Database Administrator - Project Lead

Position Overview : The consultant will work closely with application development teams, z/OS system support personnel, database administrators, vendors, and State agencies. The ideal candidate must be highly self-motivated, collaborative, technically strong, and capable of working independently in a complex, fast-changing environment., * Provide hands-on IDMS database administration, monitoring, deployment, and application support.

• Maintain development, test, staging, and production IDMS databases.
• Develop operational procedures and database-management standards.
• Enable and tune IDMS features to improve performance within the z/OS mainframe environment.
• Generate and analyze IDMS performance reports and implement performance improvements.
• Support native IDMS and relational IDMS databases using SQL.
• Administer security for ADS/O applications, IDD objects, and relational database objects.
• Advise development teams on database design changes, extensions, and implementation approaches.
• Coordinate with vendors, providers, professional organizations, and other State agencies.
• Provide technical effort estimates, project planning support, and resource-allocation input.
• Participate in a 24×7 on-call support rotation.

Candidate Location Requirement: Candidate must reside within the continental United States and be comfortable working EST hours. The requirement also states that South Carolina residency is required; candidate eligibility should be confirmed before submission., * 15+ years of IDMS deployment and operations experience in a z/OS environment on an IBM z-series mainframe.

• 10+ years of experience with the IDMS SQL option, including:
• Creating and supporting relational-model IDMS databases.
• Using SQL syntax with IDMS databases.
• Implementing SQL access to native IDMS databases.
• 15+ years of experience deploying and administering IDMS security, including:
• ADS/O application structures.
• IDD objects.
• Relational database objects.
• 15+ years of IDMS application programming experience using:
• COBOL.
• ADS/O.
• Native IDMS and SQL-based database access.
• 12+ years of IBM High-Level Assembler experience on z/OS.
• 10+ years of experience with IDMS Perfmon online monitoring and report generation.
• Strong project-planning, technical estimation, communication, presentation, and stakeholder-management skills.

Preferred Skills

• RACF security knowledge.
• Application change-management experience.
• Healthcare or health-insurance technology experience.
• Experience managing PHI and PII data.
• Medicaid Management Information System experience.
• Medicaid operations experience.
• Public-sector or State government experience.
• Secondary experience with Microsoft SQL Server.

Education Bachelor’s degree in a technical, business, or related field, or equivalent professional experience. A master’s degree is desirable.

InterSources Inc , is a Small, Woman, and Minority-Owned Business Enterprise, ISO/IEC 27001, SOC 2 Type 2 certified company with massive 18+ years of diversified experience in providing IT Consulting Services, Artificial Intelligence, Data Analysis, Application Development, Cloud Services, Cybersecurity, Digital Marketing, ERP Management, Custom Software Development, Web Development, UI/ UX Design, System Integration, QA Support etc. We make reasonable accommodations for clients and employees, and we do not discriminate based on any protected attribute including race, religion, color, national origin, gender sexual orientation