Cognos Specialist

Tharseo IT is a veteran led minority owned Oracle partner focused on providing the government and higher education communities exceptional ERP migration and modernization services to OCI. Our vision is to be a leader in Oracle Cloud technology solutions and services delivering unparalleled value to our clients worldwide. We aim to create a future where organizations can leverage the power of the cloud to innovate optimize and transform their agency or higher education institution while enjoying exceptional customer service and support.

As a Cognos Specialist you will be responsible for designing developing and implementing various enterprise reporting solutions. You will primarily manage and support the Cognos environment and have handson significant working knowledge. Success in this role depends on strong technical creative and analytical skills as well as excellent communications in order to codify customer requirements and develop outstanding solutions.

What youll be doing:

• Ensure adequate performance and minimal downtime of Cognos portals.

• Enhance visual presentation of current reporting solutions.

• Ensure production issues and tickets within Cognos environment are resolved in a timely manner.

• Data modeling and package creation in Framework Manager.

• Assist novice report authors in writing reports.

• Willingness and aptitude to learn new tools and support other BI solutions and data analytics efforts.

What youll need:

• Bachelor degree in related field or a combination of experience and certification to substitute for degree.

• At least 3 years of experience with Cognos.

• Advanced skills using Cognos Report Studio Query Studio Active Reports and Business Insight Advanced.

• Strong skills with Microsoft Office suite (Word Excel PowerPoint SharePoint Visual Studio and Visio).

• Demonstrated experience and ability to work with business users to gather requirements and manage scope.

• Expertlevel knowledge of SQL stored procedures views and triggers.

• Expertise in the preparation of the architecture and design of data integration strategies and the implementation of data stores.

• Experience with SQL Server Oracle and proprietary databases including OLAP cubes.

• Detail oriented with strong analytical and problem solving skills; excellent communication skills.

• Experience training end users or technical support staff to use programs.

Whats nice to have:

• Knowledge and experience with Cognos TM1 and Cognos SDK.

• Other BI tools experience such as Qlikview Tableau Spotfire etc.

• Knowledge and experience using ETL tools.

• Knowledge of Delteks Costpoint and Time & Expense applications.

• Knowledge of Infors Lawson Talent Management (LTM) application.

Our Mission: We are dedicated to promoting diversity and creating a sense of belonging within our organization. Inclusion and diversity are at the core of our culture and values and make us more innovative and creative in serving our clients and communities.

Compensation: At Tharseo IT we honor your contributions and support your wellbeing. Our offerings include health insurance retirement benefits paid leave career development employee referral bonus and flexible remote schedule. Fulltime and parttime employees working at least 20 hours a week on a regular basis are eligible to participate in Tharseo ITs benefit programs.