Location: Madison, WI 53703

100% remote but candidates MUST be WI residents or willing to relocate to WI at their own expense prior to starting.

Top Required Skills:

  • Db2 V11 or V12 (8+ years' experience)
  • z/OS v2.1 or higher (3 years' experience)
  • COBOL/SAS/CICS/.NE (8+ years' experience)

Nice to Have Skills:

  • SQL & database performance Tuning and Expert level SQL experience is preferred
  • Previous work experience in government, claims, accounting, or unemployment insurance management systems is preferred

Project Description (include Deliverables and Timelines for services to be provided):

Under guidance of the Client, this position performs advanced application architecture work for various systems Modernization project. The architect: recommends and maintains data management policy; provides expert technical leadership to the applications development and technical staff. Can do data modeling, data fixes, performance tuning, analysis of query and indexes, analysis of data structure and data definition, for the Client system for both Oracle and DB2 databases. Has knowledge of SQL server and Cloud SQL.

Well qualified candidates will have very strong HANDS-ON DBA experience with large application systems, i.e. 1000+ programs, 300+ tables, and 8+ years in DB2/CICS/Oracle environments or equivalent. Also experience with large system, or equivalent, using Platinum, ERWin, Omegamon, ChangeMan, CNTL-M or like tools; and significant IT related knowledge.

Hardware/Software Environment:

  • Db2 V11 or V12;
  • z/OS v2.1 or higher
  • COBOL/SAS/CICS/.NET;
  • IBM DB2 utilities;
  • IBM Data Studio;
  • Db2 SQL PL;
  • Platinum;
  • BMC Mainview;
  • Move for Db2;
  • ChangeMan;
  • Control-M Scheduler ;
  • JCL;
  • SQL;
  • FILEAID;
  • ERWin ;

Additional skills:

  • SQL & database performance Tuning
  • Expert level SQL experience
  • Dynamic SQL experience
  • BI / Analytics support

Additional Comments:

Previous work experience in government, claims, accounting, or unemployment insurance management systems is preferred. The successful candidate will be very technically competent, a consistently high producer, and very much a team player. They will have experience both with mainframe and client/server applications.