Cognos Administrator

Description

This position will manage the core technical administration, support, and maintenance of Columbia Sportswear's Cognos application infrastructure. This infrastructure consists of the Cognos 8 Business Intelligence and Enterprise Planning application suite, as well as the Cognos Finance toolset. Essential Functions/Responsibilities Administration and support of Cognos application infrastructure worldwide (Series 7 & 8 products) Management and administration of Cognos application security layer Provide technical assistance and troubleshooting with Cognos applications by responding to inquiries and questions Manage communication with IBM / Cognos on debugging efforts and trouble tickets Coordination and maintenance of system reconciliation and data verification procedures Management of application recovery/safeguard protocols Documentation of environment / production change controls logs Lead application performance monitoring efforts / job monitoring Secondary Functions Installation and upgrades of Cognos applications across multiple environments Design and deployment of Cognos application / hardware architecture Work with DBA team / BI Analysts to prototype, test and debug developer content to meet business requirements Development, deployment, and management of reporting portal interfaces Assist the enterprise business intelligence team with report development, query optimization, and data quality End user training of basic application interaction and navigation