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Cognos Developer
Lexington, KY

Position Id
PPS3021

Last Updated
5/26/2010 9:38:41 AM

Salary: 80000 to 110000


Cognos Developer Role Description: This is a benefited, employee position for a client in Lexington, KY.  Our client has a long-term investment focus and is investing heavily for future growth.  This role is part of that strategy.


The Cognos developer will be a member of the Application Support & Development team. Many assignments will involve fairly complex technical design, often working with other developers and technical business users. Implementation tasks may be very significant in scope and/or part of large departmental projects. Frequent business analysis work will be done as part of spec and design development with users.  The individual will be responsible for a variety of software development tasks with very little direction from a Project Lead or Manager.  The ideal candidate for this role will be an individual that has demonstrated past implementation experience as a project/team lead and has an established favorable track record of being able to work well with the business community.


In addition to development contributions, the Cognos Developer has an opportunity to significantly impact efforts to create policy, procedures and the development environment for our reporting and framework staff. For example, peer mentoring, Visual Source Safe Administration, establishment of best practice standards and procedures.


Cognos Developer Responsibilities:


·         Complete current implementation of Cognos 8.0

·         Recommend/enforce the use of industry best practices

·         Experience with 3-tier project environment

·         Framework deployment strategies

·         Framework modeling

·         Metadata model development

·         Business presentation modeling

·         Setting proper joins/object relationships

·         Windows Development

·         Office Development / Integration (Excel / Access)

·         Oversee Cognos 8 design, deployment, maintenance, and usage, utilizing the skills of the team members to provide a stable and productive Cognos 8 environment

·         Work independently and with team members in knowledge sharing, brainstorming, and team building activities

·         Communicate with internal and external customers, supervisor and management, using clear, user-friendly terminology (email, phone, meetings)

·         Learn and adhere to department standards for design, development, and quality control.

·         Identify potential risks in projects, design, and coding, and produce resolutions to reduce the risks

·         Recognize improvement needs in existing processes /applications and present viable solutions to the team

·         Oversee department standard compliance of other team members

·         Self-manage time and task priorities to meet project timelines


Cognos Developer Experience/Skills Requirements:


·         BA/BS or equivalent work experience required

·         2+ year of experience of working with Cognos dashboards

·         5+ years of Business Intelligence reporting and Framework management in Cognos 8

·         3 + years experience in server administration

·         Able to install and configure Cognos 8 in a multi-tier secure web environment

·         Able to design and build relational and OLAP models for all Cognos 8 studios

·         Able to setup security, report schedules, and file structures

·         Proven leadership as a small project manager/technical lead in previous work experience

·         Able to handle multiple tasks and produce quality results

·         Able to design teaching material and give Cognos 8 instructions and lab work in a structured classroom environment

·         Ability to learn and adhere to department standards for design, development and quality control.

·         Ability to recognize the need for improvement in existing processes/applications, present solutions, and implementation plan to team with oversight of supervisor.


Solid Fundamentals in:

·         Cognos reporting, tools and techniques

·         Cognos 8 SDK/API functions in .Net

·         Code version management, preferably with Visual Source Safe

·         Complete administration of the Cognos 8 environment

·         Performance tuning reports and framework models


Also:

·         Visual Basic Development including .Net and VBA

·         Solid experience in Office (Excel) VBA Development


Preferred Experience/Skills:

·         Experience implementing Cognos

 

Additional Information


Benefits offered our client include:

·         Health Insurance

·         Paid vacation

·         Life Insurance

·         Long Term Disability

·         401k
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