IBM Cognos reports developer - BI Analytics (Cognos v12)
We are looking for an IBM Cognos reports developer, with design, development and support experience and skills. The applicant must have extensive experience in working in a business-facing support and development function.
This is a permanent position, based at head office in Watford, reporting to the business intelligence manager.

ESSENTIAL EXPERIENCE/SKILLS:

• bachelor’s degree, preferably in computer science, business, management information systems and/or related fields
• extensive experience in Cognos reports suite, using IBM Cognos BI Analytics (v12)
• metadata-modelling, using Cognos Framework Manager
• skills in advanced report-writing, dashboard development, adding data module, building story using the functionalities of Cognos BI Analytics
• automating, bursting, creating reports view and using Event Studio to trigger report-running and distribution
• performance-tuning for speed of reports’ delivery, troubleshooting and resolving issues
• security model using Active Directory, Kerberos and Cognos
• Cognos connection/portal, Cognos administration and content administration
• requirement-gathering with business users, writing functional and technical specification, gap analysis and proof-of-concept
• providing day-to-day support to the business and effectively managing support requests to meet business expectations
• working with third parties for application and software support
• unit-testing and facilitating SIT and UAT
• documenting development, testing and deployment tasks

TOOLS AND SKILLS:

IBM Cognos BI Analytics

• IBM Cognos BI Analytics (v12) reporting suites
• MS SQL Server 2018 and above for queries
• life cycle of reports’ development, using IBM Cognos BI Analytics
• BI methodologies, best practices on BI architecture
• Cognos Framework Manager and data module - metadata-modelling

(CQM and DQM)

• Report Studio - advanced report-writing
• dashboards and story development
• using machine learning and AI functionalities
• Event Studio - scheduling and triggers
• Cognos administration and security, using Active Directory and Cognos
• Cognos software upgrade processes
• cloud systems and tools for BI and business reporting

DESIRED SKILLS:

• some understanding of data warehouse and ETL processes using SSIS, OLAP and tabular cubes using SSAS
• using MDX and DAX for reporting off cubes as the source
• using DevOps for version control and deployment
• some understanding of master data services (MDS) for master data management

Please refer the Job description for details