GTRI - Cognos BI Developer

Engagement Type: Contract
Short Description:
Help support an environment using Cognos & other IBM products and to design, build & deliver BI solutions using Cognos Analytics 11. The developer will help track down and improve or eliminate bottlenecks in the BI reporting & ETL environment.
Complete Description:
The Georgia Technical Research Institute (GTRI) seeks a business intelligence developer to help support an environment using Cognos & other IBM products and to design, build & deliver BI solutions using Cognos Analytics 11. The developer will help track down and improve or eliminate bottlenecks in the BI reporting & ETL environment.
***US Citizen Only***
Candidates local to Atlanta strongly preferred
Impact & Influence: This position will interact on a consistent basis with: Other BI developers and analysts, project managers database administrators, customers and department management.
Key Responsibilities:

• Interpret user needs and design report format consistent with those needs.
• Identify and search databases and other sources as necessary to collect data required to produce reports.
• Organize source data in manner that facilitates data analysis and report production.
• Perform data analysis and produce reports.
• Confer with users regarding data needs.
• Perform other related duties as assigned.
• Support a business intelligence environment using Cognos & other IBM products
• Troubleshooting of report issues and performance issues that are critical
• Work with DBAs, report authors and system administrators to track down and improve or eliminate

bottlenecks in the BI reporting & ETL environment

• To design, build & deliver BI solutions using Cognos Anlytics 11.x
• Provide technical support to Cognos power users.

Specialized skills required for this job :

• 2+ years of Cognos Report development experience
• 1 year with the latest version Cognos Analytics 11.x
• 2-3 years of experience with Framework Manager.
• Proficient with writing Oracle sqls.
• Troubleshooting of report issues and performance issues.
• Experience with building Dashboards and familiar with other BI tools like Tableau, Power BI.
• 3 years experience w/ C++
• 3 years experience w/Java
• 2 years expereince w/Java

Required / Desired SkillsSkillRequired / DesiredAmountof ExperienceCognos Report development experience (2 years +)Required2YearsExperience with the latest version Cognos Analytics 11.xRequired1Years2-3 years of experience with Framework Manager.Required2YearsProficient with writing Oracle sqls.Required1YearsTroubleshooting of report issues and performance issues.Required2YearsExperience with building Dashboards and familiar with other BI tools like Tableau, Power BI.Required2Years3 years experience w/ C++Required3Years3 years experience w/JavaRequired3YearsProvide technical support to Cognos power users.Required2Years