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I’m Anna Rocheva, a recruiter with USTAS Technologies.
I'm glad to present you a challenging position with a reputed financial organization based in Rockville, MD. They're looking for a top-notch professional and offer a highly competitive compensation package and inspiring work environment.
The Senior ReportNet Administrator/Developer will work with other members of the Client's report development maintenance team responsible for the definition and delivery of reporting solutions across the enterprise on all aspects of report administration, development & maintenance using COGNOS ReportNet toolset. The Senior ReportNet Administrator/Developer reports directly to the Director of Software Development. Candidate should be willing to learn all the technical complexity associated with administration and development support of Cognos. Candidate should have a solid programming skills and some experience with Unix and/or database administration skills.
This individual will architect Cognos server environment to meet the growth and usage needs, gains consensus on infrastructure needs, migrates Cognos environment to target architecture.
Essential Job Functions:
Commitment to the finding effective solutions and resolving complex§ issues associated with Cognos usage by the user community and other team members.
§ Use Cognos server administration tool to perform administrative tasks.
§ Troubleshooting and resolving issues using the Cognos log message facility.
§ Continuously work on performance tuning and optimization using load balancing and distributed hardware architecture.
§ Coordinate with external project resources, including configuration management and Operations & Engineering.
§ Communicate task progress and issues to management and project sponsor.
Drive architecture decisions in small to medium sized projects.§ Coordinate with dedicated Architects on larger and more complex projects.
§ Ensure compliance with standard software development practices, processes and enterprise standards.
§ Define, design, develop and deliver flexible reports that meet business user needs
§ Adheres to a SDLC as part of the development activities
Execute business requirements in a COGNOS environment, insuring data§ security, user friendly reports with "drill-thru" features.
§ Verify correctness and completeness of data model, data relationships, mappings, and definition.
§ Provide day-to-day support for all COGNOS users.
§ Provide recommendations based on COGNOS audit/monitoring reports.
§ Coordinate technical maintenance of COGNOS applications including necessary upgrades for reporting applications with IT.
§ Process improvement for delivering reports to end users
§ Develop design documentation, Installation Guides and Release Notes for all development efforts
Education / Experience Requirements:
§ Bachelor’s degree in computer science or advanced degree preferred.
Minimum of 8-10 years experience in data centric§ & report administration & development -- specifically engaging business intelligence, data warehouse projects, business intelligence tools such as COGNOS, understanding of dimensional models, analytics and reporting, business analysis, data analysis, logical data modeling highly desirable.
Minimum of 5 years of experience with the Cognos Business§ Intelligence platform, with at least 3 years of experience with Cognos ReportNet/8.
Minimum of 3 years experience of Cognos administration, UNIX, SQL§ Server and Oracle Database experience. Must have very good architectural understanding of the Cognos distributed environment on a UNIX/windows platform with experience with upgrading, configuring and administrating Cognos products.
§ Extensive hands-on experience with troubleshooting performance issues associated with COGNOS ReportNet 1.1 (MR2/MR3).
§ Experience in using administrating tools for Windows and UNIX is a must.
Experience with OLAP, reporting, and ad-hoc analysis is necessary,§ along with an understanding of databases and database connectivity.
Substantial experience and expertise in using COGNOS ReportNet tool§ in the areas of Metadata, Portal and User management & administration, creating simple and complex reports. Extensive experience in the areas of implementing and managing reporting tool governors and reporting environment usage with built in and custom mechanisms. Hands on experience in managing and monitoring reporting servers/modules.
§ Experience with Cognos ReportNet and Series 8 BI is preferred
§ Experience migrating Cognos Series 7 reports to ReportNet is preferred
§ Experience in creating reports, portal customization and unit testing.
§ Demonstrated ability to delivery software projects of high complexity and risk
§ Proven ability to negotiate competing features with customers, ensuring an achievable commitment.
§ Outstanding communication, organization, time management, interpersonal and management skills
§ Certification with COGNOS Tool set is a plus
Experience working with large scale, complex system (data structure§ and usage, reporting requirements, interfaces with other systems) in a corporate setting.
§ Minimum of 1 years experience with Cognos Software Development Kit (SDK) and Java is a strong plus
§ Ability to work independently and as part of a team.
§ Ability to work on simultaneous projects and capable of rapidly responding to production related issues
§ Excellent problem identification, analysis and solving skills
§ Excellent written and oral communication skills
The pay rate is up to $90/hr. Excellent benefits include but aren't limited to 401 (K) plan, 100% family medical insurance, paid vacation, etc.
All relocation probelms will be worked out. We do work on c2c and transfer H1B, ready to sponsor green cards.
We speak Russian
If you feel you could be a match for the opening - don't hesitate to contact Anna at 301-242-5033 or [email protected]. If you don't - pass it to your friends.
