Cognos Platform Architect
Pennington, NJ / Charlotte, NC / Plano, TX – Onsite
Full-Time Permanent
Job Description
Cognos Platform Architect
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, Cube’s 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 frameworksAutomate Cognos Administration with Cognos APIs or PythonAnalyzing usage patterns and anticipate workload to plan capacityAssist and provide guidance to migrate reports from other platforms such as SSRS. Tableau, Cognos, MicroStrategy, ExcelMentor junior team members and Cognos Analytics developersKeep ab reast of recent changes in Cognos AnalyticsPMP Certification and proven experience with managing large infrastructure projects is desired.Please Note : Centraprise is an equal opportunity employer. Applicants must be authorized to work in the U.S.
U.S. Citizens and Green Card holders are strongly encouraged to apply.