Cobol Programmer

ND Global Consulting Services, Inc. is seeking an experienced Senior COBOL Developer / Team Lead to support the South Carolina Department of Motor Vehicles. The consultant will maintain, support, and enhance SCDMV's mission-critical Phoenix business system, which supports driver, vehicle, traffic-violation, legislative, and federal processing requirements.

The Phoenix environment is a Windows-based client-server system using COBOL on the backend and .NET for the user interface .

Key Responsibilities

• Analyze the Phoenix core business system and assigned development/support tickets.
• Lead analysis and development of technical solutions for assigned projects and issues.
• Partner with business units to gather requirements and develop business specifications.
• Translate business requirements into detailed technical specifications.
• Obtain business approval/sign-off on specifications.
• Design, code, test, promote, and implement COBOL-based system enhancements.
• Coordinate with impacted business users to validate that delivered solutions meet documented requirements.
• Provide ongoing Level 3 production support for the Phoenix system.
• Provide daily and weekly project/status updates to development management and business analysts.
• Lead and mentor technical team members as needed.

Required Qualifications

• 6+ years of experience with Visual COBOL and/or Micro Focus COBOL.
• Working knowledge of Visual COBOL V9 .
• 10+ years developing and maintaining complex, mission-critical applications in a Windows client-server environment.
• 5+ years leading technical software development teams in planning and deploying software systems.
• 10+ years coding and testing COBOL-based business applications using Oracle SQL in a Windows client-server environment.
• 5+ years of Level 3 production support experience.
• 5+ years serving as the primary technical contact with business units , including development and review of business and technical specifications.
• 10+ years of system analysis, design, coding, testing, debugging, and implementation experience.
• Ability to work independently with excellent written and verbal communication skills.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with Oracle 19+ SQL .
• Familiarity with Microsoft Visual Studio, .NET, and C# .
• Previous experience working in a government environment .
• Visual COBOL technical certifications.
• Experience mentoring and guiding junior technical professionals.
• Strong ability to plan, lead, direct, review, and coordinate technical project work.