Cognis Developer

Description

JOB DESCRIPTION Currently Suncoke has purchased Congos version 10, and has not yet implemented it into their environment. They have a need for a Lead Cognos Developer to drive the technical side of their project. They want to designate this person as their goto expert for Cognos. Suncoke has 3 major projects going on, and this person will be involved on the BI Datawarehousing Application. They have broken this project down into 5 phases, and are kicking off phase 1 in April. This is originally slated for 18 months, and the budget is already approved for this entire project. This candidate will report directly to the IT Director.
Suncoke plans to send their team to IBM to be trained in Cognos. When those individuals return, the candidate will be responsible for ironing out any details that were not clear in training. They will also be responsible for mentoring these individuals on any questions that they have. All the basic Cognos development will be done by this team of individuals. Anything of the complex reports or dashboards will be handled by this resource. There will only be 40% or less of development. The main responsibility of this person is to be able to drive the technical side of the project and be able to make a solid knowledge transfer of Cognos to the team. This person will also be responsible for gathering requirements in the sense that they will have to sit with all stakeholders and users to determine what they are looking for in their reports, and if Cognos is able to support that. An ideal candidate is someone that a Senior level Cognos developer that has 46 yrs of development experience with 1 year of Architect experience. ADDITIONAL JOB DETAILS Leadership and coaching must demonstrate expertise in formal processes, methodologies, and artifacts for executing BI development functions in a controlled and repeatable manner with minimum duplication of effort
must coordinate the efforts of multiple BI developers for largescale efforts
must provide accurate assessments of time required to produce reports in the chosen BI toolset
must be able to provide training/mentoring to other BI developers to increase their skill levels over time
Toolspecific knowledge must understand data modeling constraints and methods of optimization for chosen BI toolset
must be able to understand conceptual models in depth and render those models to the analytic engine of the chosen BI toolset
works closely with information architect and database administration to ensure optimum performance of the BI reporting system
BI reporting design and development captures reporting requirements via interviews with the business user or users that made the request
documents reporting requirements in standard format
analyzes reporting requirements to generate design documentation relevant to the chosen BI toolset
creates BI artifacts (i.e. reports, alerts, visualizations, etc.) that satisfy reporting requirements
works with business users to refine/adapt/maintain BI artifacts as business user needs change or the data environment changes
works closely with information architect to extend multidimensional model when necessary to meet new business needs
works closely with data stewards to validate data dictionaries and other metadata for reporting data sources
TOP 3 SKILLS 1) 5+ yrs of experience in Cognos development
2) Cognos version 10
3) Technical Lead experience
INTERVIEW INFORMATION Phone interview with BI Lead then Personal Interview with IT Director
WORK ENVIRONMENT It is a deadline intensive environment. The teams are not large. They work in a very collaborative environment.
BUSINESS CHALLENGE Currently Suncoke has a number of Oracle and SQL server databases, and spread sheets that they need to pull data from to create their reports. They are looking to get all of this information into one repository, so that it is easily accessible to stakeholders for the company. This will allow those stakeholders to make better business decisions, and give them a better awareness of their business. Currently their system is not efficient, and they have purchased Cognos 10 but have not implemented it. Version 10 will give them the mobile device ability that they do not currently have. INTERNAL/EXTERNAL CUSTOMER Business stakeholders