Hansen Talent Group is hiring a Systems Analyst to support a large team in Columbia, SC.

This opportunity supports critical production and pre-production systems in a fast-paced, high-availability mainframe environment. This role is ideal for someone who thrives in troubleshooting, performance tuning, and cross-team coordination.

What You’ll Do

• Make recommendations to management to optimize system performance parameters and long-term stability.

• Provide enhancement recommendations aligned with enterprise IT strategy and analyze change requests from maintainers.

• Participate in development and review of custom integration solutions across applications.

• Research and resolve complex production issues impacting internal and external customers.

• Evaluate program interdependencies and assess downstream impact of changes or installations.

• Support production implementations, releases, data conversions, and disaster recovery exercises.

• Monitor system availability and coordinate team resources during high-impact deployments.

• Act as an internal consultant and mentor to Production Support team members.

• Provide training and guidance on current system functionality.

• Perform installations, configuration, scheduling, tuning, and corrective actions in Production and Test environments.

• Monitor batch job cycles, troubleshoot job failures, and engage App Dev or Tech Support when needed.

• Analyze performance issues such as long-running jobs or CPU utilization concerns.

What You’ll Need

• Technical experience in systems analysis, design, programming, or production support.

• Strong Batch Mainframe experience.

• Hands-on experience with JCL, Zeke Scheduling, and TSO.

• Deep understanding of production system maintenance and impact analysis.

• Knowledge of database management concepts and structured development techniques.

• Experience supporting high-availability, multi-platform environments.

• Strong troubleshooting and performance tuning skills.

• Excellent communication skills — ability to coordinate with on-call App Dev and Tech Support teams.

• Ability to work under pressure in a 24x7 support environment.

• Strong attention to detail and teamwork mindset.