Cognos Administrator

Position: Cognos Administrator

Location: Charlotte, NC or Pennington, NJ(Hybrid)

Duration: Contract

Responsibilities

• As Cognos Analytics Architect, you will design, implement and oversee efficient operating strategy for Cognos Center of Excellence with focus on long term scalability collaborating with other architects.
• As IBM Cognos Analytics subject matter expert, you will advise/educate internal stakeholders about Cognos, Architecture blueprints and best practices.
• Investigate/Troubleshoot complex platform and tenant issues independently or as part of team to provide resolution including production issues.
• Identify areas of opportunities and create project plans to accomplish team objectives with team collaboration.
• Monitor/ maintain/plan platform usage metrics using Python frameworks.
• Automate Cognos Administration with Cognos APIs or Python.
• Analyzing usage patterns and anticipate workload to plan capacity.
• Assist and provide guidance to migrate reports from other platforms such as SSRS, Tableau, Cognos, MicroStrategy, Excel.
• Mentor junior team members and Cognos Analytics developers.
• Keep abreast of recent changes in Cognos Analytics.
• -PMP Certification and proven experience with managing large infrastructure projects is desired.

Required Qualifications

• Experience in Data Analysis, IBM Cognos development, Modelling, ETL concepts, SQL, Oracle, Containers, Cube s Cognos Administration on V12.
• Minimum of 10 years of progressive experience with Cognos Analytics.
• 3 years of Platform Administration and Automation experience.
• Experience with Hybrid and multi-cloud Cognos Analytics deployments.
• RedHat OpenShift Certification and IBM Certified Administrator V12x.
• Experience using Cognos Analytics APIs for Administration/Automation.
• Advance understanding of Databases such as SQL Server, Oracle. DB2 and PostgreSQL.
• Familiar with monitoring/logging tools such as OpenShift Monitoring, Splunk, Dynatrace.
• Experience with tuning Cognos performance within a containerized environment/high availability
• Experience connecting Cognos Analytics to wide variety of files, relational and bigdata based data sources.
• Self-starter with innovative edge with strong communication

Desired Qualifications

• Familiarity with Dynamic Cubes, Data Modules, Framework Manager and Report Server configuration
• Proven experience with deploying Cognos Analytics on OpenShift or Kubernetes(Red Hat OpenShift preferred).
• Experience with customization and versioning of Cognos container images.
• Experienced with CI/CD pipelines.
• Knowledge of networking, TLS/SSL configuration, load balancing, and reverse proxies.