Cognos Platform Architect (Plano)

Role : Cognos Platform Architect

Location : Pennington, NJ / Charlotte, NC / Plano, TX (Onsite)

Duration : Full Time

Job Description :

Must Have Technical / Functional Skills

This is for a position for Lead Cognos Platform Architect / Administrator to manage Cognos Analytics Enterprise shared environment on legacy and containerized environment.

Role is responsible for designing go-live strategy, capacity planning, performance monitoring, diagnosing complex issues, performing complex upgrades, and carrying out deployments. This role would support platform which server 9 K + users

Proven Experience with deploying Cognos Analytics on Openshift or Kubernetes (Red Hat OpenShift preferred)

Experience with customization and versioning of Cognos container images

Experience in Data Analysis, IBM Cognos development, Modelling , ETL concepts, SQL , Oracle , Containerization, Cubes Cognos Administration on V12

Redhat / OpenShift Certification and IBM Certified Administration V12x

Experience using Cognos analytics APIs for Administration / Automation

Advance understanding of Databases such as SQL server, Oracle, DB2 and PostgresSQL

Familiar with monitoring / logging tools such as Openshift Monitoring, Splunk, Dynatrace

Experience with tuning Cognos Performance within a containerized environment / high availability

Experience connecting cognos Analytics to wide variety of files, relational and bigdata based data sources

Self starter with innovative edge with strong communication

Familiarity with Dynamic Cubes, Data Modules, Framework Manager and Report Server configuration

Experience with CI / CD pipelines

Knowledge of networking , TLS / SSL configuration , load balancing and reverse proxies

Roles & Responsibilities :

As Cognos Analytics Architect, you will design, implement and oversee efficient operating strategy for Cognos Center of Excellence with focus on long term scalability collaborating with other architects.

As IBM Cognos Analytics subject matter expert , you will advise / educate internal stakeholders about Cognos, Architecture blueprints and best practices.

Identify areas of opportunities and create project plans to accomplish team objectives with team collaboration.

Monitor / maintain / plan platform usage metrics using Python frameworks

Automate Cognos Administration with Cognos APIs or Python

Analyzing usage patterns and anticipate workload to plan capacity

Assist and provide guidance to migrate reports from other platforms such as SSRS. Tableau, Cognos, MicroStrategy, Excel

Mentor junior team members and Cognos Analytics developers

Keep ab reast of recent changes in Cognos Analytics

PMP Certification and proven experience with managing large infrastructure projects is desired.