IBM Z Technical Specialist – Db2 DBA
Posted 3 days ago by CSI GLOBAL LTD
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Sheffield, England, United Kingdom
Summary: The IBM Z Technical Specialist – Db2 DBA role involves designing and supporting database technology to ensure customer satisfaction while adhering to quality standards and best practices. The position requires proactive analysis for automation opportunities and collaboration with stakeholders to enhance service delivery. The specialist will also manage database environments, implement security rules, and support application database releases. A background in banking or finance is beneficial for this role.
Key Responsibilities:
- Design and provide support on database technology, ensuring customer satisfaction.
- Maintain and improve SLAs while ensuring compliance with HSBC policies.
- Identify and strategize automation opportunities to enhance efficiency.
- Perform proactive analysis to reduce repetitive tasks and processes.
- Support diverse customer groups by using best practices.
- Provide necessary training to stakeholders for enhanced service delivery.
- Manage production support and release management of database environments.
- Define physical database design and implement application database releases.
- Implement DB2 security rules and access authority.
- Build and maintain high availability setups and replication setups.
- Assist with data conversion and migration.
Key Skills:
- 5-8 years of experience in a similar role.
- Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Information Technology, or related discipline preferred.
- Strong problem determination and analytical skills.
- Excellent written and spoken communication skills.
- Experience with ITIL processes and procedures.
- Strong technical leadership skills.
- Experience in database performance monitoring, tuning, and optimization.
- Ability to facilitate and coordinate with development teams.
Salary (Rate): undetermined
City: Sheffield
Country: United Kingdom
Working Arrangements: undetermined
IR35 Status: inside IR35
Seniority Level: undetermined
Industry: IT
Role: IBM Z DB Admin(IBM Z Technical Specialist – Db2 DBA) FTE Needed: 1 Location: Sheffield, UK Start Date: ASAP End Date 31-Dec-26 Inside ir35 Contract
As IBM Z Technical Specialist – Db2 DBA · Primary responsibility is to design and provide support on the database technology, ensuring customer delight as per the defined size, effort and schedule confirming to quality standards and best practices. Maintain and improve SLA’s and always ensure compliance to HSBC policies. Actively look for automation opportunities, strategize and automate repeat process to achieve organization objectives for efficiency.
· Perform pro-active analysis on day-to-day work to obtain automation on deliveries thereby reducing repetitive and standardized tasks/processes.
· Being global team ensure best practices are used to support the diverse customer group. Have thorough understanding of the environments to provide best service quality. Should have very good hands-on experience in the underlying technology/infrastructure. Work closely with the stakeholders to avail/impart all necessary training from time to time to ensure enhanced service delivery.
General Skills
- Experience working on several large complex projects in an architectural role designing and implementing technical solutions to commercial problems.
- Excellent problem determination skills and the ability to detect and control any processing anomalies or system errors.
- Excellent written and spoken communication skills, particularly when conveying complex information, and the ability to build effective networks across business areas, developing relationships based on mutual trust.
- Banking / Finance background would be beneficial.
Technical Requirements
- Understanding of functional requirements and translation of business Requirements into technical specifications.
- Production support and Release Management of database environments.
- Define the physical database Design.
- Build, review, QA, implement, and support application database releases.
- Implement RACF/ACF2 DB2 security rules and Access authority.
- Build and maintain High Availability setup, replication setups and interact with application teams and other infrastructure teams.
- Implement RACF/ACF2 DB2 security rules and Access authority.
- Data conversion/migration assistance.
Qualifications 5-8 years · Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Information Technology or a related discipline preferred. · Good understanding of ITIL processes and procedures. · Strong overall technical leadership skills.
To be successful in this role, you should meet the following requirements:
- Demonstrate analytical and problem management skills.
- Solve problems laterally with in-time information to line manager.
- Providing consulting on database Performance Monitoring, Tuning & Optimization
- Facilitation, planning, and coordination with the development teams.
- Participate in technical initiatives & Support in data Centre migrations.
- Participate in ever-greening database environments.