Brown Brothers Harriman (BBH) is a privately-held financial institution and has been a thought leader and solutions provider for almost 200 years. We serve the most sophisticated individuals and institutions with award-winning expertise in Investment Management, Private Banking, and Investor Services. Our 5,000 colleagues operate from 17 cities throughout North America, Europe and Asia.
The Cognos Developer is responsible for analysis, design, development, testing, and implementation of the firm's Cognos Business Intelligence (BI) applications in support of the business needs of BBH's divisions and clients. S/he will join our CE Systems BI Reporting Group to build and support applications on the Cognos 10 BI platform. S/he will work with our internal and external clients to define and document business requirements and translate those requirements into applications in the appropriate Cognos 10 studio. S/he will collaborate with our DBAs, data modelers and administrators as necessary to define and develop new data elements in support of client requirements.
Areas of responsibility:
1. Application Development:
- Create and modify Cognos 8/10 objects in Report Studio, Query Studio and Workspace Advanced to meet client requirements and conform to departmental standards regarding documentation and structure that is reliable and easy to maintain.
- Create and/or modify Cognos 8/10 objects in Event Studio to support intelligent alerts to our users and clients.
- Analyze and classify change requests, identifying and documenting scope of change and impact on other reporting objects.
- Participate in walkthroughs which review report specs, reporting objects, all technical supporting documentation, including screens/reports: provide feedback in accordance with department standards and guidelines.
2. ClientUser Support:
- Support clients in using and developing their own reports in Query Studio and/or Workspace Advanced.
3.Testing:
- Develop unit test plans that will thoroughly exercise report logic to ensure Cognos application performance with regard to business requirements.
- Execute unit test plans, document test results and resolve discrepancies as deemed appropriate.
4.Other:
- Stay current on Cognos BI technologies and advances in the industry.
Education level and/or relevant experience(s) :
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Information Systems or equivalent work experience.
- 0.5 to 1 years application development experience.
Knowledge and skills:
- Minimum of 1 year of experience in developing Business Intelligence solutions in any BI platform.
- Experience in Cognos 8 or Cognos 10 will be considered an asset. The following studios are listed in order of importance.
- Report Studio
- Query Studio
- Workspace Advanced
- Event Studio
- Analysis Studio
- Ability to develop complex, highly formatted reports and dashboards including cascading prompts, drillthrough capability, and more.
- Ability to read, understand and debug complex SQL.
- Strong problem solving skills and communication skills (oral and written).
- Familiarity with Oracle database and/or DB2 is an asset.
- You must be fully fluent in English (other languages is an asset).
