Senior COBOL Developer / Team Lead (Micro Focus Visual COBOL, Oracle)

A State Agency is looking for a senior COBOL developer to lead the COBOL team behind one of its core business systems. It’s a Windows client-server application: COBOL back end on Micro Focus Visual COBOL, .NET front end, Oracle database. It supports legislative and federal requirements and touches a large share of the state’s residents, so it has to work. You’ll be the senior programmer and team lead, reporting to the COBOL development manager.

What you’ll do

• Analyze the system and assigned tickets, and lead the design of fixes and enhancements
• Work directly with business units to write business specs, turn them into technical specs, and get sign-off
• Code, test and promote changes, and work with affected users until the solution meets the spec
• Own Level 3 production support
• Mentor less experienced developers and give daily and weekly status to the manager and business analysts

• 10+ years coding and testing COBOL business systems against an Oracle database in a Windows client-server environment
• 8+ years with Micro Focus COBOL or Visual COBOL, and hands-on working knowledge of Visual COBOL V9
• 10+ years of system analysis, design, coding, testing, debugging and implementation on mission-critical applications
• 7+ years leading a technical development team through planning and deployment
• 7+ years providing L3 production support
• 7+ years as the primary technical contact for business users on specs and delivery
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a related field
• Able to pass a CJIS fingerprint-based background check (the agency sponsors the CJIS certification; fingerprinting is done in SC before start)

Nice to have

• Oracle 19c or later
• Visual Studio .NET / C#
• State or local government experience
• Visual COBOL certification

Info Labs is a 100% US-based, IT staffing firm headquartered in Herndon, VA, in business for over 19 years.

Pay: $70.00 - $80.00 per hour

Expected hours: 40.0 per week

Application Question(s):

• Do you currently live in SC, NC or GA?
• Can you work onsite in Blythewood during training, then hybrid with at most two remote days a week?
• Can you work on our W2, without corp to corp or a third party?
• How many years have you coded COBOL against Oracle in a Windows client-server environment?
• How many years with Micro Focus COBOL or Visual COBOL?
• Have you worked hands-on with Visual COBOL version 9?