Programmer analyst Jobs in Columbia, SC

W-2 ONLY no sponsorship no subcontracting

Senior Systems Programmer

Start: 05/11/2026
End: 04/25/2027

Duties: Write or debug programs to maintain and control computer systems software, such as operating systems, networked systems, and database systems. Provide technical and disaster recovery expertise for systems software.
•40% Diagnose, isolate, and debug software problems and perform problem resolution. Identify issues that the vendor is responsible for and refer those issues appropriately.
•35% Coordinate installation, testing, and maintenance of systems software. Schedule system downtime in a way that minimizes user impact.
•10% Review customer requests, security patches, and audit requirements for additions or changes to systems, and evaluate feasibility to determine if/how to handle the request while maintaining an adequate/appropriate overall systems infrastructure. To determine if requested changes are possible, review system capabilities, workflow, and scheduling limitations.
•10% Cross trains in all areas of systems programming to efficiently perform on-call rotation.
•5% Provide technical and disaster recovery support for systems software.
Skills: Required Skills and Abilities: Strong analytical and logical thinking skills. Strong understanding of systems programming, graphical user interfaces, control languages, development, quality assurance, and implementation strategies of systems software. Thorough understanding of currently utilized systems programming productivity tools and their use. Ability to review and analyze systems software and recommend performance solutions.

Required Software and Other Tools: Standard office equipment.

Work Environment: Fast paced, multi-platformed environment which may require action and response 24X7 to support the technical business needs of the customer.

Keywords:
Education: Required Education: Bachelor's degree Computer Science, Information Systems, or other job-related field or 4 years of job-related work experience or 2 years of job-related experience plus an associate’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology or other job-related degree.

Required Work Experience: 6 Years work experience including varied systems programming experience.

Skills and Experience:
Languages: English, Read, Write, Speak

Location:
Columbia, SC
I-20 @ Alpine Road,

***Information Systems Job Category - Credit Check must be processed during pre-screens.***

Required Education: Bachelor's degree Computer Science, Information Systems, or other job related field or 4 years of job related work experience or 2 years of job related experience plus an associate’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology or other job related degree.

Required Work Experience: 6 Years IT work experience including varied systems programming experience.

Partial Onsite – Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday Onsite and as needed.
C2 eligibility is required

Standard Hours - 8-4:30pm Monday - Friday. Overtime, on call, weekends, and off hours as needed once fully trained

Required Technologies:
JCL - Required
Mainframe/host experience - required
IBM z/OS MQ mainframe – required
Experience creating/maintaining a queue manager and queues – required - this requirement is VERY important

Nice To Have:
CICS – desired
IBM WebSphere MQ – desired
Cobol – desired
Unix & zlinux - nice to have

***Currently working with MQ version 9.3***

Day to Day:
Resolving test and production issues that arise.
Working on customer requests such as creating a new queues, queue manager & changing queue depth.
Working on a multitude of projects ranging from installing the latest release of MQ to configuring MQ on servers.
Working with error reports and handling multiple tasks at the same time.
Internal monitoring such as checking queue depth.

Not Looking For: Not looking for someone who knows how MQ works from a user standpoint or knows that they send a record and it goes to MQ.