Location
100% Remote (Must reside within the continental U.S. and work standard EST hours)
Experience Level
Senior Level (15+ years of relevant experience)
Role Overview
The Senior IDMS Database Administrator (DBA) provides comprehensive database management for a high-profile, enterprise-class application development project. Working within a highly collaborative, fast-paced team environment, the DBA will support critical mainframe application and infrastructure databases. This role requires a self-motivated technical leader capable of handling ambiguity, driving database strategy, and seamlessly bridging technical execution with overarching project objectives.
Key Responsibilities
Database Administration & Operations
- Provide hands-on IDMS monitoring and application support in alignment with best practices.
- Collaborate with systems support and extended database administration teams to maintain test, staging, and production databases.
- Develop and document standard operating procedures for database management.
- Participate in a 24x7 on-call support rotation to ensure continuous system availability.
Performance Optimization
- Enable and tune IDMS features to optimize database performance within a z/OS mainframe environment.
- Generate and analyze performance data using IDMS Perfmon.
- Recommend actionable strategies and implement solutions to achieve optimal system performance.
Technical Leadership & Collaboration
- Advise product and application development teams on best approaches for data model extensions and structural changes.
- Coordinate with external entities, including vendors, cross-functional agencies, and project management stakeholders.
- Support project planning initiatives, including technical task effort estimation and resource allocation.
Required Qualifications
- Education: Bachelor’s degree in a technical, business, or related field (or equivalent work experience).
- 15+ years of experience with IDMS deployment and operations in a z/OS environment on a z-series IBM mainframe.
- 15+ years of experience with the deployment of IDMS security, including security of ADS/O application structures, IDD, and relational database objects.
- 15+ years of experience with application programming for the IDMS database (native and SQL) using COBOL and ADS/O programming languages.
- 12+ years of experience with IBM High Level Assembler on the z/OS operating system.
- 10+ years of experience with the IDMS SQL option, including creating/supporting relational model databases and implementing SQL access to native IDMS.
- 10+ years of experience utilizing IDMS Perfmon for online monitoring and report generation.
Preferred Qualifications
- Master’s degree in a related field.
- Hands-on knowledge of RACF security and application change management principles.
- Secondary knowledge of MS SQL Server.
- Previous experience in the healthcare sector, public sector, or managing PHI/PII data.
- Experience with Medicaid Management Information Systems (MMIS) or Medicaid operations.
- Familiarity with surrounding technical environments and tools, such as VB.Net, C#.Net, Java, CICS, TSO, JCL, and RPG.
Core Skills & Attributes
- Impeccable integrity and the courage to make critical, high-impact decisions regarding public systems.
- Exceptional written and oral communication skills, including the ability to present technical concepts to project management.
- High degree of flexibility with an \"entrepreneurial\" mindset, comfortable operating in an environment where ambiguity is common.
- Strong collaborative mindset and the ability to work highly effectively with minimal supervision.
This is a remote position.
