Cognos Administrator BI

Job Title: Cognos Administrator with BI

Location: Arlington Heights, IL

Duration: Long Term

Employment Type: C2C/W2

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• Expert knowledge of Cognos software administration, planning and reporting
• Responsible for installing, upgrading, maintaining and administering Cognos suite of products
• Identifies, researches and resolves technical problems
• Support a distributed Cognos reporting environment infrastructure, configuration and management on a Linux/Unix environment
• Ensure maintenance and security control of all the Cognos products and solutions
• Handle several projects at a time and complete them successfully through 'Cognos Administration' tool Monitor the Cognos environment and check the usage of the environment, reports, etc.
• Manage users using appropriate Active Directory Groups and assigning security as needed
• Provide 24 x 7 on-call rotational support including troubleshooting and issue resolution
• Should have experience in managing Disaster Recovery (DR)
• Knowledge of Cognos Report Studio, Query Studio, Analysis Studio, Active Reports and Metric Studio
• Knowledge of additional BI and visualization reporting tools is a plus such as Tableau & Qlikview/Qliksense
• Knowledge of Finance industry – especially Banking sector is good
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills with the ability to establish deep understanding of client's business issues

All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.