BI Developer & Administrator

BI Developer & Administrator

London: 3 days per week

Summary

We are looking for an experienced BI Developer & Administrator with strong hands-on expertise in IBM Cognos Analytics, covering both development and administration activities. The candidate should also have working experience in Tableau/Alteryx/both, including development, administration, production support, monitoring, and troubleshooting.

The role will involve end-to-end support of BI platforms, including report/dashboard development, platform administration, deployments, security management, performance tuning, incident resolution, and environment maintenance.

Details:

Required Technical Skills

Mandatory / Primary

• Strong hands-on experience with IBM Cognos Analytics.

• Strong experience in Cognos Development and Administration.

• Cognos report development and troubleshooting.

• Framework Manager/metadata modelling knowledge.

• Cognos security, users, groups, roles, and permissions.

• Report scheduling, jobs, deployments, and environment management.

• Performance monitoring and troubleshooting.

• Strong SQL and relational database knowledge.

• Production support and incident-management experience.

Secondary

Candidate should have working experience in at least one of the following:

Tableau

• Tableau report/dashboard development

• Tableau Server/Cloud administration

• User/security management

• Publishing and deployments

• Extract/schedule monitoring

• Performance troubleshooting

and/or

Alteryx

• Alteryx workflow development

• Alteryx Server/Gallery administration

• Workflow scheduling and monitoring

• User/access management

• Workflow troubleshooting and optimization

Good to Have

• Experience supporting multiple BI/reporting platforms.

• Experience with Windows/Linux server environments.

• Database experience such as SQL Server, Oracle, Snowflake, or similar enterprise databases.

• Understanding of ETL/Data Warehouse concepts.

• Scripting or automation knowledge using PowerShell, Python, Shell, or similar technologies.

• Experience with ITIL-based Incident, Problem, Change, and Release Management processes.

• Experience working in enterprise production-support environments.

Functional / Behavioural Skills

• Strong analytical and troubleshooting skills.

• Ability to independently investigate complex production issues.

• Good communication and stakeholder-management skills.

• Ability to work with development, infrastructure, database, networking, and business teams.

• Strong documentation and knowledge-sharing capabilities.

• Ability to manage multiple incidents and priorities simultaneously.

• Willingness to participate in production-support and critical-incident activities when required.