Cognos BI Developer

GTRI - Cognos BI DeveloperLocation: Atlanta, GADuration: 8 MonthsCandidates local to Atlanta strongly preferredImpact & Influence: This position will interact on a consistent basis with: Other BI developers and analysts, project managers database administrators, customers and department management.Key Responsibilities:- Interpret user needs and design report format consistent with those needs.- Identify and search databases and other sources as necessary to collect data required to produce reports.- Organize source data in manner that facilitates data analysis and report production.- Perform data analysis and produce reports.- Confer with users regarding data needs.- Perform other related duties as assigned.- Support a business intelligence environment using Cognos & other IBM products- Troubleshooting of report issues and performance issues that are critical- Work with DBAs, report authors and system administrators to track down and improve or eliminate bottlenecks in the BI reporting & ETL environment- To design, build & deliver BI solutions using Cognos Anlytics 11.x- Provide technical support to Cognos power users.Specialized skills required for this job :- 2+ years of Cognos Report development experience- 1 year with the latest version Cognos Analytics 11.x- 2-3 years of experience with Framework Manager.- Proficient with writing Oracle sqls.- Troubleshooting of report issues and performance issues.- Experience with building Dashboards and familiar with other BI tools like Tableau, Power BI.-3 years experience w/ C++-3 years experience w/Java-2 years experience w/JavaSkill - Required / Desired - Amount of ExperienceCognos Report development experience (2 years +) - Required - 2Experience with the latest version Cognos Analytics 11.x - Required - 12-3 years of experience with Framework Manager. - Required - 2Proficient with writing Oracle sqls. - Required - 1Troubleshooting of report issues and performance issues. - Required - 2Experience with building Dashboards and familiar with other BI tools like Tableau, Power BI. - Required - 23 years experience w/ C++ - Required - 33 years experience w/Java - Required - 32 years experience w/Java - Required