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Location: New York City Duration: 6 months Best rate: Market In-Person interview may be required!! LOCALS PREFERRED. Description: Please see below new open requisition for Cognos Architect for a sales pipeline opportunity for January start. Role: Senior Business Intelligence Architect with Cognos Job location preference: NY Metro area Ø Responsible for providing a detailed technical design for enterprise solutions. Ø Is usually the Principal Consultant who analyzes and develops enterprise technology solutions. Ø Regularly leads large cross functional teams to include technical management of client staff assigned to implementation team in the completion of one or more solution requirements, architecture, or implementation deliverables. Ø Provides the technical direction required to resolve complex issues to ensure the on-time delivery of solutions that meet customer expectations. Ø May need to develop new methods to apply to situations. Ø Provides advanced technical consulting and advice to proposal efforts, solution design. Provides consulting advice to customer senior Information Technology (IT) leadership and sets strategic direction for customers based on CLIENT's solutions and products. Ø Works with peers outside immediate organization to define and characterize complex technology or process problems and/or develops new solutions, yet works independently to drive technical problems to a solution. Ø Produces strategies which assist CLIENT in becoming No. 1 in the market place. Ø Actively participates in CLIENT professions program and Practice Improvement activities. Role models knowledge sharing and Re-use within practice or profession. Ø Proactively encourages Leads technically significant work on enterprise scale projects. Ø Is recognized by peers as an expert in a particular area of technology. Ø Sustained and consistent contribution at the region level. Education and Experience Required: Ø 12+ years of professional experience and a Master of Arts/Science or equivalent degree in computer science or related area of study; without a Masters degree, three additional years of relevant professional experience (15+ years in total). Ø Must have 5+ years and hands on expert level expertise in designing, developing and testing Cognos Business Intelligence Series 8. Specifically implementing Framework Manager and Report Studio. Experience with Query Studio, Analysis Studio, Metric Studio and Event Studio is also required but not directly needed immediately. Ø Architectural knowledge of establishing and implementing BI environments, specifically Cognos. Ø Can outline best practices used in implementing multiple Cognos solutions. Ø Data architecture and modeling experience implementing proper data structures for a reporting solution from an enterprise data warehouse a must using tools such as Cognos. Full comprehension of SQL, cardinality, levels of granularity, normalized vs denormalized, database and tool optimization techniques and other such reporting data architecture best practices is required. Ø Full understanding and experience in implanting an data warehouse is required. Candidate must be able to outline the architecture and understand the benefits of data warehousing. Ø Expertise in multiple tools preferred including Business Objects and MicroStrategy. Ø Must have outstanding communication skills and be able to effectively speak with C-level to analyst level business personnel at clients or in sales calls. Must be able to think quickly on their feet when discussions go against expected directions. Must be able to effectively communicate technical architecture details of Cognos and other parts of the BI solution to technologist. Preferred skills: Ø Include use of Cognos with Erwin, code management tool such as Subversion, Graphical Information System (GIS) such as Map Info, Cognos portal customization techniques and SDK implementation. Ø Experience in Banking and Financial Services preferred, especially Capital Markets and Prime Brokerage. Ø Must have strong project and team leadership skills, leading a combination of onsite, off site and off shore teams. Ø Full understanding and experience in implementing the SDLC. Can lead teams through requirements through production release. Has a unique perspective to fully understand what users are needing not what they are asking for and can offer techniques to succeed here. Knowledge and Skills Required: Ø Demonstrates ability to develop solutions that can be used at multiple customer sites to enhance the availability, performance, maintainability and agility of their enterprise. Ø Develops reusable solutions and workarounds that are innovative and demonstrate a deep technical knowledge of the affected products, processes, and the customer environment. Ø Breadth of knowledge covers additional business units, third parties, competitors, and business drivers. Ø Recognized as an advanced subject matter expert of Information Technology (IT) products, applied technologies and processes, combining vendor interoperability knowledge pertaining to complex IT infrastructures. Ø May define interoperability issues between vendors' products. Ø Is a recognized expert in one or more technologies across a CLIENT Services (CLIENTS) region. Ø Holds a vendor or industry certification in more than one discipline area. Regularly represents CLIENTS at industry recognized technical events. Ø Has performed troubleshooting across a number of significant multi-vendor products. Ø Has demonstrated innovation and ability to communicate new offerings across multiple business units. Has led a cross functional team in the delivery of multiple solutions across multiple technologies. Ø Ability to operate and present at all levels, and in public forums, to facilitate business discussions, and controls and leads those discussions. Ø Demonstrates ability to represent the whole organization within a customer sales presentation, conveying the benefits of working with the business. Ø Ability to lead production of proposals, working across departments, for complex customer solutions. Ø Able to lead, coach and mentor others in consulting skills. Ø Demonstrates ability to develop and win new opportunities through application of consulting skills. Maintains and develops client engagements which are strategic. Ø Ability to relate risks and challenges with other client efforts. Ø Ability to develop detailed project plans and work breakdown structures. Ø Ability to develop Architecture Specification deliverables that map customer business requirements to technologies. Thanks & Regards, Angela Thomas Account Manager Data Group Inc [email protected] www.datagroupinc.net Certified MWBE & SBE Company -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "SAP ABAP" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sap-abap?hl=en.
