Cognos Team Leader - (US-NY-New York)

Cognos Team Leader - (US-NY-New York)

Compensation: $130K - $150K / Year
Minimum Education: Bachelors
Job Type: Full Time
Jobcode: BNRJA68

12+ years experience in implementing BI and Data Warehousing solutions including BI strategy and roadmap, organization assessment, technical assessment and recommendation, tool selection and standard SDLC implementation. 
8+ years experience in authoring and building reports using Cognos Report Studio, Query Studio and Analysis Studio and can explain the overall Cognos 8 and 10 architecture and relationships between the various studios. Experience working with the Cognos SDK is desired. 
8+ years experience working with building complex enterprise wide Cognos semantic layer (Framework Manager) models and packages. 
12+ years of strong SQL experience using Oracle and experience with 10g and ideally Oracle Exadata. 
Experience in performance tuning reports using both Cognos and data modifications in order to meet the required SLA’s. 
Experience in analyzing, planning and implementing the upgrade Cognos. 
Experience building dimensional models and working with entity relational models. Understand and can clearly articulate data architecture concepts such as cartesian joins, partitioning, indexes, union, outer joins and cardinality. 
Has sufficient depth and breadth of functional and technical knowledge to be individually responsible for the overall implementation of all Cognos implementation using a large on shore and off shore and off shore team. 
Understands and can articulate the BI implementation SDLC process. Can advise the program manager on adjustments to the SDLC as required. 
Has experience with developing an d executing test plans for unit, QA, UAT, performance and regression testing. Desired to have experience with testing automation using tool such as roadrunner to test large quantity of reports in an efficient manner. 
12+ years technical experience and a Bachelor of Arts or Science or equivalent degree in Computer Science or related field of study. Without a degree, 3 additional years of experience in equivalent professional field. 

Desired Industry Experience 
Desired to have industry experience in Financial Services especially Capital Markets and Prime Brokerage. 

Analytical Approach 
A strong analytical thinker is required for the position as there is a bit of ambiguity in implementing solutions. Should be able to accurately define requirements for a BI solution and put them clearly into requirements document. 

Management 
8+ years experience leading the implementation of BI solutions using Cognos. 

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