Cognos BI Developer Contract

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Client: Ministry of Health
Location: Kingston, ON (hybrid)
Role: Cognos BI Developer
Term: 256 working days + extensions
Rate: Open DOE
Start date: 2/3 weeks
Req ID: 5726
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Requirements: What you’ll need

Skills, Knowledge, Experience, and Qualifications
Deliverables:

• Analysis of business requirement documents and liaison with clients.
• Facilitating IT development, design, construction, testing, promotion, implementation of web-based/n-tier, cloud-based and mainframe applications
• Define standards for the integration and governance of enterprise data
• Design metadata management programs and scripts
• Define and evaluate conceptual, logical, and physical BI solution architectures
• Design healthcare business information structures (cubes, dimensions, facts, tables, etc.)
• Perform data quality assessments, data transformation, and data cleansing
• Develop test scripts and perform testing of BI solutions
• Responsible for Java based development utilizing a combination of WebSphere, JDBC, Oracle, DB2, DataPower and associated Web technologies including JavaScript and JSP
• Responsible for in integration of Open Source Software (OSS) products into new and existing systems
• Creation and walk-through of Systems Response documents, Technical Specifications, Application Inventory, and Implementation Plans.
• Preparation of test plans, test data, and unit-testing of programs.
• Preparation of implementation plans and promotion of programs.
• System Support/Documentation
• As assigned, response to client queries and troubleshooting of production incidents.
• Conduct/participate in design walkthroughs as well as test case and test results walkthroughs.
• Support testing of the changes by other team members.
• Weekly reporting on status, progress, and key issue/concerns as directed by the Project Lead/Project Manager or Portfolio Manger

Skills
Experience and Skill Set Requirements

Technical Skills 50%

• 5 + more years of business intelligence experience
• 5 + years of Cognos experience
• 5+ years – Framework Manager and Report Studio
• 5+ years – Active Reports, Transformer and dashboarding
• 5+ years – Report Studio (including being a trainer/mentor)
• 3+ years – Metrics Studio
• 5 years data analysis experience
• IBM Certified Designer – Cognos 11.2.1 BI Reports
• IBM Certified Developer – Cognos 11.2.1 BI Metadata Models
• IBM Certified Administrator – Cognos 11.2.1 BI
• Experience in facilitating workshops with diverse groups of stakeholders (e.g. technical, clinical, executive)
• Experience evaluating design options to support the implementation of a system;
• Preparation of automated deployment builds (Jenkins)
• Experience in structured, agile and DevOp methodologies for the development, design, implementation and maintenance of applications.
• Experience with one or more platforms, including the operating system, database technology, communication protocols, middleware and gateways
• Experience developing or maintaining large scale IT systems, including high-volume public facing programs
• Development and design of new programs or enhancements to existing ones
• Integration of service API’s and micro-services to existing or new web services.
• Ability to understand and analyze business requirements, and to design structured programs that efficiently satisfy these requirements
• Ability to write programs that are modular, well-structured, and easy to maintain
• Demonstrated success writing system design and implementation documents
• Experience with, and understanding of, relational databases (DB2, Oracle, MS-SQL)
• Preparation of test plans, test data, and unit-testing of programs
• Preparation of implementation plans and promotion of modules
• Participate in business requirements walkthroughs
• Conduct/participate in design walkthroughs
• Conduct/participate in testing walkthroughs

Analytical Skills 35%

• Analysis of business requirement documents and liaison with clients
• Experience adopting and adhering to unified I&IT project management methodologies, enterprise architecture and gating frameworks, and standard systems development methodologies.
• Respond to client queries and troubleshooting of production incidents Proven and demonstrable troubleshooting and analytical experience.

Communications Skills 15%

· Strong verbal and written communications skills.
· Strong Interpersonal and negotiation skills.
· Strong consulting skills to engage with all stakeholders.
· A demonstrated team player with a track record for meeting deadlines.
· Demonstrated success in working productively with business clients, developers, and technical specialists such as DBAs, web administrators, etc.
· Demonstrated experience reporting status, progress, and key issue/concerns to project managers and leads.

Must haves:

• 5 + more years of business intelligence experience
• 5 + years of Cognos experience
• 5+ years – Framework Manager and Report Studio
• IBM Certified Designer – Cognos 11.2.1 BI Reports
• IBM Certified Developer – Cognos 11.2.1 BI Metadata

HOW TO APPLY

Please apply for this opportunity by sending your resume directly to patrick@wirehead.com

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