Role: BI Developer & Administrator
Location: London (3 days a week)
Employment: Fulltime
Summary
We are looking for an experienced BI Developer & Administrator with strong hands-on expertise in IBM Cognos Analytics, covering both development and administration activities. The candidate should also have working experience in Tableau/Alteryx/both, including development, administration, production support, monitoring, and troubleshooting.
The role will involve end-to-end support of BI platforms, including report/dashboard development, platform administration, deployments, security management, performance tuning, incident resolution, and environment maintenance.
Details
Mandatory / Primary
- Strong hands-on experience with IBM Cognos Analytics.
- Strong experience in Cognos Development and Administration.
- Cognos report development and troubleshooting.
- Framework Manager/metadata modelling knowledge.
- Cognos security, users, groups, roles, and permissions.
- Report scheduling, jobs, deployments, and environment management.
- Performance monitoring and troubleshooting.
- Strong SQL and relational database knowledge.
- Production support and incident-management experience.
Secondary
- Candidate should have working experience in at least one of the following:
Tableau
- Tableau report/dashboard development
- Tableau Server/Cloud administration
- User/security management
- Publishing and deployments
- Extract/schedule monitoring
- Performance troubleshooting
- and/or
- Alteryx
- Alteryx workflow development
- Alteryx Server/Gallery administration
- Workflow scheduling and monitoring
- User/access management
- Workflow troubleshooting and optimization
Good to Have
- Experience supporting multiple BI/reporting platforms.
- Experience with Windows/Linux server environments.
- Database experience such as SQL Server, Oracle, Snowflake, or similar enterprise databases.
- Understanding of ETL/Data Warehouse concepts.
- Scripting or automation knowledge using PowerShell, Python, Shell, or similar technologies.
- Experience with ITIL-based Incident, Problem, Change, and Release Management processes.
- Experience working in enterprise production-support environments.
Functional / Behavioural Skills
- Strong analytical and troubleshooting skills.
- Ability to independently investigate complex production issues.
- Good communication and stakeholder-management skills.
- Ability to work with development, infrastructure, database, networking, and business teams.
- Strong documentation and knowledge-sharing capabilities.
- Ability to manage multiple incidents and priorities simultaneously.
- Willingness to participate in production-support and critical-incident activities when required.
