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NEED LOCAL IN New YORK CITY , (NYC)// Urgently Looking For COGNOS DEVELOPER (BI)// HYBRID — New YORK CITY , (NYC) // NOH1B

Role:                   COGNOS DEVELOPER (BI)

Visa:                    NOH1B

Location:            Hybrid in NYC

Duration:            3 years

SCOPE OF SERVICES:

The City of New York requires IT professional services to support day-to-day financial reporting needs for critical business functions and objectives related to the reporting and compliance requirements. This includes:

1. Extensive knowledge of IBM/Cognos Reporting/Analytics, Modeling, OLAP and ETL tools.

2. Implementation of new reports, dashboards and the enhancements of existing reports.

3. Engaging closely with business stakeholders and providing functional translation of Business requirements to ensure expectations for project successes.

4. Makes high-level design choices and dictates technical standards, including software coding standards, tools, and platforms.

OUTLINE OF RESPONSIBILITIES

• Creating, enhancing and maintaining reporting models to support business requirements

• Design report models using department and company goals as a filter for processing relevant data

• Design multi-leveled query structures

• Write SQL Queries where necessary for complex Cognos reporting project requirements

• Design and Implement Cognos Drill Through and Bookmark features in reports

• Design reports using HTML tags in the Cognos Reporting Tool

• Maintain knowledge on all new software and financial techniques to make design choice solutions

• Monitor report response times and ensure optimal utilization of all SQL scripts

• Conduct requirements meetings with end-users utilizing quantitative, analytical and business skills and knowledge to understand crucial data needs for different business users.

• Coordinate with data architecture and modeling teams to prepare and design reports that best fit user’s requirements

• Assist with managing report security, folder security, database row level security, report schedules and distributions

• Develop and maintain dashboards and apply data visualization best practices

• Assures consistent quality of report results by developing, validating, and providing the necessary documentation

• Plan, control and execute Unit and System Testing

• Create email distributions using the Cognos automated bursting features that uses data results

• Perform Cognos maintenance activities including schedule and report queue monitoring

• Document report issues and problems to provide update status and resolutions to project manager

MANDATORY MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS  The successful candidate must have minimally achieved the following level of experience:

● 8+ years of experience supporting day to day operations of Cognos BI and Analytics

● 4+ years of experience in working with Cognos Framework Manager, data modeling and the development of packages accessing various data sources including SQL Server and DB2.

● 4+ years of experience in preparing with Microsoft Office products such as MS Project, MS Access, Visio, PowerPoint, Excel and Word where required

● 4+ years of experience in Microsoft SQL Server databases, SQL Reporting tools, Microsoft TFS and TFS Release Manager PREFERABLE QUALIFICATIONS

● Bachelor’s degree or a master’s degree in computer science from an accredited college

● Prior education industry/project experience

● Excellent oral and written communication skills; ability to communicate in a credible and confident manner at all levels in the organization including conveying technical issues to a non-technical audience.

● Detailed and process oriented.

● Familiarity with city financial systems (FMS and FAMIS)

Regards:

Balraj Singh

Headwit Global Inc.

[email protected]

5900 Belcones drive

Suit #100, Austin, TX , 78731