Job Description

Role: Senior Cognos Developer

Location: Halifax, CA (Remote)

Type: Contract

• We are seeking an experienced Senior Cognos Developer to join our team. In this role, you will be responsible for designing, developing, and implementing enterprise-level reporting and business intelligence solutions using IBM Cognos Analytics.
• You will work closely with business analysts and stakeholders to translate business requirements into effective reporting solutions.

Job Responsibilities include:

• Design, develop, and maintain Cognos Analytics reports, dashboards, and models.
• Optimize performance and scalability of Cognos applications.
• Collaborate with business users to gather requirements and enhance reporting capabilities.
• Develop complex data models and frameworks to support analytical needs.

• Provide technical expertise in data visualization and report-building best practices.
• Ensure data accuracy, integrity, and security across all reporting solutions.
• Troubleshoot and resolve Cognos-related issues, ensuring system reliability.
• Maintain documentation for development processes, configurations, and enhancements.
• Participate in requirement gathering sessions.
• As part of unit and regression testing, validate reports and provide a detailed analysis of data.
• Mentoring junior developers regarding best practices and technology stacks used to build the application.
• Work in collaborative environments that follow agile project management methodologies like XP and Scrum.
• Work closely with BI and EDW system administrators for code migrations and production support.
• Debug data quality issues by analyzing the upstream sources and provide guidance on resolutions.
• Closely work with DBAs to fix performance bottlenecks.

Required Skills:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or related field.
• 7+ years of experience in Cognos development.
• Proficiency in Cognos Analytics, including Framework Manager, Report Studio, Dashboarding, and Transformer.
• Strong SQL skills for querying and data manipulation.
• Ability to work independently and as part of a collaborative team.
• Ability to solve problems and operate with a sense of ownership of results.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills.
• Experience with performance tuning.
• Working experience in Teradata, Oracle including performance tuning and debugging performance bottlenecks.
• Conceptual understanding of logical and physical data model is a must, and a working experience is a plus.
• Ability to work in a 24 x 7 setting as either on-call or escalation contact.
• Strong Analytical and problem-solving abilities.

Nice to have skills:

• Certifications in Cognos or Business Intelligence.
• Experience in healthcare payer and / or provider

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