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Senior COBOL Developer

Sita Consulting Services, LLCSC🇺🇸United StatesPosted 18 Aug 2026

Why This Role Stands Out

As a Senior COBOL Developer with Sita Consulting Services, you'll play a vital role in maintaining and evolving critical state systems, offering significant opportunities for technical leadership and impact. This on-site position is ideal for an experienced developer who thrives on complex problem-solving and collaboration, with the potential for contract extension. We encourage you to apply and contribute your expertise to this essential project.

Quick Overview

Work Type
On Site
Level
Mid Senior

Job Description

Hi Candidates,
I've a below position if you're qualified then share resume to ASAP.
This is a W2 position.

Job title: IT - Senior COBOL Developer
Client/Agency: State of South Carolina SCDMV
Location: Columbia, SC

Interview Process: 2 Rounds of Virtual Interviews
Duration of the Contract: 12 Months
Possibility for Extension: Yes
Work Location: Fully Onsite
Candidate location: Candidate MUST be a CURRENT SC, NC, or GA Resident AND be willing to relocate to SC at least 5 business days prior to the start date at their own expense.

Scope of the project:

This assignment is for maintenance, support, and development of the core DMV business systems supporting South Carolina's drivers and vehicles. This system supports legislative and federal requirements for traffic violation processing for South Carolina. This system is a Client-Server system utilizing COBOL as the back end and .NET as the human interface. The position is withing the COBOL development team as the Senior Programmer / Team Lead. This position reports to the SCDMV COBOL development manager and will directly support the SCDMV core business system known as Phoenix. This position will require CJIS information security certification which SCDMV will sponsor. Candidate must be able to work independently. Excellent communications skills are required.

Daily duties / responsibilities:

1. Analyze the Phoenix core business system and assigned tickets for development and/or system modification.
2. Take the lead in analyzing and proposing solutions to assigned tickets and projects
3. Partner with business units to develop business specifications, translate those business specifications into technical specifications, and obtain business sign-off of specifications.
4. Code, test, promote, and interact with impacted users ensuring that solution meets requirements as documented in the specifications.
5. Production support for the Phoenix system
6. Provide daily and weekly status to the development manager and business analyst(s)

Required Skills:

10+ Years of Experience with Visual COBOL AND 1+ Years of Experience with Visual COBOL V9 and higher
10+ Years of experience with computer system analysis, design, coding, testing, debugging, and implementation techniques and practices for developing new systems or modifying existing 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 Experience providing Level 3 (L3) production support
10+ Years Experience functioning as the primary contact with business units to develop and review business and technical specifications and ensure delivery of specified functionality.

Preferred Skills:

Oracle 19+ SQL
Familiarity with Microsoft Visual Studio .NET / C# development environment
Experience working in a Governmental environment
Preferred Certifications: Visual COBOL technical certifications
Additional Skills:
Experience mentoring and guiding less experiences technical colleagues
Proven proficiency communicating effectively with users, vendors, staff members and management both orally and in writing.
Ability to plan, define, lead, direct, instruct, and review project work and personnel.
Education:
Prefer 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.

Skills

Oracle
SQL
C#
COBOL
.NET
LESS
Phoenix

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