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Database Administrator (IDMS DBA) Project Lead
Positin type: W2 contract
Job Description
Positin type: W2 contract
Job Description
- Lead database administration activities for a large-scale, high-visibility enterprise project supporting mission-critical applications.
- Provide hands-on IDMS database administration, monitoring, and application support following established industry best practices.
- Collaborate with application development teams, system support teams, and database administrators to manage database environments across development, testing, staging, and production.
- Configure, tune, and optimize IDMS database features to maximize system performance and availability.
- Analyze database performance metrics, recommend improvements, and implement optimization strategies.
- Develop, maintain, and enhance database operational procedures and standards.
- Provide technical leadership and guidance on database architecture, deployment strategies, and data model enhancements.
- Coordinate with vendors, external organizations, and cross-functional stakeholders to support project objectives.
- Support application development teams by recommending best practices for database design, performance, and scalability.
- Participate in a 24x7 on-call support rotation to ensure continuous availability of critical systems.
- Assist with database deployment, maintenance, upgrades, troubleshooting, and production support.
- Contribute to project planning, technical estimations, resource planning, and implementation strategies.
- Communicate effectively with technical teams, project management, and business stakeholders through presentations, status updates, and documentation.
- Ensure database security, integrity, reliability, and compliance with organizational standards.
- Perform additional database administration and technical leadership responsibilities as assigned.
- 15 years of experience administering and deploying IDMS databases in IBM z/OS mainframe environments.
- 10 years of experience with IDMS SQL Option, including relational database implementation and SQL-based database support.
- 15 years of experience implementing and managing IDMS security, including ADS/O application structures, IDD, and relational database objects.
- 15 years of experience developing applications using COBOL and ADS/O with native and SQL-based IDMS databases.
- 12 years of experience with IBM High Level Assembler on z/OS.
- 10 years of experience using IDMS Perfmon for monitoring and performance reporting.
- Strong understanding of enterprise application development and implementation projects.
- Experience with project planning, effort estimation, and technical resource allocation.
- Excellent written, verbal, presentation, and interpersonal communication skills.
- Demonstrated integrity, leadership, and ability to work effectively with cross-functional teams.
- RACF security administration knowledge.
- Experience with application change management processes.
- Healthcare industry experience and/or experience handling PHI/PII data.
- Medicaid Management Information Systems (MMIS) experience.
- Medicaid operations experience.
- Public sector experience is preferred.
- Bachelor's degree in a technical, business, or related field, or equivalent work experience.
- Master's degree is preferred.