I’m Anna Rocheva, a recruiter with USTAS Technologies.
I'm glad to present you a challenging position with a reputed financial organization based in Rockville, MD. They're looking for a top-notch professional and offer a highly competitive compensation package and inspiring work environment.
The Senior ReportNet Administrator/Developer will work with other members of the Client's report development maintenance team responsible for the definition and delivery of reporting solutions across the enterprise on all aspects of report administration, development & maintenance using COGNOS ReportNet toolset. The Senior ReportNet Administrator/Developer reports directly to the Director of Software Development. Candidate should be willing to learn all the technical complexity associated with administration and development support of Cognos. Candidate should have a solid programming skills and some experience with Unix and/or database administration skills.
This individual will architect Cognos server environment to meet the growth and usage needs, gains consensus on infrastructure needs, migrates Cognos environment to target architecture.
Essential Job Functions:
Commitment to the finding effective solutions and resolving complex§ issues associated with Cognos usage by the user community and other team members.
§ Use Cognos server administration tool to perform administrative tasks.
§ Troubleshooting and resolving issues using the Cognos log message facility.
§ Continuously work on performance tuning and optimization using load balancing and distributed hardware architecture.
§ Coordinate with external project resources, including configuration management and Operations & Engineering.
§ Communicate task progress and issues to management and project sponsor.
Drive architecture decisions in small to medium sized projects.§ Coordinate with dedicated Architects on larger and more complex projects.
§ Ensure compliance with standard software development practices, processes and enterprise standards.
§ Define, design, develop and deliver flexible reports that meet business user needs
§ Adheres to a SDLC as part of the development activities
Execute business requirements in a COGNOS environment, insuring data§ security, user friendly reports with "drill-thru" features.
§ Verify correctness and completeness of data model, data relationships, mappings, and definition.
§ Provide day-to-day support for all COGNOS users.
§ Provide recommendations based on COGNOS audit/monitoring reports.
§ Coordinate technical maintenance of COGNOS applications including necessary upgrades for reporting applications with IT.
§ Process improvement for delivering reports to end users
§ Develop design documentation, Installation Guides and Release Notes for all development efforts
Education / Experience Requirements:
§ Bachelor’s degree in computer science or advanced degree preferred.
Minimum of 8-10 years experience in data centric§ & report administration & development -- specifically engaging business intelligence, data warehouse projects, business intelligence tools such as COGNOS, understanding of dimensional models, analytics and reporting, business analysis, data analysis, logical data modeling highly desirable.
Minimum of 5 years of experience with the Cognos Business§ Intelligence platform, with at least 3 years of experience with Cognos ReportNet/8.
Minimum of 3 years experience of Cognos administration, UNIX, SQL§ Server and Oracle Database experience. Must have very good architectural understanding of the Cognos distributed environment on a UNIX/windows platform with experience with upgrading, configuring and administrating Cognos products.
§ Extensive hands-on experience with troubleshooting performance issues associated with COGNOS ReportNet 1.1 (MR2/MR3).
§ Experience in using administrating tools for Windows and UNIX is a must.
Experience with OLAP, reporting, and ad-hoc analysis is necessary,§ along with an understanding of databases and database connectivity.
Substantial experience and expertise in using COGNOS ReportNet tool§ in the areas of Metadata, Portal and User management & administration, creating simple and complex reports. Extensive experience in the areas of implementing and managing reporting tool governors and reporting environment usage with built in and custom mechanisms. Hands on experience in managing and monitoring reporting servers/modules.
§ Experience with Cognos ReportNet and Series 8 BI is preferred
§ Experience migrating Cognos Series 7 reports to ReportNet is preferred
§ Experience in creating reports, portal customization and unit testing.
§ Demonstrated ability to delivery software projects of high complexity and risk
§ Proven ability to negotiate competing features with customers, ensuring an achievable commitment.
§ Outstanding communication, organization, time management, interpersonal and management skills
§ Certification with COGNOS Tool set is a plus
Experience working with large scale, complex system (data structure§ and usage, reporting requirements, interfaces with other systems) in a corporate setting.
§ Minimum of 1 years experience with Cognos Software Development Kit (SDK) and Java is a strong plus
§ Ability to work independently and as part of a team.
§ Ability to work on simultaneous projects and capable of rapidly responding to production related issues
§ Excellent problem identification, analysis and solving skills
§ Excellent written and oral communication skills
The pay rate is up to $90/hr. Excellent benefits include but aren't limited to 401 (K) plan, 100% family medical insurance, paid vacation, etc.
All relocation probelms will be worked out. We do work on c2c and transfer H1B, ready to sponsor green cards.
We speak Russian
If you feel you could be a match for the opening - don't hesitate to contact Anna at 301-242-5033 or [email protected]. If you don't - pass it to your friends.