COGNOS Architect (Specialist 3)

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Company Expinfo, Inc.
Location Bangalore
Channel Database
Date May 29, 2008
Employment Permanent
Salary Benefits: The most basic plan that all employees are offered includes Health and Dental Plans, and Vacation time where applicable. Other benefits can be added depending on project duration. 
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JOB CODE EXP-1001-01
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1)      Analyze business & user needs and design Business Intelligence solution that supports business growth and operations with attention to business value and strategic BI direction.


2)      Architect the Cognos 8 BI environment to support the volume of report generation with accepted levels of response times.

 

 

3)       Implement the entire architecture based on the design.

 

4)      Provide best practices for day-to-day operations, performance analysis and tuning and capacity planning.

 

5)       Provide the overall reporting solution foundation for development, implementation and operation for data reporting, modeling, and analysis of a data warehouse. 
 

 

6)      Provide technical support for Cognos 8 applications including report analysis, development, maintenance, and report migration

 

7)      Responsible for developing and maintaining Framework Manager Models; and applying proper securities and publishing packages. Write detailed technical specifications and implement them. 
 
8) Responsible for the complete range of BI capabilities: reporting, analysis, score carding, dashboards and business event management. 
 
9) Responsible for tuning and optimization of the reporting solution.  
 
10) Provide training, support, and best practices for Adhoc Query users and Report Authors.  
 
11) Familiarity with Dimensional Modeling techniques and best practices required. 
 
12) Establish practices to ensure data quality and perform quality reviews of framework manager and data models. 
 
13) Coach in the writing of reports and general use. 
 
14) Mentor members of the reporting team. 


*Cognos 8 design skills are required. 
 
* 2-3 years of experience as a Senior or a Reporting Lead. 
 
* 3-5 years of experience as a Cognos Systems Architect and Report Developer 
 
* 5-10 years of experience in the Business Intelligence / Data Warehouse field 
 
* Strong data modeling and data architecture and analytical skills 
 
* Excellent written and verbal communication skills 
 
* Self-motivated and willing to work in an energetic, fast paced team environment 
 
* Communicate standards and best practices and train report developers on their use. 
 
* Work with report developers, data modelers and business analysts to ensure the BI functional infrastructure meets the design and delivery needs of the business projects. 
 
* Integrate Cognos with other BI and application platforms used internally. 
 
* Provide BI functional help desk including 1st & 2nd level support; on-call; troubleshooting & problem resolution. 
 
* Provide oversight and governance of BI report performance. 

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