Ims Dba

Job Title: IMS DBA
Location: Pune

About Barclays
Barclays is a British universal bank. We are diversified by business, by different types of customers and clients, and by geography. Our businesses include consumer banking and payments operations around the world, as well as a top-tier, full service, global corporate and investment bank, all of which are supported by our service company which provides technology, operations and functional services across the Group.

Risk and Control Objective
Take ownership for managing risk and strengthening controls in relation to the work you do.

Working Flexibly

Hybrid Working

Structured hybrid role:
Introduction:
The team are responsible for the management of IMS database capacity, performance and availability, providing advice and consultancy on major database changes.

What will you be doing?
- Monitor incident and problem queues ensuring that Incidents are dealt with in a timely manner.
- Monitor database capacity to ensure that current sizing is not going to breach limits and take action when appropriate
- Create new procedures to accommodate changes to standard database utilities.
- Test database changes and prepare Change documentation to handover to implementation teams.
- Lead in the implementation of complex changes, teaching colleagues from own methodologies
- Proactively deliver on all activities and tasks assigned to them within the SLA to avoid any missed deadlines
- Provide in-depth verbal and/or written updates to customers on change progress
- Provide expert guidance on the change process for team and projects
- Takes the lead in complex changes and ensure the more effective resolution is selected to resolve
- Leads in the resolution of complex problems and/or incidents
- Excellent communication skills are essential to ensure team and management are kept fully up to date with any ongoing incidents which could affect service
- Use own initiative to make decisions on how best the resolve incidents and/or problems to mitigate impact on service
- In addition to communicating to the team, there may be a requirement to provide updates to a non-technical audience so the ability to adapt communication style based on audience is crucial.

What we’re looking for:

- Good knowledge of IMS Fastpath and Full Function databases
- Expert with PSB and PCB options
- Knowledge of Randomisers
- Knowledge of IMSv12 or later.
- A comprehensive understanding of the key software database toolsets from current vendor(s) - IBM/ BMC.
- Excellent working knowledge of JCL, TWS and RACF
- Application Programming background in Assembler or Cobol
- Knowledge of the IMS Catalogue

Essential Skills/Basic Qualifications:

- Graduate/ post graduate

Skills that will help you in the role:

- Undertakes in-depth problem diagnosis for infrastructure area
- Comprehensive understanding of Mainframe and its benefits
- Provide on-call support for production systems
- Undertakes complex changes
- Mentors less experienced colleagues
- Strong MS Office skills to be used for presentations, data analysis and document writing.
- Works unsupervised and is self-directing as well as being a strong team player
- Demonstrates initiative and competence; supports and encourages positive working behaviours in others.
- Identifies opportunities for improvements in internal processes and follows through to gain efficiencies.
- Contributes to and encourages ideas; builds on suggestions from others.
- Strong verbal and written communication skills
- Excellent stakeholder management skills - able to deal with Project Managers, Delivery Managers and technical colleagues from both Mainframe and non
- Mainframe areas.
- Ability to work under pressure and maintain quality levels and service stability

Where will you be working?
Pune

Be More at Barclays
Interested and want to know more about Barclays? Visit home.barclays/who-we-are/ for more details.
Purpose, Values and Mindset

We deploy finance responsibly to support people and businesses, acting with empathy and integrity, championing innovation and sustainability, for the common good and the long term.
Our values underpin everything we do: Respect, Integrity, Service, Excellence and Stewardship.

Respect
We harness the power of diversity and inclusion in our business, trust those we work with, and value everyone's contribution.
Integrity
We operate with honesty, transparency and fairness in all we do.
Service
We act with empathy and humility, putting the people and businesses we serve at the centre of what we do.
Excellence
We champion innovation, and use our energy, expertise and resources to make a positive difference.
Stewardship
We prize sustainability, and are passionate about leaving things better than we found them.

Our Mindset shapes how we take action, living by our Values, driven by our Purpose, always with our customers and clients at the heart of what we do; our Mindset is to Empower, Challenge and Drive.

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