Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Syntricate Technologies is seeking a highly experienced Database Administrator (IDMS DBA) – Project Lead to support a large-scale enterprise modernization initiative. The role involves administering, optimizing, and supporting enterprise databases while ensuring high availability and performance, and requires strong leadership and project coordination skills.
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
Skills
- 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
- 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
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