* * *POSITION:* Cognos Consultant
*TYPE:* 6+ month contract *LOCATION:* Tampa, Florida * * * * *DESCRIPTION: * * * *RESPONSIBILITIES:* *· Participate in the evaluation of new projects to determine scope, feasibility, timelines, impacts to and integrations with existing systems.* *· Participate in the design, development, integration, maintenance and security of the Cognos metadata layer.* *· Document and follow best practices, standards, processes and procedures of Cognos BI solutions.* *· Interface with business users in order to help identify, document, clarify and/or review requirements.* *· Consult with non-technical business users, business professionals, technical and executive staff to elicit input, capture feedback and provide assistance with the BI solutions.* *· Create BI solutions that access various data sources including data warehouses, data marts, cubes, and relational databases and data warehouse appliances.* *· Provide insight and direction about BI presentation approaches.* *· Extend the base functionality of the Cognos platform through SDK development.* *· Create metadata models that are aligned with BI strategies, organizational goals and objectives.* *· Perform modeling of relational, dimensional and dimensionally modeled relational models and provide assistance and mentoring to junior team members.* *· Assist in the creation, maintenance and documentation of Cognos security model including authentication, object and data level security.* *· Extend report functionality and presentation using JavaScript* *· Review report requirements and make modifications to existing reports, dashboards and metadata.* *· Evaluate report, model and query performance making necessary model and/orcode changes to meet SLAs.* * * *EXPERIENCE:* *· Expert level, 5+ years of experience in Cognos Business Intelligence (through v10), Framework Manager, Security and Report Studio* *· Advanced level, 5+ years of experience in SQL* *· Advanced level, 2+ years of experience in Cognos GoMobile and GoOffice and in Financial Service background* *· Intermediate level, 2+ years of experience in Cognos SDK Development, Microsoft Analysis Services Cubes, SQL Server RDBMS tool suite, Data Warehouse Architecture, .Net Development* *· Intermediate level, “Nice to Have“ experience in MicrosoftDTS, SSIS and SSRS and Netezza Integration* * * *QUALIFICATIONS:* *· At least 5-6 Years of experience with Cognos 8.4/10.1Business Intelligence and/or Cognos performance management as a developer and architect.* *· B.S. degree in Computer Science or Engineering or equivalent experience* *· Must have hands-on technology experience in Business intelligence and Data Warehousing* *· Must have 5 years of hands-on experience in software application development.* *· Strong problem solving, communication (verbal and written)and analytical skills.* *· Experience with relational and dimensional data.* *· Experience with data mapping and dimensional data modeling techniques* *· Strong background in SQL Server, Analysis Services, Oracle* *· Working Knowledge of .Net, Java or other external applications interacting with Cognos BI and dimensional data via the CognosSDK.* *· Cognos BI Professional Author or Application Developer Certifications is highly preferred.* *· Development Life-cycles & Methodologies (Agile)* *· Process & Procedures (Best Practices, O&M, etc.)* *· Migration/Replacement experience* *· Financial Planning & Forecasting* *· Defined and/or delivered advanced/mature BI solutions* *· External participation/exposure to newer BI trends (i.e. data visualization, Collaborative BI, big data, etc.)* *· .Net, web development and JavaScript experience* *· SSRS or Crystal Report experience is a plus* *· Netezza experience is a plus* -- *Thanks&Regards Deep Technical Recruiter Email: deep.citro...@gmail.com Tel: 972-479-5323 Ext:201 CITRON IT**** YM: * <splash.sa...@yahoo.com>*deep.citro...@yahoomail.com* -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Oracle-Projects" group. To post to this group, send email to oracle-projects@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to oracle-projects+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/oracle-projects?hl=en.
