Beschreibung
Bosshard & Partner is looking with Mandate 2666for an IBM Cognos TM1 Development Expert (f/m)
Project environment
A Swiss Insurance Company.
Tasks
• This position will provide strong development expertise to IT to facilitate and manage the design, development, enhancement and support for planning related Cognos TM1 software development projects.
• The position will be hands on with software code as well as interacting and supervising contract resources developing and supporting software code.
• The candidate will enhance current solutions as part of the second phase of a development project as well as participate in the development projects of an entirely new TM1 planning and performance management solution enabling more effective and efficient planning at company level.
• In addition to development, this role will be responsible for ensuring the availability and performance of the overall enterprise planning platform.
• Furthermore, this position will provide Level 3 support of operational, administrative and break / fix TM1 issues.
Responsibilities
• Work with business customers, IT Project Managers and Business Systems Analysts to analyze information needs and functional requirements and design TM1 solutions to meet business needs. Clarify requirements as needed to support sound technical development principles.
• Work with Business System Analysts to ensure high level designs including architecture requirements are accurately documented and mapped to approve requirements. Communicate technical concepts back to business to verify requirements through presentations, excel examples and other prototypes.
• Understand and document data calculation and data validation requirements.
• Collaborate with external development partners to incorporate TM1 development best practices into application design and development. Perform technical development activities especially around high technical complexity.
• Prepare and present architecture, design and code reviews to ensure technical artifacts meet Finance IT and Swiss Re standards.
• Develop plans and conduct tests to ensure application performance meets business requirements.
• Work with TM1 architects to ensure applications will fit within development, test and production infrastructure footprint and meet best practices and standards for common areas including security, backup, integrations and use of Master Data Management.
• Participate in business requirements reviews for enhancements and provide feedback to ensure requirements can be incorporated as best as possible into existing application design.
Requirements
• BA/BS degree in Computer Science/ IT or related field.
• 3-5 years of experience in design and development of Cognos TM1 applications, experience with version 10.1 required, experience with version 10.2 highly desired.
• Proficient in coding TM1 Rules, Turbo Integrator (ETL), TM1 Web, and MDX as well as all TM1 administration functions and best practices.
• Experienced with using TM1 in conjunction with DB2.
• Strong knowledge of IBM Cognos BI, Windows server administration and scripting, and TM1 API development.
• Experienced with TM1 server maintenance, environment setup, cube design, and application design.
• Integration with data warehousing and MDM solutions.
• Knowledge of planning, budgeting, and forecasting functions and business processes.
• Good data modeling experience and familiar with Data Warehouse best practices.
• Relational database development and design knowledge - very strong DB2, SQL skills.
• Cognos TM1 Developer and User Certifications preferred.
Soft skills
• Strong verbal and written communication skills (German and English) and the ability to interact professionally with a diverse group of business and technology managers and subject matter experts.
• Strong analytical skills and critical thinking required, including demonstrated ability to interpret customer business needs and translate them into application and operational requirements.
Workload: 100%
Start Date: asap
Duration: 12 months (extension possible)
Workplace: Zurich
Did we gain your interest? Please do not hesitate to contact Mr Thomas Bigler at or