Fwd: Cognos Business Intelligence Consultant

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Subject:	Cognos Business Intelligence Consultant
Date:	Fri, 3 Oct 2014 09:38:24 -0400
From:	Sandeep Jain <sandeep.jain@softwarepeople.us>
To:	'Anurag Tyagi' <anurag.tyagi@softwarepeople.us>

In person interview is needed directly with top 3 candidates.

 

Location: Dover, DE

Duration: 9+ months (37.k hrs/week)

Rate: Open

 

The primary responsibility is to develop reports, ensure the availability and facilitate the productive use of Cognos Business Intelligence system. 

•        Demonstrate expertise in development, support and use of I BM Cognos Business Intelligence Product Suite.

•        Responsible for Installing, upgrading and Maintaining Development, Test and Production Cognos environments.

•        Responsible for creating new or modifying existing Cognos Framework Models and packages in the framework manager.

•        Responsible for gathering and understanding business requirements.

•        Responsible for creating the Package, report, folder level security as per the business requirements.

•        Responsible to create/modify new query subjects, query items, filters, calculations etc. inside the package.

•        Responsible for creating/modify reports; (List reports, Prompt Reports, Charts, Drill Through reports, Dashboards,

·         Cross tab reports) based on business requirements.

·         Responsible for creating/modifying the Cognos Power play cubes using Power play Transformer as per the business requirements.

·         Responsible for scheduling reports on a daily, weekly or monthly basis as per user’s request and monitoring the automated reports for any failures.

•        Perform the deployment of Framework Models, Reports, Power play Cubes, Cube reports

·         Manage and maintain Cognos Authentication AD (Active Directory) that provides direct access for users to respective applications in all environments.

•        Deploying of reports and components from Development, Test to Production environments.

 226;        Perform administrative tasks, such as maintaining securities, user accounts, roles and groups.

•        Maintain Content store, Dispatcher, services, Tuning and Logging.

•        Debug and troubleshoot the application packages, reports and system configurations in case of any issues/failures.

•        Provide 24/7 Production support for critical report applications.

•        Engage in ongoing process improvement to achieve high quality services / products.

•        Provide status of work activities and projects to Team Lead.< /p>

•        Detailed functional and process knowledge.

•        Utilize deep modeling, design and PL/SQL coding skills.

•        Excellent client communication skills including customer service.

•        Candidate should be able to work in a team environment or independently.

•        Provide Detailed documentation on business requirements, system configuration, report design and definition.

 

Skills Needed:

Cognos Business Intelligence System 10                Required &nbs p;           3              Years

Advance query and report writing skills with cubes.         Required             3              Years

knowledge and principles of Oracle DB 11g or higher       Required             3              Years

Requirements gathering, documentation and communication skills.        Required             3      &nbs p;       Years

knowledge and principles of SQL Server 2010      Highly desired   3              Years

 

Thanks

Sandeep

 

Sandeep Jain

Software People Inc.

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sandeep.jain@softwarepeople.us

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