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.
Platform Architect • Plano, TX, US