About the position
Job purpose:
The DB2MVS Platform Owner is responsible for the overall ownership, stability, security, performance, and strategic direction of the Db2 for z/OS platform, ensuring effective governance and collaboration across stakeholders.
Job responsibilities:
- Own the 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, prioritise 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 company 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
Preferred qualification:
- IT Related Degree or Diploma
Preferred certifications:
- Platform Specific Certifications
Minimum experience level:
- 8–10+ years experience in DB2 for z/OS in enterprise, including ownership, governance and design assurance responsibilities
- Owning a critical production DB2 environment
- Working across multiple mainframe domains
- Being accountable for:
- Platform stability
- Standards compliance
- Production readiness
Job purpose:
The DB2MVS Platform Owner is responsible for the overall ownership, stability, security, performance, and strategic direction of the Db2 for z/OS platform, ensuring effective governance and collaboration across stakeholders.
Job responsibilities:
- Own the 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, prioritise 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 company 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
Preferred qualification:
- IT Related Degree or Diploma
Preferred certifications:
- Platform Specific Certifications
Minimum experience level:
- 8–10+ years experience in DB2 for z/OS in enterprise, including ownership, governance and design assurance responsibilities
- Owning a critical production DB2 environment
- Working across multiple mainframe domains
- Being accountable for:
- Platform stability
- Standards compliance
- Production readiness
Desired Skills:
- Qualification
- Platform Specific Certifications
- 8+ yrs DB2 for z/OS in enterprise
- ownership
- governance and design
- Owning a critical production DB2
- multiple mainframe domains
