Senior COBOL Developer

About the Role

This position is for maintenance, support, and development of the core DMV business systems supporting South Carolina's drivers and vehicles. The system supports legislative and federal requirements for traffic violation processing and is a Client-Server system utilizing COBOL as the back end and .NET as the human interface. The role is within the COBOL development team as the Senior Programmer / Team Lead, reporting to the SCDMV COBOL development manager and directly supporting the SCDMV core business system known as Phoenix. This position requires CJIS information security certification, which SCDMV will sponsor.

Responsibilities

• Analyze the Phoenix core business system and assigned tickets for development and/or system modification.
• Take the lead in analyzing and proposing solutions to assigned tickets and projects.
• Partner with business units to develop business specifications, translate those into technical specifications, and obtain business sign-off.
• Code, test, promote, and interact with impacted users to ensure solutions meet documented requirements.
• Provide production support for the Phoenix system.
• Deliver daily and weekly status updates to the development manager and business analyst(s).

Requirements

• 10+ years of experience with Visual COBOL V9 and higher architecture and programming.
• 10+ years of experience with computer system analysis, design, coding, testing, debugging, and implementation techniques for developing or modifying systems.
• 10+ years of experience developing and maintaining complex, mission-critical applications in a Windows-based Client-Server environment.
• 10+ years of experience leading a technical software development team in planning and deployment of software systems.
• 10+ years of experience coding and testing complex COBOL-based business systems in an Oracle SQL database and Windows-based client-server environment.
• 10+ years of experience providing Level 3 (L3) production support.
• 10+ years of experience functioning as the primary contact with business units to develop and review business and technical specifications, ensuring delivery of specified functionality.
• Ability to work independently with excellent communication skills.

Preferred Qualifications

• Oracle 19+ SQL.
• Familiarity with Microsoft Visual Studio .NET / C# development environment.
• Experience working in a governmental environment.
• Visual COBOL technical certifications.
• Experience mentoring and guiding less experienced technical colleagues.
• Proven proficiency in communicating effectively with users, vendors, staff, and management both orally and in writing.
• Ability to plan, define, lead, direct, instruct, and review project work and personnel.

Education

Preferred: Bachelor's degree in computer science or a closely related discipline with 10 years of experience. Experience in a government agency environment is extremely helpful.