Cognos TM1 Architect

Client Name: Transportation Client
Start Date: September 15, 2025
End Date: December 31, 2027
Contract Length (in weeks): 120

DESCRIPTION OF WORK (SCOPE OF WORK)

ERAD currently hosts Cognos and Microsoft Power Platform technologies to provide data, reporting and application development to various departments in an Agency. It is anticipated that this platform will be exploited to a much greater extent in the near future to address all aspects of corporate reporting needs and application development which enables the organization to make decisions that achieve better outcomes, flexible deployment options, and to enable to easily scale analytics to meet changing business needs.
The successful candidate may work independently as well as with both consultant and staff resources of different units and departments throughout the Agency under the direction of project manager to deliver work projects including but not limited to:

JOB RESPONSIBILITIES:

• 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 EXPERIENCE AND QUALIFICATIONS:

• 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.