Analytics , IBM Cognos 8 BI
Reporting Tools , CognosDomainBusiness Intelligence
Wanted: Global Innovators To Help Us Build Tomorrow’s Enterprise
In the role of Technology Lead, you will interface with key stakeholders and apply your technical proficiency across different stages of the Software Development Life Cycle including Requirements Elicitation, Application Architecture definition and Design. You will play an important role in creating the high level design artifacts. You will also deliver high quality code deliverables for a module, lead validation for all types of testing and support activities related to implementation, transition and warranty. You will be part of a learning culture, where teamwork and collaboration are encouraged, excellence is rewarded, and diversity is respected and valued.
Location for this position is Atlanta, GA. This position will require relocation to other Client locations.
Qualifications
Basic
• Bachelor’s degree or foreign equivalent required from an accredited institution. Will also consider three years of progressive experience in the specialty in lieu of every year of education.
• At least 4 years of experience in IT industry.
Preferred
• Minimum of 4 years experience with authoring and administering Cognos BI environments.
• Excellent knowledge and hands-on experience with Cognos Framework Manager, Report Studio, Query Studio, Cognos Connection.
• Experience & awareness of nuances of migration from lower to higher version of Cognos.
• Proficient in SQL (Oracle and PL/SQL preferred) and clear understanding of relational database models.
• Strong ability to quickly learn and comprehend business processes and problems in order to effectively develop technical solutions to the requirements.
• Effective communication skills with both business and technical teams.
• Ability to work in a high paced, multiple vendor global environments.
• Excellent analytical, problem solving and debugging skills, with strong ability to quickly learn and comprehend business processes and problems in order to effectively develop technical solutions to their requirements
• Experience and desire to work in a Global delivery environment
• Strong understanding of Cognos BI architecture, request processing, servlets and services.
• Proficient in performance planning and installation options and configurations,
• Understanding of Cognos Application Firewall is setup and configured
• Experience in performing distributed installation and configuration of IBM Cognos BI
• Experience in securing the IBM Cognos BI Environment
• Understanding of Cognos BI security model
• Experiencing in defining authentication and authorization, identifying security policies
• Proficient in administering the IBM Cognos BI Server Environment
• Experience in monitoring system metrics, managing dispatchers and services
• Performance tuning of servers
• Setup audit controls, Identify issues while troubleshooting the server environment
• Formulate backup strategy
• Manage Run Activities, manage current, past, and upcoming run activities
• Add and manage a data source
• Distribute data and create a distribution list and contacts
• Deploy, maintain and manage content store including backup and restore
• Manage user profiles, roles
The job entails sitting as well as working at a computer for extended periods of time. Should be able to communicate by telephone, email or face to face. Travel may be required as per the job requirements.