Senior Cognos Developer & Administrator

Senior Cognos Developer & Administrator

Malvern, PA, US

Seeking a Senior Cognos Developer/Admin with strong SQL expertise and hands-on Cognos Administration experience. Responsible for developing enterprise reporting solutions while maintaining Cognos platform stability, security, and performance. Ideal candidate has experience in Cognos Development and Administration within large enterprise environments.

• Develop and maintain Cognos reports, dashboards, and Framework Manager models.
• Create reusable, high-performance reporting solutions.
• Build pixel-perfect, burst reports, drill-throughs, and dashboards.
• Optimize report and query performance.
• Develop and maintain metadata models, packages, and data layers.
• Gather requirements and translate business needs into reporting solutions.

• Develop complex SQL queries, views, and stored procedures.
• Perform query tuning and execution plan analysis.li>
• Work with large enterprise datasets.
• Design efficient reporting data models and determine optimal placement of business logic.

• Administer Cognos Dev, QA, and Prod environments.
• Manage security, LDAP/AD integration, roles, permissions, and data sources.
• Monitor platform health, performance, scheduling, and report execution.
• Support deployments, migrations, upgrades, and content store management.
• Troubleshoot platform, security, and report-related issues.

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field.
• Strong expertise in ALL BELOW WITH Cognos Version 12 and Higher:
• Cognos Analytics
• Framework Manager
• Report Development & Dashboarding
• Cognos Administration
• Advanced SQL (Oracle, SQL Server, PostgreSQL, Redshift).
• Experience with AWS environments.
• Strong performance tuning and troubleshooting skills.
• Experience supporting large-scale enterprise reporting platforms.

• Financial Services / Asset Management experience.
• Cognos migrations, upgrades, and deployments.
• Power BI or Tableau exposure or AWS Quick Sight.
  
  - Nice to have
• ETL/Data Integration knowledge.
• Snowflake, Redshift, or cloud analytics experience.

• Long-Term Stability:
  Join us on a multi-year opportunities with room to grow.
• Comprehensive Health Coverage:
  Access quality healthcare benefits to keep you and your family well.
• Future Planning:
  Enroll in our 401(k) program and invest in your financial security.
• GC Assistance:
  We support immediate Green Card processing, if required.