Cognos Report Engineer

Cognos Report Engineer

Essential Skills

                  5 to7 year IBM Cognos development experience with IBM Open Pages

                  Excellent knowledge of Oracle SQL Cognos

                  Strong communication skills

                  Ability to design and develop Cognos Analytics dashboards and active reports

                  Ability to apply agile development practices to requirements gathering and product development

                  Ability to validate data and visualizations against requirements and source data

                  Ability to design data visualizations for consumption and understanding by nontechnical users

                  Ability to use SQL for selecting summarizing and reporting on data from a structured database

                  Working Experience in creating Cognos reports over IBM OpenPages Data Model

                  Working in Agile framework

                  Strong technical concepts to help team deliver the technical design solutions

Good to have

                  Experience on OpenPages Configurations Development

                  Experience in DevOps CICD tools eg Jenkins

                  Experience on batch jobs shell scripting

Responsibilities

                  Responsible for working with customers to gatherrefine user requirements validating requirements using agile development practices to build design and build to the requirements test and verify that product conforms to requirements and ensure customer acceptance after delivery

                  Using Cognos builds reports dashboards and metrics in EDW Develops and maintains data catalogues data cubes queries and reports

                  Maintain quality of Cognos products ensuring consistent validation against source data and requirements through Lifecyle of the reportdashboardmetric

                  Work with the Product Owner Solution  Platform Architects to identify changes required create  agree necessary stories

                  Identify options creating logical  innovative solutions to complex problems

                  Ensures the level of automation within the team is optimised at all times reducing the need for human intervention in the design development and operational lifecycles including decisions on tooling to achieve optimal performance

                  Work with the Agile Lead to ensure efficient flow of the backlog of change activities