Cognos Developer

Role: Cognos Platform Architect

Location: Pennington, NJ / Charlotte, NC / Plano, TX (Onsite)

Duration: Full Time

Job Description:

Must Have Technical/Functional Skills

• This is for a position for Lead Cognos Platform Architect/Administrator to manage Cognos Analytics Enterprise shared environment on legacy and containerized environment.

• Role is responsible for designing go-live strategy, capacity planning, performance monitoring, diagnosing complex issues, performing complex upgrades, and carrying out deployments. This role would support platform which server 9 K + users

• Proven Experience with deploying Cognos Analytics on Openshift or Kubernetes (Red Hat OpenShift preferred)

• Experience with customization and versioning of Cognos container images

• Experience in Data Analysis, IBM Cognos development, Modelling , ETL concepts, SQL , Oracle , Containerization, Cube's Cognos Administration on V12

• Redhat/ OpenShift Certification and IBM Certified Administration V12x

• Experience using Cognos analytics APIs for Administration/Automation

• Advance understanding of Databases such as SQL server, Oracle, DB2 and PostgresSQL

• Familiar with monitoring/logging tools such as Openshift Monitoring, Splunk, Dynatrace

• Experience with tuning Cognos Performance within a containerized environment /high availability

• Experience connecting cognos Analytics to wide variety of files, relational and bigdata based data sources

• Self starter with innovative edge with strong communication

• Familiarity with Dynamic Cubes, Data Modules, Framework Manager and Report Server configuration

• Experience with CI/CD pipelines

• Knowledge of networking , TLS/SSL configuration , load balancing and reverse proxies

Roles & Responsibilities:

• As Cognos Analytics Architect, you will design, implement and oversee efficient operating strategy for Cognos Center of Excellence with focus on long term scalability collaborating with other architects.

• As IBM Cognos Analytics subject matter expert , you will advise /educate internal stakeholders about Cognos, Architecture blueprints and best practices.

• Identify areas of opportunities and create project plans to accomplish team objectives with team collaboration.

• Monitor/maintain/plan platform usage metrics using Python frameworks

• Automate Cognos Administration with Cognos APIs or Python

• Analyzing usage patterns and anticipate workload to plan capacity

• Assist and provide guidance to migrate reports from other platforms such as SSRS. Tableau, Cognos, MicroStrategy, Excel

• Mentor junior team members and Cognos Analytics developers

• Keep ab reast of recent changes in Cognos Analytics

• PMP Certification and proven experience with managing large infrastructure projects is desired.