About the role
The Business Intelligence (BI) Developer (IBM Cognos and Microsoft Power BI) will play a key role in maintaining, modernising, and supporting business intelligence solutions within the Data Warehouse (ACDW) and BAU/Operations environment.
The BI Developer will design, develop, and optimise reports and dashboards using IBM Cognos and Microsoft Power BI, ensuring high performance, reliability, and usability. A major focus of this role will be supporting the migration from Cognos to Power BI, ensuring seamless transition of reporting artefacts, maintaining data integrity, and improving visualisation standards.
The successful candidate will work collaboratively with architects, analysts, and business users to deliver insights that support aged care policy, compliance, and program outcomes.
Key responsibilities
* Design, develop, and maintain BI reports, dashboards, and data models in Cognos and Power BI.
* Support and execute migration activities from Cognos to Power BI, including redesign of reports, validation, and testing.
* Work closely with the ACDW and BAU/Operations teams to understand reporting requirements and translate them into scalable BI solutions.
* Optimise report performance, data queries, and refresh processes to ensure timely and accurate insights.
* Contribute to the development of standardised reporting templates and data governance practices.
* Provide technical guidance and mentoring to junior developers on BI best practices.
* Collaborate with cross-functional teams including Data Modellers, ETL Developers, and Solution Architects.
* Ensure all solutions comply with departmental data governance, security, and accessibility standards.
Highly desirable criteria
* Demonstrated experience (5+ years) in BI development using both Cognos and Power BI within an enterprise data warehouse environment.
* Proven experience in migrating BI artefacts and reports from Cognos to Power BI.
* Demonstrated ability to design, develop, and optimise complex data models, reports, and dashboards.
* Experience working in Agile, cross-functional data teams delivering to business and technical stakeholders.
* Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with the ability to translate requirements into scalable BI solutions.
* Excellent communication and collaboration skills, with the ability to engage technical and non-technical audiences effectively.
Desirable criteria
* Experience with Qlik Sense and other modern BI visualisation tools.
* Understanding of data governance frameworks and metadata management.
* Familiarity with aged care or health data systems (e.g., Siebel, Salesforce, Services Australia).
* Certifications in Power BI, Cognos, or Data Analytics.
* Experience contributing to BI strategy or roadmaps in a large government or enterprise environment.
Technical skills and experience
* Proficiency in IBM Cognos (Framework Manager, Transformer, Report Studio, Analytics).
* Advanced skills in Microsoft Power BI, including DAX, Power Query, Dataflows, and Workspaces.
* Experience in report migration from Cognos to Power BI.
* Strong SQL and data modelling capabilities within enterprise data warehouse environments.
* Familiarity with Qlik Sense
* Experience integrating BI tools with data sources such as Teradata, Oracle, and GCP.
* Understanding of Agile & DevOps practices DevOps practices
Benefits
* Federal Government Opportunity
* Long term contract
* Hybrid working arrangements
Contact details
For a confidential chat, please contact Maliha on or via email at - and we would be more than happy to provide you with additional information and assist in the application process.
Please note that a National Police Check might be required as part of pre-employment screening.