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Database Consultant (Mainframe DB2 Database Administrator)

U.S. Bank

U.S. Bank

IT
Charlotte, NC, USA · Irving, TX, USA · Milwaukee, WI, USA · Hopkins, MN, USA · Atlanta, GA, USA
Posted on Nov 17, 2025

At U.S. Bank, we’re on a journey to do our best. Helping the customers and businesses we serve to make better and smarter financial decisions and enabling the communities we support to grow and succeed. We believe it takes all of us to bring our shared ambition to life, and each person is unique in their potential. A career with U.S. Bank gives you a wide, ever-growing range of opportunities to discover what makes you thrive at every stage of your career. Try new things, learn new skills and discover what you excel at—all from Day One.

Job Description

U.S. Bank is seeking a skilled Database Consultant with multi-platform and distributed database experience to contribute toward the success of our technology initiatives. Provides technical leadership to the IT community on selection, design, development, and integration of multi-platform, distributed databases. Offers senior level consulting in identifying and solving complex and highly critical database issues. Functions as a resource on database management issues around policy and standards. Leads the overall design, testing, implementation, maintenance, and control of the organization's physical, relational, and object-oriented databases across multiple platforms and computing environments. Participates in troubleshooting and technical system support for the database programming group. Oversees and performs database installation and configuration of database parameters. Develops data architectures and database management policies and standards. Guarantees the performance integrity and quality of databases.

Basic Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree or equivalent work experience

  • At least 8 years experience with tools, facilities and techniques for managing and administering data.

Preferred Skills/Experience

  • Extensive experience working as a Mainframe DB2 Database Administrator

  • Experience in creating table space areas, tables and views, logical and physical database design.

  • Experienced in the set-up and maintenance of database systems in a Mainframe z/OS operating systems environment: DB2.

  • Knowledge about monitoring and performance improvements.

  • Knowledge of database maintenance procedures including Load, Reorg, Imagecopy, Runstats, Recovery.

  • Proficient in the internals of a large-scale operating system.

  • Knowledge of interface with Cobol and Java programming languages.

  • Proficient in Microsoft Office and Teams productivity tools.

  • Strong skills in SQL tuning and database administration tools BMC and IBM.

  • Experience in Information management, Data movement tools, Query and database access tools, Object relational data management systems

  • Subject matter expert in: Database structures, Database design (Physical), Application development tools, Application delivery process, Relational databases.

Location Expectations

The role offers a hybrid/flexible schedule, which means there's an in-office expectation of 3 or more days per week and the flexibility to work outside the office location for the other days.

If there’s anything we can do to accommodate a disability during any portion of the application or hiring process, please refer to our disability accommodations for applicants.

Benefits:

Our approach to benefits and total rewards considers our team members’ whole selves and what may be needed to thrive in and outside work. That's why our benefits are designed to help you and your family boost your health, protect your financial security and give you peace of mind. Our benefits include the following (some may vary based on role, location or hours):

  • Healthcare (medical, dental, vision)

  • Basic term and optional term life insurance

  • Short-term and long-term disability

  • Pregnancy disability and parental leave

  • 401(k) and employer-funded retirement plan

  • Paid vacation (from two to five weeks depending on salary grade and tenure)

  • Up to 11 paid holiday opportunities

  • Adoption assistance

  • Sick and Safe Leave accruals of one hour for every 30 worked, up to 80 hours per calendar year unless otherwise provided by law

U.S. Bank is an equal opportunity employer. We consider all qualified applicants without regard to race, religion, color, sex, national origin, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability or veteran status, and other factors protected under applicable law.

E-Verify

U.S. Bank participates in the U.S. Department of Homeland Security E-Verify program in all facilities located in the United States and certain U.S. territories. The E-Verify program is an Internet-based employment eligibility verification system operated by the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services. Learn more about the E-Verify program.

U.S. Bank will consider qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records for employment. U.S. Bank conducts background checks consistent with applicable local laws, including the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance and the California Fair Chance Act as well as the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance. U.S. Bank is subject to, and conducts background checks consistent with the requirements of Section 19 of the Federal Deposit Insurance Act (FDIA). In addition, certain positions may also be subject to the requirements of FINRA, NMLS registration, Reg Z, Reg G, OFAC, the NFA, the FCPA, the Bank Secrecy Act, the SAFE Act, and/or federal guidelines applicable to an agreement, such as those related to ethics, safety, or operational procedures.

Applicants must be able to comply with U.S. Bank policies and procedures including the Code of Ethics and Business Conduct and related workplace conduct and safety policies.

Posting may be closed earlier due to high volume of applicants.