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Cognos reports developer / 0 - Head Office, Watford

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IBM Cognos reports developer - BI Analytics (Cognos version 11)

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 (C11)
• 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 reports run 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, Content Administration
• requirement-gathering, 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
• unit-testing and facilitating SIT and UAT
• documenting development, testing and deployment tasks

• IBM Cognos BI Analytics (C11) reporting suites
• MS SQL Server 2016 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

• Report Studio - advanced report-writing
• dashboards and story development
• Event Studio - scheduling and triggers
• Cognos administration and security, using active directory and Cognos

• data warehouse and ETL processes
• MS SSIS - ETL
• MS SSAS - OLAP and tabular cubes
• business analysis skills
• version control and release management
• MDX and DAX
• TFS and DevOps for version control and deployment
• MDS for master data management

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