Cognos Report Engineer

Purview Services; Pune District; On-site; INR 900,000 - 1,300,000; Full time

Job summary

Purview Services in Pune, India is seeking a Cognos Report Engineer with 5–7 years of IBM Cognos development experience and IBM OpenPages. You will design and develop Cognos Analytics dashboards and reports, validate data against requirements, and collaborate in an agile environment.

You should have strong Oracle SQL skills and experience creating data visualizations for non-technical users, with familiarity with OpenPages data model. Jenkins and shell scripting are advantageous.

Qualifications

• 5 to 7 year IBM Cognos development experience with IBM Open Pages
• Excellent knowledge of Oracle SQL Cognos
• Strong communication skills
• Ability to design and develop Cognos Analytics dashboards and active reports
• Ability to apply agile development practices to requirements gathering and product development
• Ability to validate data and visualizations against requirements and source data
• Ability to design data visualizations for consumption by nontechnical users
• Ability to use SQL for selecting, summarizing and reporting on data from a structured database
• Working experience in creating Cognos reports over IBM OpenPages Data Model
• Working in Agile framework
• Strong technical concepts to help team deliver the technical design solutions

Responsibilities

• Gather and refine user requirements with customers
• Design, develop and maintain Cognos dashboards, reports and metrics
• Ensure data validation against source data throughout the lifecycle of reports
• Collaborate with Product Owner and Architects to identify changes and write stories
• Propose logical, innovative solutions to complex problems
• Promote automation to optimize development and deployment lifecycles
• Coordinate with Agile Lead to ensure smooth backlog flow

Skills

IBM Cognos

Cognos Analytics

Oracle SQL

Agile methodologies

Data visualization

Requirements gathering

Nontechnical user communication

Tools

Jenkins

Shell scripting

OpenPages

EDW concepts

Job description

Cognos Report Engineer

Essential Skills

5 to7 year IBM Cognos development experience with IBM Open Pages

Excellent knowledge of Oracle SQL Cognos

Strong communication skills

Ability to design and develop Cognos Analytics dashboards and active reports

Ability to apply agile development practices to requirements gathering and product development

Ability to validate data and visualizations against requirements and source data

Ability to design data visualizations for consumption and understanding by nontechnical users

Ability to use SQL for selecting summarizing and reporting on data from a structured database

Working Experience in creating Cognos reports over IBM OpenPages Data Model

Working in Agile framework

Strong technical concepts to help team deliver the technical design solutions

Good to have

Experience on OpenPages Configurations Development

Experience in DevOps CICD tools eg Jenkins

Experience on batch jobs shell scripting

Responsibilities

Responsible for working with customers to gatherrefine user requirements validating requirements using agile development practices to build design and build to the requirements test and verify that product conforms to requirements and ensure customer acceptance after delivery

Using Cognos builds reports dashboards and metrics in EDW Develops and maintains data catalogues data cubes queries and reports

Maintain quality of Cognos products ensuring consistent validation against source data and requirements through Lifecyle of the reportdashboardmetric

Work with the Product Owner Solution Platform Architects to identify changes required create agree necessary stories

Identify options creating logical innovative solutions to complex problems

Ensures the level of automation within the team is optimised at all times reducing the need for human intervention in the design development and operational lifecycles including decisions on tooling to achieve optimal performance

Work with the Agile Lead to ensure efficient flow of the backlog of change activities