Cognos BI Specialist – Level 3

Job Posting Title: Cognos BI Specialist – Level 3
Location: Toronto, ON
Duration: 8 months

Our public sector client is looking for a Cognos BI Specialist – Level 3. This resource will provide the Cloud and DevOps expertise to upgrade the current BI platform, to migrate from AIX to Linux, to integrate the two existing Cognos BI platforms, as well as enable system readiness for a Cloud implementation. 

The Business Intelligence Specialist (L3) resource is required to:

• Support the Business Intelligence and Business Analytics Unit in developing and implementing cloud based technical solutions needed as well as providing operational support ensuring that any technical anomalies can be quickly addressed.

• Design technical solutions for hosting Cognos solutions on Linux VM’s and cloud container-based platform.

• Develop detailed application design specifications, and conducting unit tests 

• Develop, test and implement the required technical solutions as well as ensure that the requirements in terms of data accuracy, quality are met

• Produce design artifacts and documentation which will allow future support of the implemented solutions

• Provide programming support for incident management, application functionality sustainment, performance tuning and technical documentation; translate technical specifications for integration/sustainment into working, tested application code; work to migrate and upgrade hosting of Cognos applications on to new platforms. 

• Provide the technical advice and implementation of Cloud-based BI solution