Senior Database Architect – DB2

CSG

Senior Database Architect providing technical leadership for CSG’s database management systems and ensuring compliance with DBMS standards. Seeking candidates with extensive database administration experience and multi-platform knowledge.

Posted 5/28/2026full-timeRemote • 🇺🇸 United StatesSenior💰 $119,837 - $191,735 per yearWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

CloudJavaLinuxRDBMSShell ScriptingSQL

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Provides technical direction for DBMS standards such as software delivery, patch policies, database tuning, performance recommendations, and application design recommendations.
Designs, recommends, and implements backup and recovery policies and procedures.
Designs business continuity architecture and ensures it meets the needs of the business.
Review new & revised business continuity process and design.
Provides suggestions and standards for documentation that will lead to better efficiencies and information sharing within the team or across the organization.
Provides technical recommendations for advanced database components (replication, security, clustering, and partitioning).
Research and analyze available DBMS functionality and makes suggestions for implementation.
Design standard work-plans; push for automation/efficiency; drives for compliancy to standards.
Work as part of a team and provide 24x7 support when required; Identify and resolve complex database in a timely manner.
Provides technical leadership on problem calls; provide focus and drive for resolution and root cause analysis.
Opens & works tickets with DBMS vendors; helps other team members to drive vendors to resolution.
Identifies global problems and drives to correct across the ecosystem.
Provides options for resolution and drives to automate a solution.
Makes design recommendations for daily operational checks, audits, and event management.
Drives toward automation and standardization.
Provides standards for shell scripting and ensures scripts are written to standard.
Writes complex shell scripting and reusable components.
Makes suggestions for standards across the enterprise including automation & efficiencies.
Mentors & trains junior team members.
Provides technical leadership for the DBA team.
Works with cross-functional teams on designing high-performance database solutions for the value stream and platforms.
Ability to understand all system and application level concepts/components for a given value stream.
Leads technical efforts for projects & initiatives.
Designs & implements all aspects of database architectures.
Sets database organizational policies & direction (both operational and strategic).
Provides database tuning and performance analysis for value streams and platforms; ability to work closely with other teams (networking, storage, system administration, application) and make recommendations on improvements.

Requirements

What you’ll need

Associates/Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience required.
Minimum 12 years of database administration and architecture experience
Experience with multiple OS platforms (z/OS, Exadata, Linux, Windows)
Experience with a variety of database implementations & applications in a production environment.
Experience and knowledge on concepts such as OS (i.e. z/OS, *NIX, Intel, Linux), storage (SMS, SAN, NAS, DA), Network, LAN, WAN and TCIP/IP, Virtual environments, Cloud computing
Experience in designing & implementing all aspects of database architectures
Experience setting database organizational policies & direction (both operational and strategic)
Preferred Experience with mainframe z/OS interfaces, monitors, security, tools preferred.
Experience with Enterprise Agility methodologies and demonstrated experience, experience with SAFe and DevOps preferred.
Advanced & thorough OS knowledge (z/OS) - Utilities, Interfaces, Output/Spool Facilities, WLM
Advanced database networking concepts
Advanced & thorough understanding of DB2 z/OS RDBMS (SQL, Utilities, Security, Recovery)
Proficiency in Security concepts and admin (RACF, ACF2, Top Secret, AD)
Working knowledge of storage administration
Proficiency in performance monitors (RMF, Omegamon, Sysview)
Thorough understanding of database relational modeling, design concepts, & implementations.
Advanced understanding of & experience with common DBA tools
Proficiency in RDBMS tuning (application, subsystem, & operating system levels)
Ability to independently troubleshoot complex problems
Ability to easily & calmly handle technical crises
Understanding of CICS, Cobol, Assembler, and Java to code, debug, & optimize database access
Excellent time management
Shell or power scripting ability (REXX or similar language)
Ability to use a personal computer.
Proficiency with other Microsoft Office applications.
Ability to read, write, speak, and understand the English language in a business environment.

Benefits

Comp & perks

Work from Home
Employee Belonging Groups
Healthcare: Dental, Medical, and Vision
Paid Vacation, Volunteer, and Holiday Time Off
And so much more!

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Hard Skills & Tools

database administrationdatabase architectureDB2 z/OS RDBMSSQLshell scriptingperformance tuningbackup and recoverybusiness continuityautomationrelational modeling

Soft Skills

technical leadershipproblem-solvingmentoringtime managementcommunicationteam collaborationcrisis managementefficiency improvementdocumentation standardsroot cause analysis