Technical Specialist - DB2 (6-9 yrs)

Role : IBM Z Technical Specialist Db2 DBA

As IBM Z Technical Specialist Db2 DBA

- Primary responsibility is to design and provide support on the database technology, ensuring customer delight as per the defined size, effort and schedule confirming to quality standards and best practices.

- Maintain and improve SLAs and always ensure compliance to HSBC policies.

- Actively look for automation opportunities, strategize and automate repeat process to achieve organization objectives for efficiency.

- Perform pro-active analysis on day-to-day work to obtain automation on deliveries thereby reducing repetitive and standardized tasks/processes.

- Being global team ensure best practices are used to support the diverse customer group.

- Have thorough understanding of the environments to provide best service quality.

- Should have very good hands-on experience in the underlying technology/infrastructure.

- Work closely with the stakeholders to avail/impart all necessary training from time to time to ensure enhanced service delivery.

General Skills :

- Experience working on several large complex projects in an architectural role designing and implementing technical solutions to commercial problems.

- Excellent problem determination skills and the ability to detect and control any processing anomalies or system errors.

- Excellent written and spoken communication skills, particularly when conveying complex information, and the ability to build effective networks across business areas, developing relationships based on mutual trust.

- Banking / Finance background would be beneficial.

Technical Requirements :

- Understanding of functional requirements and translation of business Requirements into technical specifications.

- Production support and Release Management of database environments.

- Define the physical database Design.

- Build, review, QA, implement, and support application database releases.

- Implement RACF/ACF2 DB2 security rules and Access authority.

- Build and maintain High Availability setup, replication setups and interact with application teams and other infrastructure teams.

- Implement RACF/ACF2 DB2 security rules and Access authority.

- Data conversion/migration assistance.

Qualifications

- Bachelors degree in computer science, Information Technology or a related discipline preferred.

- 8-12 years of relevant work experience.

- Good understanding of ITIL processes and procedures.

- Strong overall technical leadership skills.

To be successful in this role, you should meet the following requirements :

- Demonstrate analytical and problem management skills.

- Solve problems laterally with in-time information to line manager.

- Providing consulting on database Performance Monitoring, Tuning & Optimization

- Facilitation, planning, and coordination with the development teams.

- Participate in technical initiatives & Support in data Centre migrations.

- Participate in ever-greening database environments.