Length:6+ months Job Responsibilities Support a business intelligence environment using Cognos & other IBM products Troubleshooting of report issues and performance issues are critical Work with DBAs, report writers and system administrators to track down and improve or eliminate bottlenecks in the BI reporting & ETL environment Provide technical support to the Cognos report writers Required Skills: Cognos 10, Transformer, Framework Manager, Report Studio, Query Studio, Analysis Studio, Event Studio, Oracle 11g, Relational, OLAP, Star Schema, Multi-dimensional database models. Qualifications Bachelor's Degree or higher in Computer Science or closely related discipline Hands-on development and implementation of Cognos 10 BI suite of tools. Must have strong understanding of DW processes and OLAP concepts, with star schema data models. Experience with administration and security setups within Cognos. Strong experience in creating OLAP Cubes using Cognos Transformer Strong experience in creating Framework models with different layers. Strong experience in creating advanced reports in Report Studio and Analysis Studio. Experience with building Dashboards and Scorecards. Experience with Cognos Workspace Advanced and Active Reports. Experience and Proficiency in writing Oracle SQL queries. Good understanding of Java scripts usage in Cognos. Must have excellent analytical, conceptual, troubleshooting, and problem-solving skills. Excellent communications skills, able to work effectively with business users to understand and clarify requirements as well as educate and resolve end user reporting issues. Some knowledge of Oracle DB Administration 6-8 years of Cognos BI experience. Preferred Qualifications IBM Certified Solution Expert - Cognos BI Experience with ETL tools like DataStage is a plus.