Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. nTech Workforce is seeking an IT Mainframe DB2 Project Manager for a four-month contract role. The position leads governance forums, coordinates mainframe stability and workload activities across technical teams, manages risks and issues, and prepares executive reporting and communications.
Responsibilities
- Forum Governance and Execution: Own the planning, facilitation
- Documentation, and follow-up for the Mainframe Workload and Stability Forum. Establish agendas, capture decisions, maintain action trackers, confirm owners and due dates, and ensure recurring cadence with clear operating discipline
- Mainframe Stability and Workload Coordination: Coordinate across mainframe systems, DB2, operations, infrastructure, application, performance, and vendor teams to track workload constraints, recurring incidents, capacity issues, performance trends, remediation plans, and operational dependencies
- Risk, Issue, and Action Management: Maintain a centralized risk and issue log for workload and stability concerns. Drive timely follow-up on open items, escalate blockers, validate closure evidence, and ensure risks are communicated clearly to leadership before they become delivery or production impacts
- Executive Reporting and Stakeholder Communication: Prepare concise executive summaries, forum readouts, status updates, dashboards, and decision logs that communicate progress, risks, dependencies, and required leadership actions in a clear and outcome-focused manner
- Process Improvement and Operating Model Maturity: Identify opportunities to strengthen forum discipline, improve intake and prioritization, standardize reporting, clarify accountability, and increase transparency across mainframe stability and workload management activities
Skills
- Bachelor's Degree in Health Informatics, Information Technology, Information Systems or related discipline
- 5 years experience in leading projects in a cross-functional, technical systems implementation
- Strong experience managing cross-functional technical forums, operational review cadences, action-item tracking, issue/risk management, and executive-level reporting
- Experience working with mainframe, DB2, enterprise database, infrastructure, production support, incident/problem management, or mission-critical operations environments
- Demonstrated ability to translate complex technical issues into clear business impacts, decisions needed, and actionable next steps for leadership audiences
- Strong organizational discipline with proven ability to manage multiple workstreams, dependencies, stakeholders, and deadlines
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to prepare concise meeting recaps, status reports, decision logs, and escalation summaries
- Experience using collaboration and tracking tools such as ServiceNow, Jira, SharePoint, Teams, Excel, PowerPoint, or equivalent enterprise tools
- Experience supporting mainframe modernization, mainframe workload management, DB2 z/OS, DB2 LUW, capacity planning, performance tuning, or production stability initiatives
- Experience coordinating with managed service providers, infrastructure vendors, engineering teams, application teams, and operations teams in a highly regulated enterprise environment
- Understanding of ITIL practices, including incident, problem, change, release, and service management processes
- Experience building executive dashboards, operational scorecards, RAID logs, action trackers, and recurring governance packages
- PMP, Scrum Master, ITIL, or related project/program management certification preferred
- Healthcare payer, federal program, financial services, or other regulated industry experience preferred
- Strong Communication skills both written and verbal
- Ability to successfully lead in a matrixed environment
Benefits
- W2 Contract, 4 Months
- Remote Opportunity
Company Overview
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