Senior Business Intelligence Developer (Cognos)

Job Description: Position requires extensive experience in Business Intelligence with proven skills in working with peers, Subject Matter Experts and the business to help develop the appropriate solutions to empower the business. As a BI Team lead you have advanced Cognos Development skills with expertise/exposure to Tableau or similar tools. You will be responsible for the design, development, and implementation of Business Intelligence (BI) Solutions.Responsibilities:Qualifications:

• Collaborate with cross functional teams to gather and document BI requirements
• Analyze BI requirements and design/develop Cognos Reporting solutions to support standard reporting, Dashboard and self-service environment.
• Will be the primary contact for questions about existing reports and Dashboards
• Performance tuning to ensure reports function within acceptable parameters
• Collaborate with stakeholders to define the business layer and presentation layer of the BI Model that is business friendly and supports a self-service environment.
• Analyze requirements and architect appropriate solutions, with detailed design documents
• Review the current architecture and recommend changes as appropriate
• Ensure documentation is up to date

Education: Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or equivalent experience requiredExperience:

• Bachelor's degree with at least eight years of IS experience. Most recent experience must be Business Intelligence focused with at least five years of hands on experience in dashboard and report development using Cognos.
• Strong communication skills, with prior experience in requirements gathering and working with SMEs and Stakeholders at various leadership levels.
• Proficiency with Cognos BI (Preferably 10.2.2) Product Suite (Report Studio, Analysis Studio, Query Studio, Framework Manager, Transformer, workspace advanced)
• Hands on Framework Manager Dimensional Modeling, Transformer cube, Design and Development
• Hands on Dashboard, and report development experience
• Proven experience in scripting (Java Scripting/JQuery) to extend Cognos Capabilities
• Excellent performance tuning and trouble shooting skills
• Effective verbal, written and interpersonal communication
• Strong grasp of relational Database principles, OLTP, OLAP, 3NF, Star-Schema
• Demonstrable experience in Dashboards, KPI, Scorecards, mobile, Operational and Business Intelligence Prior experience in leading a BI Team

Preferred:

• Advanced query writing skills would be a strong plus
• Prior experience working with data sourced from JD Edwards
• Understanding of SOX and Project management principles and concepts
• Rapid prototyping and agile methodology
• Cognos Administration experience/familiarity
• Expertise in Tableau or similar visualization tools