Sr. Cognos Admin

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Job Description:

Seeking an experienced Cognos Administrator to support and maintain their enterprise Business Intelligence environment. This individual will be responsible for the administration performance stability and ongoing enhancement of IBM Cognos Analytics while partnering with reporting developers data teams and business stakeholders to deliver reliable reporting solutions.

• Administer maintain and support IBM Cognos Analytics environments including Development Test Production and Disaster Recovery.
• Lead and support Cognos upgrades including Cognos v11 migrations and enhancements.
• Monitor system performance troubleshoot issues and optimize platform stability and scalability.
• Manage software installation configuration security licensing deployments and environment maintenance.
• Provide technical support and guidance to reporting developers and business users.
• Participate in business continuity disaster recovery change management incident management and problem resolution activities.
• Collaborate with Data Warehouse Infrastructure Application Development and Business teams to deliver reporting and analytics solutions.
• Develop and maintain documentation best practices standards and operational procedures.
• Support production environments including occasional on-call responsibilities.
• Recommend system improvements and new capabilities to enhance reporting and analytics performance.

• 5 7 years of experience designing developing administering and supporting Business Intelligence platforms.
• Strong hands-on experience administering IBM Cognos Analytics.
• Experience with Cognos v11 upgrades and migrations.
• Experience with system performance monitoring tuning troubleshooting and environment management.
• Knowledge of security administration software deployments and BI platform governance.
• Experience supporting enterprise reporting environments within Data Warehouse and Operational Data Store ecosystems.
• Strong analytical problem-solving and communication skills.

• Power BI Administration and/or Development experience.
• Experience supporting large-scale enterprise analytics environments.
• Familiarity with ITIL processes including Change Management Configuration Management Incident Management and Problem Management.
• Experience working with cross-functional business and technical teams.