Lead Database Engineer (DB2 Z/oS)

Pay and Benefits:

• Competitive compensation, including base pay and annual incentive.
• Comprehensive health and life insurance and well-being benefits, based on location.
• Pension / Retirement benefits
• Paid Time Off and Personal/Family Care, and other leaves of absence when needed to support your physical, financial, and well-being.
• DTCC offers a flexible/hybrid model of 3 days onsite and 2 days remote (Tuesdays, Wednesdays, and a day unique to each team or employee).

The impact you will have in this role:

The Development family is responsible for creating, designing, deploying, and supporting applications, programs, and software solutions. May include research, new development, prototyping, modification, reuse, re-engineering, maintenance, or any other activities related to software products used internally or externally on product platforms supported by the firm. The software development process requires in-depth subject matter expertise in existing and emerging development methodologies, tools, and programming languages. Software Developers work closely with business partners and / or external clients in defining requirements and implementing solutions.

The Application Support Engineering role specializes in maintaining and providing technical support for all applications that are beyond the development stage and are running in the daily operations of the firm. Works closely with development teams, infrastructure partners, and internal / external clients to escalate and resolve technical support incidents.

What You'll Do:

• Work locally and remotely with Mainframe DB2 team, area management, and related technical support groups in the process of engineering mainframe database solutions.
• Evaluate, install, configure, and maintain DB2 for z/OS, related software products and supporting tools.
• Communicate issues with software vendors.
• DB2 system-level performance tuning.
• Assist in the configuration and setup of distributed database connections using JDBC
• Provide support for Disaster Recovery tests, database infrastructure changes, application changes, and business operations.
• Automation of database support procedures and repetitive DBA tasks.
• Responsible for the integrity and security of data in these databases.
• Adhere to security controls for the DB2 database environment
• Participate in DB2 on-call and hot-line rotation.
• Monitors database activity and assist developers and business clients in the utilization of databases.
• Troubleshooting database and SQL related problems
• Support backup and recovery of DB2 databases
• Respond to alerts related to DB2 database environment.

Education:

• Bachelors degree or equivalent experience.
• Minimum of 6 years of related experience.
• Ability to work independently, with minimal supervision.
• Strong analytic and problem-solving skills.
• Ability to work on multiple projects simultaneously.
• Excellent communication (both written and verbal) and interpersonal skills.
• Requires hands-on expertise with DB2 for z/OS.
• Knowledge of SQL.
• Requires general knowledge and hands-on experience with SMPE, planning and applying DB2 maintenance, configuring and supporting DB2 data sharing, DB2 systems performance monitoring and tuning, configuring database security, troubleshooting database issues.
• Experience with DB2 disaster recovery and database failure scenarios
• Understanding of DB2 database statistics and DB2 SMF records.
• Experience with diverse workload of applications utilizing DB2 for z/OS including batch, RRS, CICS, WebSphere on z/OS and distributed platforms, JZOS, and java batch on distributed platforms is a plus.
• Experience in a DB2 data sharing environment is a plus.
• Knowledge of distributed database connectivity configuration and setup are a plus.
• Knowledge of third-party vendor software products that support DB2 for z/OS - BMC (database utilities, Catalog and Change Manager, SQL Explorer and Apptune) and CA Sysview are a plus.
• Experience with IBM Infosphere Data Replication (Q-Rep or CDC) is a plus.
• General z/OS skills in areas that including TSO/ISPF, JCL, RACF. REXX and ISPF/CLIST programing are a plus.

Actual salary is determined based on the role, location, individual experience, skills, and other considerations. Please contact us to request accommodation.

Role: Database Developer / Engineer

Industry Type: Financial Services

Department: Engineering - Software & QA

Employment Type: Full Time, Permanent

Role Category: DBA / Data warehousing

Education

UG: Any Graduate

PG: Any Postgraduate