Senior Database Engineer

Senior Database Engineer

Salary: $150k-$160k + Bonus

Location: Berkeley Heights, NJ

Hybrid role: 3 days in-office/2 days remote

*We are unable to provide sponsorship for this role*

*Bonus Eligible*

A prestigious Fintech company is seeking a Senior Database Engineer with 5 years' DB2 experience in a z/OS Mainframe environment

As a Sr. Mainframe DB2 DBA, you can look forward to:

• Collaborating with Development, Operations, and other technical teams on new and existing DB2 project implementations
• Maintaining DB2 system options and SQL for optimum performance and availability
• Assisting with the development and maintenance of DB2 standards and roadmaps
• Providing on-call support
• Leading efforts to guide team to best practices for database usage, high availability, and business continuity.
• Creating and supporting databases across internal and end-user applications.
• Maintaining databases, including all production, backup, and development systems
• Administering database security across all database environments as appropriate
• Providing guidance to other database administrators to expand the role and capabilities of the database environment.
• Maintaining a state-of-the-art knowledge of existing standard methodologies in database administration.
• Mentoring Jr. level DBA's
• Supporting application deployment and provisioning of database systems during business and non-operating hours
• Crafting and developing database processes (ie, stored procedures, configuration files, tables, views, and functions)

Minimum Requirements:

• At least 5 years hands-on experience supporting DB2 in large IBM z/OS Mainframe environment
• Associates degree in Computer Science/Management or related field