Job Description :
Role: Cognos Developer
Location: Farmingtion Hills, MI
Job Description
Responsible for interacting with key users to support the reporting needs within Mercedes Benz Financial Services including production, ad-hoc, and manual reporting. Responsible for enhancing the MORIS Data Mart (DM), Remarketing DM, Data Warehouse Staging area, and the DW by following formal system development methods.
Job Responsibilities:
Generating reports and information for supported departments (Alliance Business Center, HQ, all brands, all countries
Development of COGNOS repots for supported departments accurately and within estimated development times and according to the approved scope specifications.
For supported departments, utilization of Cognos Impromptu, PowerPlay, Access, SQL, Excel, or VBA to develop new reports, update existing reports, and provide ad hoc support within the BICC environment.
Work with the assigned business analyst to identify data availability and development issues with the report project prior to scope creation.
Assess prepared scope statement and provide estimated effort estimation of effort (in hours
Update scope statement as necessary during report development.
Work with IT to publish reports to the COGNOS website.
Create daily, weekly, or monthly reports according to delivery schedule. Reports must be accurate and within scheduled due dates.
Resolve production issues for existing reports. Utilize COGNOS 10.1.1 components, PowerPlay, Access, SQL , EXCEL, or VBA to trouble shoot, modify or enhance existing production reports. Reports must be accurate and within scheduled due dates.
Support BICC Team as requested with special initiatives/projects.
Provide external support/extracts when necessary (including vendors, and brand partners)
Work with Data Warehouse team as needed to define new data warehouse tables needed for reporting, including gathering requirements, documenting requirements, and user acceptance testing
Improving the reporting environment by: capturing new change requests and locating the needed data within the data warehouse or source system.
Understanding the file structure of the source systems to the extent necessary to extract and load the needed information.
Update specifications and work with IT to validate the data stage and DM changes.
Provide formal and informal reporting training for the user community.
Manage the structure of COGNOS web portal to provide an easy and intuitive interface to the user community
Additional Skills:
8+ Years of experience.
Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or equivalent
Required:
Expert level SQL skills
Expert level skills and job experience in Cognos Report Studio, Analyst Studio, Transformer, and Multidimensional reporting
. Strong skills and job experience in Cognos Active reports
Preferred:
SAS
Tableau