Cognos TM1 Architect

• New development: Working with  technical manager, responsible for understanding and documenting business requirements, providing project plans for new implementation, develop, test and deploy solutions to prod environment following processes for tracking user requirements, project development status and testing and deploying solutions following change/release management process.
  
• Systems Testing and Deployment – Responsible for unit and system integration testing, coordinating with business users for user acceptance testing and getting sign off from business users to implement solutions in the production for any new enhancements or development following  change/release management process.
  
• Systems Support – Provide maintenance, enhancements and support of platform making sure the stability of applications is  maintained by resolving any data issues, user help tickets in timely manner and provide on-call availability for off-hour problem resolution.
  
• Environment Support - Maintenance of Non-prod and Prod Cognos environments making sure the stability of these environments is always maintained by applying any required patching and upgrades as required.
  
• System administration - Provide system administration for installation and configurations of different components of Cognos platform, upgrades and responsible to maintain and establish user accounts, security profiles, controlling access to applications and reports following the process.
  
• Troubleshooting and Problem Management and Resolution - Logging, documenting, tracking and resolving system problems while ensuring ongoing data integrity with any and all interfaces and/or systems.
  
• Disaster Recovery Support – Defining, in conjunction with the client, the scope of periodic disaster recovery tests.  Coordinating with other staff and third parties to ensure all required tasks are covered for these tests.
  
• Documentation and Training  - Responsible for providing all documentation needed for the continued operation and management of the system and for any new implementations that is accurate and available and in compliance with Standards. Provide training to end users on any new functionality of the application or platform by providing user guides.
  

Requirements

• Minimum 12 years of experience in development and maintenance of TM1 applications    using 11.2 or higher version by understanding business requirements.
  
• Extensive hands-on experience Cognos TM1 (Perspective, Architect, Performance Modeler & contributor web).
  
• Experience in development of complex TI processes/chores, building web sheets (Static and Active forms), web applications, rules and workflows.
  
• Experience in setting up data, application, and object level security.
  
• Experience in installation and configuration of Cognos TM1 and BI tools.
  
• Expertise knowledge in writing SQL and any other scripting languages.
  
• Experience in documenting functional and technical design.
  
• Good knowledge of Finance modules like General Ledger, Accounts Payable and Receivable, Fixed Assets and so on.
  
• Excellent communications, presentation skills with ability to interact at all levels of the organization on a regular basis.
  
• Bachelor's degree in computer science/engineering or related fields.
  
• Certification in Cognos or any related area is preferred.