Database Administrator - Project Lead for Remote Work

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

• 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