Cognos Developer & Administrator

Trail Blazer Consulting LLC
Malvern, PA, United States
7 days ago

Role details

Contract type
Permanent contract
Employment type
Full-time (> 32 hours)
Experience level
Expert
Experience required
3 years minimum
Working hours
Regular working hours
Job source

Tech stack

Query Performance Amazon Web Services Data Analysis Business Logic Data Integration Extract Transform Load (ETL) IBM Cognos Business Intelligence Lightweight Directory Access Protocols (LDAP) PostgreSQL Microsoft SQL Server Oracle (Applications) Performance Tuning
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Query Optimization Power BI SQL Stored Procedures SQL Databases Tableau (Software) Freeform SQL Sql Optimization Snowflake Pixel Perfect Data Layers Information Technology Tools for Reporting Amazon Redshift

Job description

Seeking a Senior Cognos Developer/Admin with strong SQL expertise and hands-on Cognos Administration experience. Responsible for developing enterprise reporting solutions while maintaining Cognos platform stability, security, and performance. Ideal candidate has experience in Cognos Development and Administration within large enterprise environments.

Job Responsibilities

Key Responsibilities

Reporting & Development

  • Develop and maintain Cognos reports, dashboards, and Framework Manager models.

  • Create reusable, high-performance reporting solutions.

  • Build pixel-perfect, burst reports, drill-throughs, and dashboards.

  • Optimize report and query performance.

  • Develop and maintain metadata models, packages, and data layers.

  • Gather requirements and translate business needs into reporting solutions.

SQL & Data

  • Develop complex SQL queries, views, and stored procedures.

  • Perform query tuning and execution plan analysis.

  • Work with large enterprise datasets.

  • Design efficient reporting data models and determine optimal placement of business logic.

Cognos Administration

  • Administer Cognos Dev, QA, and Prod environments.

  • Manage security, LDAP/AD integration, roles, permissions, and data sources.

  • Monitor platform health, performance, scheduling, and report execution.

  • Support deployments, migrations, upgrades, and content store management.

  • Troubleshoot platform, security, and report-related issues.

Requirements

  • Bachelor’’s degree in Computer Science or related field.

  • Strong expertise in ALL BELOW WITH Cognos Version 12 and Higher:

o Cognos Analytics

o Framework Manager

o Report Development & Dashboarding

o Cognos Administration

  • Advanced SQL (Oracle, SQL Server, PostgreSQL, Redshift).

  • Experience with AWS environments.

  • Strong performance tuning and troubleshooting skills.

  • Experience supporting large-scale enterprise reporting platforms.

Preferred Qualifications

  • Financial Services / Asset Management experience.

  • Cognos migrations, upgrades, and deployments.

  • Power BI or Tableau exposure or AWS Quick Sight.- Nice to have

  • ETL/Data Integration knowledge.

  • Snowflake, Redshift, or cloud analytics experience.

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