Cognos Developer

Job Description
• The Executive Office of Education has several new data warehouse initiatives underway and has a need for a Senior Cognos consultant to assist in the implementations.
• The candidate will work with the current Cognos applications and their future extensions that enable end-users to analyze a school’s performance at multiple levels.
• The candidate will work with other members of the Education Data Warehouse (EDW) team to resolve technical and data issues for the district users.
• The individual should be analytically oriented and be able to work as part of a small team.
• Cognos 10 is the standard BI tool. We plan to move to Cognos 11 in the future.

Responsibilities:
• Implement Cognos reports as defined by business users,
• Deliver, maintain, and troubleshoot as well as enhance BI functionality and apply the toolset for Business Intelligence / Data Warehouse solutions
• Performance tuning of Cognos reports
• Work with technical specifications and related documentation
• Data Warehouse and SQL knowledge (3-5 years of essential experience)
• Implementation of Cognos cubes
• Collaborates with business users and works well within a large team
• Develops, supports and implements Business Intelligence (BI) solutions, multi-dimensional cubes, and relational models as well as complex reports.
• Utilizes skills and business knowledge for the migration of applications to Dev, UAT and Production environment.
Required qualifications:
• 5+ years’ experience with all Cognos components and 1+ year as part of that with Cognos 10, including: Framework Manager and Report Studio
• Strong SQL skills
• BA/BS in Computer Science or related field.
• Must be organized and detail-oriented.
• Must have a team player attitude.
• Proven experience working effectively with Business and IT partners.
• Strong communication, both written and verbal.
• Participate in the development, testing, and implementation of efficient, cost effective reporting solutions.
• Designs, develops, tests, implements and supports reporting solutions and enhancements.
• Creates and maintains documentation to support the full software development lifecycle
• Mentors others in areas of expertise, including current technologies, systems, business practices, and standards.
• Evaluates business requirements and processes to provide possible solutions and accurate estimates for development efforts.
• Effectively communicates with business partners, peers and management.
• Shape and enhance the Cognos technical design and development process
Desired qualifications:
• Broad knowledge of IT systems, processes and controls
• Strong capabilities in analyzing data
• Public Education work experience
• Understanding of education data and/or terminology
• Understanding of Kimball methodology
• Experience with Cognos 11

Qualifications
• 5 + years’ experience with all Cognos components and 1+ year as part of that with Cognos 10, including: Framework Manager and Report Studio
• Strong SQL skills
• BA/BS in Computer Science or related field.
• Must be organized and detail-oriented.
• Must have a team player attitude.
• Proven experience working effectively with Business and IT partners.
• Strong communication, both written and verbal.
• Participate in the development, testing, and implementation of efficient, cost effective reporting solutions.
• Designs, develops, tests, implements and supports reporting solutions and enhancements.
• Creates and maintains documentation to support the full software development lifecycle
• Mentors others in areas of expertise, including current technologies, systems, business practices, and standards.
• Evaluates business requirements and processes to provide possible solutions and accurate estimates for development efforts.
• Effectively communicates with business partners, peers and management.
• Shape and enhance the Cognos technical design and development process

Additional Information
All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.