Businesses face challenges every day building responsive and agile IT capabilities to grow and stay ahead. Since everyone has access to the same tools, your competitive advantage directly depends on how you apply technology – on the people leading, supporting and optimizing your IT initiatives. USM Business Systems, established in 1999, is an industry-leading private talent management firm, specializing in providing unique IT turnkey solutions, IT staffing solutions, and Talent management insights, enabling you to sustain a truly competitive advantage in this fast-moving environment. USM has offices throughout the US and offshore delivery centers in India. USM is a certified Minority Business Enterprise and is a CMMi Level 3 Organization.

USM is recognized as one of the fastest growing IT Temporary Staffing firms in the US and most recently was ranked #3 on the list of the Top Temporary Staffing firms in the DC Metro Area – Washington Business Journal (2016).

Position Title: Cognos Developer

Location: Vienna, VA

Duration: 3 Months+

Need GC and USC

Need Locals

Cognos Developer Detailed Job Description:

Design, development, implementation and support of Cognos reports including Cognos active reports/dashboards.

Gather requirements and design, develop, test and implement Cognos packages and reports/ dashboards.

Provide assistance to maintain Cognos system and existing packages/reports.

Responsibilities:

Translate business requirements into specifications that will be used to implement reports and dashboards.

Provide support as required to ensure the availability and performance of developed reports/dashboards.

Ensure proper configuration management and change controls are implemented

Provide technical assistance and cross training to other team members.

Provide training and assistance to users for generation of adhoc reports

Design and implement technology best practices, guidelines and repeatable processes

Required Qualifications:

7+ years’ experience developing and implementing enterprise-scale reports and dashboards

. 5+ years’ experience using Framework Manager, experienced with dimensional modeling and data warehouse.

Proficiency with Cognos Report Studio.

Performance tuning experience related to reporting queries required.

Understanding of data integration issues (validation and cleaning), familiarity with complex data and structures.

Excellent interpersonal (verbal and written) communication skills.

Programming / scripting experience and knowledge of software development life cycle.

Ability to manage multiple priorities, and assess and adjust quickly to changing priorities.

Education Required: BA/BS in Computer Science or related field is preferable.

Equivalent combination of experience, education and training will be considered

Certifications Required: Cognos certifications desirable

If you are interested in the below position please forward your profile to preethib@usmsystems(dot)com or call me on 703 468 0398.