Flex-N-Gate is a leading manufacturer and supplier of components for the automotive industry, recently ranked 10th of the 150 Top North American Suppliers in “Automotive News.” A growing and vital company, Flex-N-Gate provides a great opportunity for hard-working and skilled individuals.
The primary role for the Cognos Developer is to design, develop, and implement various enterprise reporting solutions. The individual will primarily manage and support the Cognos BI environment. The successful candidate must possess hands-on, significant working knowledge of the IBM Cognos Analytics suite of components, especially Report Studio and Framework Manager. Success in this role depends on strong technical, creative and analytical skills, as well as excellent communications in order to codify customer requirements and develop outstanding solutions.
As part of the BI team, the candidate will generate reports as outlined as part of a project or per ad hoc user requests using Cognos. The individual codes, tests, debugs, and installs operating programs and procedures in coordination with our BI Team.
Primary responsibilities include:
- Maintain and enhance the Cognos Framework Models that are used to support all of the Cognos Content delivered to our end users.
- Responsible for developing and maintaining business report requests, dashboards, and dashboard widgets.
- Develop complex Cognos reports with an emphasis on accuracy and timely delivery.
- Partner with the Database Administrator, Cognos Administrator and IS support to assist in the verification and validation of reports and data.
- Work with users from a variety of business area’s in identifying and developing reports. Heavy emphasis placed on delivering results, working well across business and technical teams.
- Create and participate in user Training and Documentation.
- Must be able to Self-manage and multi task consistently in order to prioritize the workload.
- Document programming problems and resolutions for future reference.
- Provide training, support and best practices for Ad Hoc query users, Business Author and Professional Author.
- May require evening and weekend work in response to needs of the systems being supported.
Job Requirements:
- 5+ year experience developing/designing Business Intelligence solutions (at least 3 of which on the IBM Cognos platform).
- Bachelor’s or Master’s Degree in MIS, Computer Science, Statistics, Finance, or related field
- A strong background in Manufacturing and ERP systems
- In-depth knowledge of Cognos Analytic tools, including but not limited to, Framework Manager, Report Studio, Event Studio and Analysis Studio
- Expert-level knowledge of SQL, stored procedures, views, and triggers
- Experience with performance tuning
- Experience with effective Data Visualization principles
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills
- Ability to liaise with Business and IT leadership on a regular basis
- Ability to collaborate with (internal) customers to understand business requirements and translate those into actionable plans
- Proven experience in prioritizing and delegating work to meet deadline objectives and quality metrics
- Experience in promoting Self Service BI across organizations
- Experience in creating dashboards, scorecards, and reports throughout the development cycle
What We Offer
• Medical, dental, prescription, vision, life and disability insurance; and a flexible spending account
• 401(k) retirement savings plan with company match
• Extensive safety training, new hire orientation, continuous learning and development programs and tuition reimbursement
• Paid holidays and vacation time
What do our employees have to say?
“It engages you professionally, and provides learning opportunities.”
“Lots of growth opportunity.”
“The company’s young enough to be exciting, but old enough to be stable.”
Not just a job—a great place to work!
Flex-N-Gate is an equal opportunity employer. EEO/Minorities/Females/Veterans/Disabled.
Skills Required
- 5+ years of experience developing and designing business intelligence solutions, including at least 3 years on the IBM Cognos platform
- Bachelor’s or master’s degree in MIS, Computer Science, Statistics, Finance, or a related field
- Strong background in manufacturing and ERP systems
- In-depth knowledge of Cognos Analytics tools, including Framework Manager, Report Studio, Event Studio, and Analysis Studio
- Expert-level knowledge of SQL, stored procedures, views, and triggers
- Experience with performance tuning
- Experience applying effective data visualization principles
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills
- Ability to liaise regularly with business and IT leadership
- Ability to collaborate with customers to understand business requirements and translate them into actionable plans
- Experience prioritizing and delegating work to meet deadlines and quality metrics
- Experience promoting self-service business intelligence across organizations
- Experience creating dashboards, scorecards, and reports throughout the development cycle
What We Do
Starting with aftermarket parts in 1956 and moving into O.E. in 1968, Flex-N-Gate produces the highest quality products and systems for the automotive industry. With our extensive plastics, metals and mechanical assemblies experience, we persistently strive for continuous improvement and on-time delivery of defect-free products. We provide our customers a comprehensive solution using our collective resources of product engineering, project management, testing, stamping, welding, molding, painting, plating, assembly and shipping.
