Requirement details:
Role: Sr. IBM CognosTM1 consultant
Location: Seattle, WA (Day1 Onsite)
Duration: 12+ Months
Job Description:
Deliver reliable, scalable, and efficient Cognos solutions by managing all phases of the software development life cycle (SDLC), including requirements gathering, modeling & design, development, testing, deployment, integration, and documentation.
Partner with peer Finance teams utilizing to ensure consistent design & integration.
Work with cross-functional teams to develop solutions that accelerate cycle times, alleviate cumbersome manual processes, and ensure financial results are accurate.
Identify process improvement opportunities to drive innovation
Support dimension management, metadata design/maintenance, ETL development, and data validation processes.
Rotational on-call availability for critical systems support
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS
Ability to work independently and self-motivate in a fast-paced and rapidly changing environment.
Experience architecting business solutions that leverage the right technology
Experience advocating and proliferating best practices in reporting and analysis, including data integrity, test design, analysis, validation, and documentation
Direct experience using Business Intelligence (BI) reporting tools, preferably Cognos v10x (Report Studio, Analysis Studio, Workspace, Framework Manager), or similar technology (OBIEE, BusinessObjects, Tableau, MicroStrategy, SAP, etc.).
Experience with dimension management software processes and MDM tools (Oracle DRM) - Advanced knowledge of SQL, Oracle, OLAP, and data warehousing concepts.
Familiarity and development experience with web services technologies is a strong plus (e.g. HTTPS, REST, XML, JSON, etc.).
JAVA/PERL/Ruby/Python scripting language experience.
Experience with third-party ETL tools (IBM DataStage or Data Manager, Informatica, etc.).
Familiarity with AWS solutions such as EC2, DynamoDB, S3, Redshift, and Aurora.