Lead Mainframe DB2 Database Administrator

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🇺🇸 United States – Remote

💵 $111.7k - $189.8k / year

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

📀 Database Administrator

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FIS

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10,000+ employees

Founded 1968

💼 Consulting

📦 Logistics

🛡️ Insurance

Consulting • Logistics • Insurance

FIS is a leading provider of technology solutions for financial institutions, businesses, and governments worldwide. It offers a comprehensive suite of banking, lending, and payment solutions designed to help entities thrive in the digital age. FIS focuses on providing advanced solutions that improve efficiencies, reduce costs, and enhance customer satisfaction by offering services such as digital banking, automated finance, wealth management, and payment processing. With its expertise in fintech, FIS powers the global economy by ensuring secure and efficient money management throughout its lifecycle, from storage and transfer to investment and compliance.

📋 Description

• Plans Db2 for z/OS databases, including base definition, structure, documentation, long-range requirements, operational guidelines, and protection • Ensures accuracy, completeness, and availability of data using IBM support tools • Establishes and maintains security and integrity controls • Formulates and monitors database management policies, procedures, and standards • Proposes and implements enhancements to improve system performance and reliability • Researches and resolves database issues • Tests database software, IBM utilities, and fixes in sandbox environments before production rollout • Identifies and resolves issues in sandbox and upper environments • Migrates tested and approved structures, utilities, and fixes to production • Develops database configurations and objects according to business requirements and standards • Collaborates with application developers and tech support to mitigate impacts and risks • Coaches less experienced DBAs • Schedules database tasks and ensures completion • Executes database recovery tasks during disaster recovery scenarios and exercises • Monitors database performance and recommends corrective actions • Performs database tuning and optimization, including index rebuilding • Troubleshoots application failures with the Applications Team and supports solutions • Maintains operational database documentation, including disaster recovery, recovery presentation, naming standards, and performance and tuning • Assists with training and familiarization of less experienced team members • Participates in on-call rotation and occasional outages • Communicates with IBM on DB2 issues and mentors less experienced DBAs

🎯 Requirements

• Typically, Minimum 8-10 Years Relevant Exp in Db2 for z/os • Installation, customization, testing, and maintenance of database systems within a production environment • Critical thinking leading to solution-oriented approaches • Takes the initiative to work a task or issue • Operates independently who owns the task at hand • Excellent written and verbal communication skills to collaborate across technical teams and application teams • LUW Db2 experience is a plus • Programming, operations or tech support experience is a plus • Participate in Oncall rotation and occasional outages • For positions located in the US, if made a conditional offer, required to undergo a drug test

🏖️ Benefits

• A voice in the future of fintech • Always-on learning and development • Collaborative work environment • Opportunities to give back • Competitive salary and benefits