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

- **Company:** INFOLABS LLC
- **Location:** Blythewood, SC, United States
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Salary:** $145,600.0 - $166,400.0
- **Contract:** Temporary contract
- **Skills:** .NET Framework, Business Systems, C Sharp (Programming Language), COBOL (Programming Language), Software Debugging, Systems Analysis, Microsoft Visual Studio, Oracle Databases, Oracle (Applications), Information Technology, Windows Client
- **Published:** October 6, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.indeed.com/viewjob?jk=87916f0831e83a22

## About the Role

* 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

## Description

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