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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