Cognos Developer

• The Executive Office of Education has several new data warehouse initiatives underway and has a need for a Senior Cognos consultant to assist in the implementations.

• The candidate will work with the current Cognos applications and their future extensions that enable end-users to analyze a school’s performance at multiple levels.

• The candidate will work with other members of the Education Data Warehouse (EDW) team to resolve technical and data issues for the district users.

• The individual should be analytically oriented and be able to work as part of a small team.

• Cognos 10 is the standard BI tool. We plan to move to Cognos 11 in the future.

Responsibilities:

• Implement Cognos reports as defined by business users,

• Deliver, maintain, and troubleshoot as well as enhance BI functionality and apply the toolset for Business Intelligence / Data Warehouse solutions

• Performance tuning of Cognos reports

• Work with technical specifications and related documentation

• Data Warehouse and SQL knowledge (3-5 years of essential experience)

• Implementation of Cognos cubes

• Collaborates with business users and works well within a large team

• Develops, supports and implements Business Intelligence (BI) solutions, multi-dimensional cubes, and relational models as well as complex reports.

• Utilizes skills and business knowledge for the migration of applications to Dev, UAT and Production environment.

Required qualifications:

• 5+ years’ experience with all Cognos components and 1+ year as part of that with Cognos 10, including: Framework Manager and Report Studio

• Strong SQL skills

• BA/BS in Computer Science or related field.

• Must be organized and detail-oriented.

• Must have a team player attitude.

• Proven experience working effectively with Business and IT partners.

• Strong communication, both written and verbal.

• Participate in the development, testing, and implementation of efficient, cost effective reporting solutions.

• Designs, develops, tests, implements and supports reporting solutions and enhancements.

• Creates and maintains documentation to support the full software development lifecycle

• Mentors others in areas of expertise, including current technologies, systems, business practices, and standards.

• Evaluates business requirements and processes to provide possible solutions and accurate estimates for development efforts.

• Effectively communicates with business partners, peers and management.

• Shape and enhance the Cognos technical design and development process

Desired qualifications:

• Broad knowledge of IT systems, processes and controls

• Strong capabilities in analyzing data

• Public Education work experience

• Understanding of education data and/or terminology

• Understanding of Kimball methodology

• Experience with Cognos 11

• 5 + years’ experience with all Cognos components and 1+ year as part of that with Cognos 10, including: Framework Manager and Report Studio

• Strong SQL skills

• BA/BS in Computer Science or related field.

• Must be organized and detail-oriented.

• Must have a team player attitude.

• Proven experience working effectively with Business and IT partners.

• Strong communication, both written and verbal.

• Participate in the development, testing, and implementation of efficient, cost effective reporting solutions.

• Designs, develops, tests, implements and supports reporting solutions and enhancements.

• Creates and maintains documentation to support the full software development lifecycle

• Mentors others in areas of expertise, including current technologies, systems, business practices, and standards.

• Evaluates business requirements and processes to provide possible solutions and accurate estimates for development efforts.

• Effectively communicates with business partners, peers and management.

• Shape and enhance the Cognos technical design and development process

All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.