Platform Owner (DBMVS Database) Permanent Role
The Focus Group
- R83,300 - R141,700 per month
- Permanent Senior position
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Randburg
- Posted 21 May 2025 by The Focus Group
- Expires in 34 days
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Job 2611396
About the position
Job Purpose
Own the DB2MVS Database platform and provide technical platform support for IT Operations, also manage it as part of an end-to-end customer experience.
Job Responsibilities
- Own the DB2MVS Database platform end-to-end including:
- Platform governance, platform lifecycle, strategic direction, deployment of new services and,
- Platform availability and stability
- Work with the infrastructure integrators to ensure that designs and blueprints incorporate best practices
- Approve all designs and blueprints specific to the platform domain
- Identify, prioritize and implement platform improvement opportunities
- Responsible for the overall service definition and delivery
- Work across platform domains to coordinate and ensure that the platform is correctly integrated, implemented and monitored
- Evaluate non-functional requirements
- Establish good vendor relationships with regards to strategic direction and support of platform
- Support the achievement of the business strategy, objectives and values
- Stay abreast of developments in field of expertise
- Ensure personal growth and enable effectiveness in performance of roles and responsibilities Contribute to the organization Culture building initiatives (e.g. staff surveys etc.)
- Participate and support corporate responsibility initiatives for the achievement of business strategy
- Seek opportunities to improve business processes, models and systems though agile thinking.
Essential Qualifications - NQF Level
- Matric / Grade 12 / National Senior Certificate
Essential Certifications
Preferred Qualifications
- IT Related Degree or Diploma
- Platform certification
- Cloud / AI certification
Minimum Experience Level
- 15 years Platform Specific experience on IBM Mainframe
- 15 years technical operational IT experience in db2mvs database support
- 5 – 10 years DB2MVS Database Technical Team Leader experience
Technical / Professional Knowledge
- Networking
- Storage area network infrastructure
- Database Knowledge including in-depth understanding of DB2MVS with 15 years technical database administrator experience.
- Database administration and maintenance
- Performance tuning at database and query level
- Database optimization and improvements
- Team management as a technical leader
- IT Risk and security principles
- Disaster Recovery & Business continuity standards
- Information systems and technology
Behavioral Competencies
- Technical thought leadership
- Team leader
- Professional Knowledge and Skills
- Decision Making
- Building Partnerships
- Managing Work
- Influencing
- Work Standards
- Continuous Learning
Desired Skills:
- Database
- Database Administration
- Disaster Recovery
- IBM DB2
- Infrastructure
- IT Risk
- Team Leadership
The Focus Group
About the agency
THE FOCUS GROUP was formed in 1989 and has offices in Johannesburg and Cape Town. We are a full service Human Resource Consulting Company, encompassing Black Empowerment joint venture partner Focus Kamoso, and offering a comprehensive range of integrated recruitment, assessment, employee relations, training and development, HR, employee benefit and payroll management services to a wide range of South African, African and international business organisations.
Our commitment is to enter into a partnership with you, the Client, which adds value to your business and profit to your bottom line, by tailoring solutions that assist you to
• Source, assess and select the best possible human resources.
• Design and implement competency based training programmes, which ensure that your employees are capable of delivering the service excellence that your clients demand, and the competitive edge which you seek to maintain.
• Create a business environment in which you manage change to your advantage and an organisational climate that allows your team to perform to its maximum potential.
• Design employee benefit and remuneration structures which ensure that your people take ownership of your business and which protect you against losing your most valuable resource to your competition.
• Implement an employee relations framework that promotes workplace harmony and minimises the occurrence of disruptive legal disputes.
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