Orion Innovation is a premier, award-winning, global business and technology services firm. Orion delivers game-changing business transformation and product development rooted in digital strategy, experience design, and engineering, with a unique combination of agility, scale, and maturity. We work with a wide range of clients across many industries including financial services, professional services, telecommunications and media, consumer products, automotive, industrial automation, professional sports and entertainment, life sciences, ecommerce, and education.
The IDMS DBA is responsible for working closely with application development teams, z/OS system support staff and the Database Administrators to provide IDMS DBA support for application and infrastructure databases.
Duties include:
- Hands-on IDMS monitoring and application support in ways that are consistent with IDMS best practices.
- Collaboration with database administration team to maintain test, staging, production databases and the development of operations procedures for database management.
- Enable and tune IDMS features to optimize the performance of databases in the context of the mainframe environment. Generate and analyze performance data, recommend courses of action and implement best solutions to achieve optimum performance.
- Coordinating with outside entities, including vendors for other systems/services, providers, professional associations, and other State agencies.
- Advising development and product teams on best approaches for required data model extensions and/or changes.
- Participate in a 24x7 on-call support rotation.
- Other duties as assigned.
REQUIRED SKILLS (RANK IN ORDER OF IMPORTANCE):
The IDMS DBA role has four major attributes: Database deployment and administration leadership, project management skills, people skills, and domain knowledge in enterprise class application development projects. Candidates must display excellence in all areas.
- Extensive knowledge of IDMS deployment and operations in a z/OS environment on a z-series IBM mainframe computer.
- Extensive knowledge of the IDMS SQL option. Be able to create and support IDMS databases that are deployed using the relational model with SQL syntax. Understand the implementation of SQL access to native IDMS databases.
- Knowledge and deployment of IDMS security, including security of ADS/O application structures, IDD and relational database objects.
- Understanding of application programming for the IDMS database, both native and SQL, using the COBOL and ADS/O programming languages.
- Be familiar with the IBM High Level Assembler on the z/OS operating system.
- Be familiar with IDMS Perfmon online monitoring and report generation.
- Understanding of IT development and implementation projects.
- Project planning experience, including effort estimation on technical tasks and resource allocation.
- Strong written and oral communications skills, including the ability to give presentations to project management.
- Willingness and ability to effectively engage with people and organizations on a continuous basis.
PREFERRED SKILLS (RANK IN ORDER OF IMPORTANCE):
- Hands-on experience with managing IDMS performance and availability 24x7.
- Experience with configuring monitoring and alerting for IDMS databases.
- RACF security knowledge.
- Hands-on experience with IDMS upgrades and patching.
REQUIRED EDUCATION:
- Minimum Bachelor’s degree in a technical, business, or related field.
Orion is an equal opportunity employer, and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, creed, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, pregnancy, age, national origin, citizenship status, disability status, genetic information, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.
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Orion is a leading digital transformation and product development services firm. Headquartered in Edison, NJ, we have a global team of 6,200+ associates, with engineers in 14 major delivery centers across North America, Europe, Asia Pacific and Latin America.
For over 25 years, Orion has been solving complex business problems for our clients. Our transformative business solutions are rooted in digital strategy, experience design, and engineering, empowering our clients to operate with agility at scale.
Our mission is to serve as an agile and trusted partner for business transformation initiatives, providing deep emerging technology, experience design, and domain expertise.
Our business has more than tripled over the last three years.
We have grown aggressively both organically and inorganically, adding new clients, complementary skills, domain expertise, and strengthening our global footprint.
