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IT Mainframe DB2 Project Manager - ONLY W2

nTech SolutionsWashington, DC🇺🇸United StatesPosted 9 Sept 2026

Why This Role Stands Out

This remote IT Mainframe DB2 Project Manager role offers a fantastic opportunity to lead critical governance and coordination efforts within a reputable company, perfect for a detail-oriented leader eager to enhance operational stability and drive process improvements. You'll thrive here if you excel at cross-functional collaboration and executive communication, making a significant impact on mainframe operations. Apply now to leverage your expertise in this dynamic project management position.

Quick Overview

Seniority
Mid Senior
Work mode
Remote
Location
Washington, DC, United States
Posted
20 hours ago
ScrumCapacity PlanningJiraPMPProcess Improvement

Job Description

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Title: IT Mainframe DB2 Project Manager

Location: Washington, DC 20005

Duration: 4 Months Contract

Job Description:

Terms of Employment

  • W2 Contract, 4 Months
  • Remote Opportunity

Responsibilities

  • Forum Governance and Execution: Own the planning, facilitation, documentation, and follow-up for the Mainframe Workload and Stability Forum. Establish agendas, capture decisions, maintain action trackers, confirm owners and due dates, and ensure recurring cadence with clear operating discipline.
  • Mainframe Stability and Workload Coordination: Coordinate across mainframe systems, DB2, operations, infrastructure, application, performance, and vendor teams to track workload constraints, recurring incidents, capacity issues, performance trends, remediation plans, and operational dependencies.
  • Risk, Issue, and Action Management: Maintain a centralized risk and issue log for workload and stability concerns. Drive timely follow-up on open items, escalate blockers, validate closure evidence, and ensure risks are communicated clearly to leadership before they become delivery or production impacts.
  • Executive Reporting and Stakeholder Communication: Prepare concise executive summaries, forum readouts, status updates, dashboards, and decision logs that communicate progress, risks, dependencies, and required leadership actions in a clear and outcome-focused manner.
  • Process Improvement and Operating Model Maturity: Identify opportunities to strengthen forum discipline, improve intake and prioritization, standardize reporting, clarify accountability, and increase transparency across mainframe stability and workload management activities.

Required Skills & Experience

  • Bachelor's Degree in Health Informatics, Information Technology, Information Systems or related discipline
  • 5 years experience in leading projects in a cross-functional, technical systems implementation
  • Strong experience managing cross-functional technical forums, operational review cadences, action-item tracking, issue/risk management, and executive-level reporting.
  • Experience working with mainframe, DB2, enterprise database, infrastructure, production support, incident/problem management, or mission-critical operations environments.
  • Demonstrated ability to translate complex technical issues into clear business impacts, decisions needed, and actionable next steps for leadership audiences.
  • Strong organizational discipline with proven ability to manage multiple workstreams, dependencies, stakeholders, and deadlines.
  • Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to prepare concise meeting recaps, status reports, decision logs, and escalation summaries.
  • Experience using collaboration and tracking tools such as ServiceNow, Jira, SharePoint, Teams, Excel, PowerPoint, or equivalent enterprise tools.

Preferred Skills & Experience

  • Experience supporting mainframe modernization, mainframe workload management, DB2 z/OS, DB2 LUW, capacity planning, performance tuning, or production stability initiatives.
  • Experience coordinating with managed service providers, infrastructure vendors, engineering teams, application teams, and operations teams in a highly regulated enterprise environment.
  • Understanding of ITIL practices, including incident, problem, change, release, and service management processes.
  • Experience building executive dashboards, operational scorecards, RAID logs, action trackers, and recurring governance packages.
  • PMP, Scrum Master, ITIL, or related project/program management certification preferred.
  • Healthcare payer, federal program, financial services, or other regulated industry experience preferred.
  • Strong Communication skills both written and verbal.
  • Ability to successfully lead in a matrixed environment.

Sincerely,

Preetam Raj

Lead Technical Recruiter

nTech Workforce Inc.

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