Senior Cognos Developer & Administrator (With Strong SQL Expertise)


Trail Blazer Consulting LLC
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Skills
- Cognos
- Administration
- SQL
- AWS
Summary
Senior Cognos Developer & Administrator (With Strong SQL Expertise)
Malvern, PA
3+ Months
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Role Overview
Seeking a Senior Cognos Developer/Admin with strong SQL expertise and hands-on Cognos Administration experience. Responsible for developing enterprise reporting solutions while maintaining Cognos platform stability, security, and performance. Ideal candidate has experience in Cognos Development and Administration within large enterprise environments.
Job Responsibilities
Key Responsibilities
Reporting & Development
• Develop and maintain Cognos reports, dashboards, and Framework Manager models.
• Create reusable, high-performance reporting solutions.
• Build pixel-perfect, burst reports, drill-throughs, and dashboards.
• Optimize report and query performance.
• Develop and maintain metadata models, packages, and data layers.
• Gather requirements and translate business needs into reporting solutions.
SQL & Data
• Develop complex SQL queries, views, and stored procedures.
• Perform query tuning and execution plan analysis.
• Work with large enterprise datasets.
• Design efficient reporting data models and determine optimal placement of business logic.
Cognos Administration
• Administer Cognos Dev, QA, and Prod environments.
• Manage security, LDAP/AD integration, roles, permissions, and data sources.
• Monitor platform health, performance, scheduling, and report execution.
• Support deployments, migrations, upgrades, and content store management.
• Troubleshoot platform, security, and report-related issues.
Required Qualifications
• Bachelor''s degree in Computer Science or related field.
• Strong expertise in ALL BELOW WITH Cognos Version 12 and Higher:
o Cognos Analytics
o Framework Manager
o Report Development & Dashboarding
o Cognos Administration
• Advanced SQL (Oracle, SQL Server, PostgreSQL, Redshift).
• Experience with AWS environments.
• Strong performance tuning and troubleshooting skills.
• Experience supporting large-scale enterprise reporting platforms.
Preferred Qualifications
• Financial Services / Asset Management experience.
• Cognos migrations, upgrades, and deployments.
• Power BI or Tableau exposure or AWS Quick Sight.- Nice to have
• ETL/Data Integration knowledge.
• Snowflake, Redshift, or cloud analytics experience.
- Dice Id: 91093714
- Position Id: 9045811
- Posted 4 hours ago
Company Info
About Trail Blazer Consulting LLC
At TRAIL BLAZER we help our IT consultants explore different industries, multiply their skills, and accelerate their career growth with industry-leading firms. We offer the flexibility of direct hire placements, temporary, and project work. With offices nationwide, TRAIL BLAZER combines the resources of a national network with in- depth local expertise. We offer the flexibility of direct placements, and project work.
Trail Blazer Consulting LLC is headquartered in Astoria, NY, USA. We are a leading professional consulting firm with a global database of applicants and state of art technology and process to identify the best and brightest skills.Trail Blazer is committed to provide customer satisfaction through commitment highest standards of services. With a range of skill sets and a flexible support network, we can deliver quick and cost effective resources to our valued Clients. We spend a considerable amount of time and resources screening and hiring top quality consultants, which allows us to provide premier resources that meet and exceed our client expectations.
OUR MISSION, VISION& VALUES:
We at TRAIL BLAZER CONSULTING believe in attaining success. We know that success is important to both our associates and our clients. Our mission is to understand and deliver 100%. With our commitment towards our clients, it helps us in achieving growth, innovation and excellence. We want to be an integral part of that process. To that end, we believe in the following Mission & Vision Statements and set of Core Values:
STAFF AUGMENTATION:
Staff Augmentation, or better known as subcontracting, is primarily outsourcing of manpower on a skill requirement or project completion basis for a limited period of time. From the past few years the IT departments have gone through a difficult phase as they have been pressed to deliver impressive results on multiple initiatives with limited staff. Staffing may be desired when there are a dynamic temporary or permanent people or skilled staff.
IT CONSULTING:
TRAIL BLAZER brings together the key IT consulting services that address aspects of reducing cost, increasing agility and enabling transformation. Our consultations are based on an analytical approach to understand the business problems, resulting in the practical recommendation and actionable plans. Our value proposition is based on a confluence of business knowledge, deep hands-on technology skills and a focused approach through the use of in-house methodologies, frameworks and tools.
CORE VALUES:
TRAIL BLAZER CONSULTING core values convey who we are as an organization and how we deliver value.
VOLUNTEER
our time, talent & resources
ACCOUNTABILITY
as we pursue our aspirations
LEGACY
to impact others lives
UNBEATABLE
as we collaborate & compete
EXTRAORDINARY
in all we do
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