Job Description :
Cognos 11.2 Motio CI Architect (05387)
Albany, NY
24 Months
Job Description:
This Technical Architect position will support the OTDA IES project and other data systems reporting systems. The purpose of this project is to support the transition of OTDA to IES analytical reporting requirements.
This position is a lead IBM Cognos Technical Administration role that will participate in a team approach to:
Install and configure the IBM Cognos 11 Business Intelligence (BI software in a multi-tiered Cognos server environment; Web, App and LDAP Windows servers;
Install and configure IBM Cognos BI Transformer software on Unix Server.
Maintain scripts between the IBM Cognos BI install on Windows and Unix Servers.
Maintain the Cognos BI architecture, including troubleshooting and problem resolution.
Contribute to the design and implementation of the metadata and/or reporting components of the IES project solution (building and/or modifying Cognos data structures) to insure implementation of best practices. This includes testing and deployment of the components
Provide troubleshooting and end user support and problem resolution.
Participate in sessions to develop requirements for the reporting projects in Cognos Reporting.
Participate in joint sessions defining security in all levels of the Cognos Reporting environment.
Create scripts for maintaining the Servers, Portal and LDAP, and application support.
Provide technical documentation for the Cognos reporting environment, including but not limited to Server architecture, Cognos Connection configuration settings, and security of all levels of the Cognos deployment
Create and support the Reporting Web Service using Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) principles
Create models using best practices with IBM Cognos BI Framework Manager tools
Create Cubes using IBM Cognos BI Transformer
Create Work Requests with other NYS ITS units to support Cognos Reporting.
Ensure that development activities adhere to the HSC architectural strategy so that overall business intelligence data integrity is maintained.
Candidates should have at least 84 months experience and a majority of the following should apply:
Each candidate should fill out the months of experience they have for each item in the table:
1. 84 Months Demonstrated hands-on experience in IBM Cognos administration, installation, server configuration, BI solution design, and technical support of all components of the IBM Cognos Business intelligence suite of tools. #OF MONTHS
2. 36 Months Demonstrated hands on experience with Motio Persona installation and configuration with MotioCI deployments, regression testing and versioning. #OF MONTHS
3. 84 Months Demonstrated hands-on experience using industry best practices with IBM Cognos Transformer 8.3 or higher creating data cube models against existing data marts implementing complex data, object, and cube security with the IBM BI Cognos Framework Manager and Transformer tools including LDAP user classes and Cognos Groups and Roles. #OF MONTHS
4. 18 Months Demonstrated hands-on experience with Cognos 11.2 or higher in continuous quarterly upgrades in a Multi-web, multi-application tier configuration including SSO, advanced routing, dynamic cubes, dynamic query mode, query service configuration, dashboards, data modeling, web authoring, and migrations of dashboards, data modules including migrations from 10.2 to 11.x. #OF MONTHS
5. 84 Months Demonstrated hands-on experience implementing IBM Cognos BI application security using Active Directory (AD), Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP) and Siteminder. #OF MONTHS
6. 72 Months Demonstrated hands-on experience in designing, building, and maintaining report solutions using all functions of the IBM Cognos BI 8.4 or higher suite of tools supporting reports, score carding, and analysis using relational and dimensional data marts and transactional databases. #OF MONTHS
7. 72 Months Demonstrated hands-on experience using IBM BI Cognos Framework Manager 8.4 or higher using best practices to model reporting packages. #OF MONTHS
8. 84 Months Demonstrated hands-on experience with web services including developing Java scripting, SQL, Unix Scripting, and writing code NET,JAVA, JavaScript) to support Cognos SDK and Cognos Web-Service. #OF MONTHS
9. IBM Cognos BI 8 or higher Certification #OF MONTHS