Cognos Architect/Developer

Companies across the tri-state area have sought out MODIS to deliver skilled, dedicated IT professionals. We always seek to deliver competitive and sought-after career opportunities to our potential consultants and employees. We are currently seeking a Cognos Architect/Developer for our client in Jersey City, NJ. We invite you to review the position requirements below and apply today if your skills match our need.

Position Type:  Contract
Position Duration: 6 months
Description:

Cognos Architect and Hands on Developer
Senior Cognos Architect and hands on Cognos developer for the Regulatory Reporting ETL based Data Warehouse System.
Experience in designing, developing, and testing Cognos applications. Performs analysis of business models, logical specifications and/or user requirements to design solutions for the application environment. Understands the various business requirements and system constraints to architect the Cognos reporting functionality for various user group needs. Can design an entire system configuration including hardware, software, and communications. Can lead a tool evaluation effort, including the definition of the evaluation criteria, identification of tools to be evaluated, and the actual evaluation. Can work with various platforms, including mainframes, minis and micros. Can define a total disaster recovery plan and present the client with various options. Applies, as appropriate, activity and data modeling, transaction/workflow analysis, internal control and risk analysis and modern business methods, and performance measurement techniques. Provides technical direction to personnel performing systems analysis and system/ subsystem development tasks. Coordinates and performs logical and physical systems design. Reviews and prepares system documents and specifications. Prepares reports, studies, and documentation, delivers presentations, and participates in meetings.

The successful candidate will have most of the following experience and qualifications:
be an experienced Cognos Architect to manage all Cognos development tasks
be an expert hands on Cognos developer
be skilled in Cognos Design and Architecture
be an approachable and knowledgeable mentor to our other developers
be able to communicate clearly and effectively with the development team, management, business users, other IT systems owners, and DA/DBA groups
be able to take a holistic view of the problem and see the big picture
be able to assign development tasks and monitor, improve, and report on the Cognos development process / progress
be experienced with Autosys (including jils), testing methodology, plus application building, packaging, and deployment
be experienced with data architecture and modeling
be an SQL expert
Analyzes in detail functional business applications and design specifications
experience in an insurance project especially with P&C products especially Commercial Auto is a PLUS

Responsibilities:
Responsible for all technical tasks related to Cognos Reporting, partner system IT teams and CTO support teams
Responsible for authoring the Detailed Design Specifications and other PMO defined artifacts
Responsible and accountable for Technical Design definition and implementation
Conduct all technical discussions and manage execution of all technical tasks
Responsible for managing Cognos Environments for code development and code promotion
Responsible for code promotion as per change management procedures.
Responsible for providing effective system solutions for technical issues identified during and post development phase
Responsible for managing technical deliverables as per time boxed schedule defined for the project deliverable
Responsible for active participation in testing to provide quick system solutions for the critical issues; Manage quick and accurate implementation of approved business/system resolution
Responsible for providing technical tasks status on a weekly basis.

If youre available and interested please send your word formatted resume and rate expectations to John.Jordan@Modis.com.
 

Please refer to job code 11159781 when responding to this ad.

Category:	Information Technology
	> Programmer
Location:	Jersey City, NJ
County:	Hudson County
ZIP Code:	07097
Pay Rate:	competitive
Job Terms:	full time
Company:	Modis Inc
Phone:	732-562-0100
Fax:	732-562-8911