Cognos Developer

  • Pune
  • Northern Trust

Job Description AND Principal Responsibilities


This role covers below responsibilities within Northern Trust :

  • support to the business and other IT teams to ensure stability of production systems.
  • priority incidents are being addressed in a timely manner to avoid major incidents
  • incidents/failures and ensure closure within the SLAs.
  • in root cause analysis and provide solution/work around for incidents.
  • issues , incidents and provide solutions for the same through hands on development.
  • seamless running of batch process/application through proactive, regular health checks .
  • scheduled weekend activities, participate in disaster recovery events and release testing events.
  • in engineering efforts for Business intelligence solutions i.e. system design , build, deployment, best practices and testing,.
  • change requests and collaborate with sr associate for approvals.
  • identify & implement opportunities to increase efficiency through automation & process efficiencies .
  • with upstream and downstream application teams proactively for any risks or potential issues.
  • support for audit and compliance related activities .
  • and communicate with global stakeholders, other IT teams, and business areas.
  • to work with vendors and support staff on support tickets and follow up regularly till resolution is found
  • be flexible to work in early APAC and EMEA time zones
  • be flexible for upskilling in different skill sets


Experience/ Skills

Minimum qualification:

  • Degree in computer science or engineering
  • years of extensive work experience in Power BI, Cognos

Required Skills

  • have extensive work experience in supporting reporting solutions ( including servers) in Power BI ,Cognos, Unix & SQL
  • on experience on control-M scheduling tool for batch monitoring
  • in backtracking and resolve reports issues and job performance issues
  • with or use of scripting (DOS/batch, PowerShell)
  • with ITSM Service now tool and Dynatrace will be needed.
  • understanding of ITIL Process guidelines, with specific focus on Service Operations and Incident Management.
  • to Agile practices ( Scrum /Kanban) is must .
  • to initiate actions and be responsible for consequent decisions.
  • programming and debugging skills.
  • analytical, design thinking and problem solving skills.
  • written/verbal communications skills.
  • interpersonal and teamwork skills.

Nice to Have Skills

  • of ETL tools , Azure data engineering , DataStage
  • on experience on ADO ( Azure Devops) .