Database Administrator - Project Lead for Remote Work
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12 Months
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Skills
- DBA
- DATABASE ADMINISTRATOR
- IDE
- COBOL
- MAINFRAME
Summary
Job Title: Database Administrator (IDMS DBA) – Project Lead
Location: 100% Remote
Duration: 12 Months (Extension Possible)
Job Description
We are seeking a highly experienced Database Administrator (IDMS DBA) – Project Lead to support a large-scale enterprise modernization initiative. The ideal candidate will possess deep expertise in CA IDMS database administration on IBM z/OS mainframe environments, along with strong leadership, project coordination, and communication skills.
This role involves working with cross-functional technical teams to administer, optimize, and support enterprise databases while ensuring high availability, security, and performance. The successful candidate will be self-driven, collaborative, and comfortable working in a fast-paced environment with evolving priorities.
Key Responsibilities
Required Qualifications
Preferred Qualifications
Experience with one or more of the following technologies is highly desirable:
Location: 100% Remote
Duration: 12 Months (Extension Possible)
Job Description
We are seeking a highly experienced Database Administrator (IDMS DBA) – Project Lead to support a large-scale enterprise modernization initiative. The ideal candidate will possess deep expertise in CA IDMS database administration on IBM z/OS mainframe environments, along with strong leadership, project coordination, and communication skills.
This role involves working with cross-functional technical teams to administer, optimize, and support enterprise databases while ensuring high availability, security, and performance. The successful candidate will be self-driven, collaborative, and comfortable working in a fast-paced environment with evolving priorities.
Key Responsibilities
- Administer, monitor, and maintain CA IDMS databases following industry best practices.
- Provide database support for development, testing, staging, and production environments.
- Optimize database performance through monitoring, tuning, and performance analysis.
- Design and implement database security, backup, recovery, and operational procedures.
- Collaborate with application development, infrastructure, and support teams to resolve database-related issues.
- Advise development teams on database design, schema modifications, and data modeling.
- Coordinate with external vendors and stakeholders when required.
- Participate in production support and a 24x7 on-call rotation.
- Prepare technical documentation and support continuous process improvements.
- Perform additional database administration and project-related tasks as assigned.
Required Qualifications
- Bachelor''s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Business, or a related field (or equivalent experience). Master''s degree preferred.
- 15+ years of experience administering CA IDMS databases in IBM z/OS mainframe environments.
- 10+ years of experience with IDMS SQL implementation and relational database support.
- 15+ years of experience implementing and managing IDMS security.
- 15+ years of experience programming with COBOL and ADS/O using native and SQL-based IDMS databases.
- 12+ years of experience with IBM High Level Assembler (HLASM).
- 10+ years of experience using IDMS Perfmon for monitoring and reporting.
- Strong understanding of database deployment, administration, performance tuning, backup, recovery, and disaster recovery.
- Experience with project planning, effort estimation, and technical leadership.
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
- Ability to work independently and collaboratively in distributed teams.
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience with RACF security administration.
- Knowledge of application change management processes.
- Healthcare or insurance industry experience.
- Experience handling PHI/PII-sensitive environments.
- Medicaid Management Information Systems (MMIS) experience.
- Public sector or government project experience.
- Medicaid operations knowledge.
- Secondary knowledge of Microsoft SQL Server
Experience with one or more of the following technologies is highly desirable:
- CA IDMS
- IBM z/OS
- COBOL
- ADS/O
- JCL
- CICS
- TSO
- SQL
- High Level Assembler (HLASM)
- VB.NET
- C#
- Java
- JavaScript
- HTML
- CSS
- jQuery
- RPG
Employers have access to artificial intelligence language tools (“AI”) that help generate and enhance job descriptions and AI may have been used to create this description. The position description has been reviewed for accuracy and Dice believes it to correctly reflect the job opportunity.
- Dice Id: 91142014
- Position Id: 26-02262
- Posted 22 hours ago
Company Info
About Syntricate
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Syntricate Technologies is an Information Technology and Business Consulting company that offers comprehensive solutions to our clients for Quality Assurance, Validation, Regulatory, Business Analysis and Project Management services. Our core values are integrity, delivering value and making positive impact on society. We are committed to our client success and work on high standards to provide the best professional services.
We believe in effective integration of technology to improve business processes. We provide solutions that address the current and long-tern needs of our clients nationwide which range from various industries such as Healthcare, Pharmaceutical, Life Sciences, Finance and Insurance.
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