Cognos Software Developer 9423-2015

Foilcon


Date: 10 hours ago
City: Toronto, Ontario
Contract type: Contractor
HM Note: This hybrid contract role is three (3) days in office. Candidates resume must include first and last name.

Description

  • Analysis of business requirement documents and liaison with clients.
  • Facilitating IT development, design, construction, testing, promotion, implementation of web-based/n-tier, cloud-based and mainframe applications
  • Define standards for the integration and governance of enterprise data
  • Design metadata management programs and scripts
  • Define and evaluate conceptual, logical, and physical BI solution architectures
  • Design healthcare business information structures (cubes, dimensions, facts, tables, etc.)
  • Perform data quality assessments, data transformation, and data cleansing
  • Develop test scripts and perform testing of BI solutions
  • Responsible for Java based development utilizing a combination of WebSphere, JDBC, Oracle, DB2, DataPower and associated Web technologies including JavaScript and JSP
  • Responsible for integration of Open Source Software (OSS) products into new and existing systems
  • Creation and walk-through of Systems Response documents, Technical Specifications, Application Inventory, and Implementation Plans.
  • Preparation of test plans, test data, and unit-testing of programs.
  • Preparation of implementation plans and promotion of programs.
  • System Support/Documentation
  • As assigned, response to client queries and troubleshooting of production incidents.
  • Conduct/participate in design walkthroughs as well as test case and test results walkthroughs.
  • Support testing of the changes by other team members.
  • Weekly reporting on status, progress, and key issue/concerns as directed by the Project Lead/Project Manager or Portfolio Manager

Skills

Experience and Skill Set Requirements

Technical Skills: 45%

  • 5 + more years of business intelligence experience
  • 5 + years of Cognos experience
  • 5+ years â Framework Manager and Report Studio
  • 5+ years â Active Reports, Transformer and dashboarding
  • 5+ years â Report Studio (including being a trainer/mentor)
  • 3+ years â Metrics Studio
  • 5 years data analysis experience
  • IBM Certified Designer â Cognos 11.2.1 BI Reports
  • IBM Certified Developer â Cognos 11.2.1 BI Metadata Models
  • IBM Certified Administrator â Cognos 11.2.1 BI
  • Experience in facilitating workshops with diverse groups of stakeholders (e.g. technical, clinical, executive)
  • Experience evaluating design options to support the implementation of a system.
  • Preparation of automated deployment builds (Jenkins)
  • Experience in structured, agile and DevOps methodologies for the development, design, implementation, and maintenance of applications.
  • Experience with one or more platforms, including the operating system, database technology, communication protocols, middleware, and gateways
  • Experience developing or maintaining large scale IT systems, including high-volume public facing programs
  • Development and design of new programs or enhancements to existing ones
  • Integration of service API's and micro-services to existing or new web services.
  • Ability to understand and analyze business requirements, and to design structured programs that efficiently satisfy these requirements
  • Ability to write programs that are modular, well-structured, and easy to maintain
  • Demonstrated success writing system design and implementation documents
  • Experience with, and understanding of, relational databases (DB2, Oracle, MS-SQL)
  • Preparation of test plans, test data, and unit-testing of programs
  • Preparation of implementation plans and promotion of modules
  • Participate in business requirements walkthroughs
  • Conduct/participate in design walkthroughs
  • Conduct/participate in testing walkthroughs

Analytical Skills: 35%

  • Analysis of business requirement documents and liaison with clients
  • Experience adopting and adhering to unified I&IT project management methodologies (waterfall, agile and DevOps) enterprise architecture and gating frameworks, and standard systems development methodologies.
  • Respond to client queries and troubleshooting of production incidents with proven and demonstrable troubleshooting and analytical experience

Communications Skills: 15%

  • Strong verbal and written communications skills.
  • Strong Interpersonal and negotiation skills.
  • Strong consulting skills to engage with all stakeholders.
  • A demonstrated team player with a track record for meeting deadlines.
  • Demonstrated success in working productively with business clients, developers, and technical specialists such as DBAs, web administrators, etc.

Public Sector Experience: 15%

  • Experience working in the Public Sector

Must Haves

  • 5 + more years of business intelligence experience
  • 5 + years of Cognos experience
  • 5+ years â Framework Manager and Report Studio
  • 5+ years â Active Reports, Transformer and dashboarding
  • 5+ years â Report Studio (including being a trainer/mentor)
  • 3+ years â Metrics Studio
  • 5 years data analysis experience
  • IBM Certified Designer â Cognos 11.2.1 BI Reports
  • IBM Certified Developer â Cognos 11.2.1 BI Metadata Models
  • IBM Certified Administrator â Cognos 11.2.1 BI
  • Experience with, and understanding of, relational databases (DB2, Oracle, MS-SQL)
  • Preparation of test plans, test data, and unit-testing of programs
  • Preparation of implementation plans and promotion of modules
  • Participate in business requirements walkthroughs
  • Conduct/participate in design walkthroughs
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