Cognos Developer -NYC

Cognos Developer

Location: NYC

Position Type: 6+ months Contract

Rate: DOE W2/1099

Interview mode: Phone or Skype

US Citizen, Green Card and GC EAD Preferred

Engagement Location, Hours and Duration:

The engagement will take place at our NYC location. Consultant during this engagement is expected to travel 10% within the 5 boroughs of NYC.

Principal Duties and Responsibilities

This person will be typically responsible for designing, implementing and administering Cognos securities and business intelligence portals including design, development and deployment of multi-dimensional reports using the Cognos Business Intelligence solution; Building and optimizing data models and packages using Framework Manager; Assist in BI Strategy/Planning, User Training, Production support for Cognos issues

• Interface with the business analyst to define the business and technical requirements
• Make recommendations on changes required to implement clinical reporting systems
• Assist in translating business requirements into conceptual, logical and Reporting model
• Engage with business partners to understand functional requirements to design best possible global solutions
• Analyze business and data requirements and help define the best solution.
• Familiarity with drafting a BRD
• Create and maintain document to support developed applications.
• Create Cognos Cubes, Packages, reports, dynamic dashboards as per the requirements.
• Assist the business in assessing the data requirements of the solution
• Document the functional specifications of the solutions
• Proven team player
• Good understanding of Cognos Design and Architecture, Security, FM Model, Package and Report Level. Build complex Framework Manager Packages.
• Strong data warehouse concepts
• Design, develop and deliver Cognos reports, dashboards and Modeling

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

• Be part of BI development team and assist in all stages of development from conception to development to testing to optimization
• Design and develop clinical reporting application.
• Responsible for oversight and development of DSS database architecture, design, programming and implementation for Reporting projects
• Design of specialized data structures for the purposes of data consumption by a public facing website and/or business intelligence data visualization
• Proficient in Data warehousing, Data Analysis, Multi-dimensional modeling, Star schema, Snow flake schema, Fact and dimension tables
• Cognos FM Data modeling and corporate-level data management experience preferred
• Create and maintain document to support developed applications.
• Very Good SQL Development skills.

Qualifications / Required Skill:

• 10+ IT experience (preferably healthcare)
• Cognos Architecture and Design, Implementation of security at FM Model, Package and Report Level
• Full domain knowledge of Cognos suite of tools. Including SDK & Java-scripting.
• 8 + yrs. IBM Cognos experience & 5+ Years of Oracle as Backend
• 1+ yrs. Business Objects.

A Bachelor Degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, Mathematics or equivalent is required