provide a stable production environment that meets performance needs and make adjustments as needed. Resolve production issues in a timely manner including on-call support as needed and maintain audit/security. Working with other internal and external resources, plan and manage BI system implementations and upgrades, license management, security, and future/additional product evaluations for the business intelligence applications as needed. Maintain and monitor all BI environments including development, test, production, and disaster recovery.