Role Overview
In this role, you'll deliver highly advanced and sophisticated technical support for mainframe Db2 and its associated processes, tools, and utilities. You'll help run and maintain services according to Group standards and policies, and assist with the delivery of investment funded work within mainframe environments, including out of hours.
Responsibilities
- Provide support for complex mainframe environments to tight timescales.
- Help drive the strategy and design across the mainframe development and test estate.
- Own and drive the zDBA technology roadmap, working closely with stakeholders to deliver against it.
- Implement standardisation and drive improvement initiatives in the team.
- Work collaboratively across the wider Lab and Platform teams to develop, promote, and implement process initiatives.
- Ensure processes, governance, and procedures are rigorously adhered to.
- Extensive in-depth expertise and knowledge of Db2 on z/OS.
- Expert-level experience of performance monitoring and optimisation of Db2, including SQL tuning, buffer pool tuning, and making targeted recommendations to improve service stability and availability.
- Expert-level experience of governing and approving DDL changes, handling schema evolution, validating impact, and ensuring alignment to change-control processes.
- Extensive experience of leading the resolution and troubleshooting of critical on-line systems.
- Proven experience of communicating and translating complex technical concepts for Senior Leadership.
- Experience of supporting junior team members, providing coaching on Db2 fundamentals, performance tuning, utilities, and operational processes.
Qualifications
- 10+ years of experience as a z/OS Db2 DBA in a financial organisation.
Benefits
- A generous pension contribution of up to 15%.
- An annual performance-related bonus.
- Share schemes including free shares.
- Benefits you can adapt to your lifestyle, such as discounted shopping.
- 30 days holiday, with bank holidays on top.
- A range of wellbeing initiatives and generous parental leave policies.
