The Role
Lead maintenance, development, testing, and production support for South Carolina DMV’s COBOL-based Phoenix core business system. Analyze tickets, design technical solutions, translate business requirements into specifications, code and deploy changes, coordinate with business users, and provide status reporting. The role also leads a technical development team, mentors colleagues, and provides Level 3 production support in a Windows client-server and Oracle environment.
Summary Generated by Built In
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:
• 6+ Years of Experience with Visual and/or Micro Focus COBOL
• Working knowledge of Visual COBOL V9
• 10+ Years of Experience developing and maintaining complex, mission critical applications in a
Windows based Client Server environment.
• 5+ 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.
• 5+ Years Experience providing Level 3 (L3) production support
• 5+ Years Experience functioning as the primary contact with business units to develop and review
business and technical specifications and ensure delivery of specified functionality.
• 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.
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:
Bachelor’s Degree In Computer Science or a closely related discipline with 10 Years of Experience.
Work Mode:
Hybrid. Strong preference for fully onsite presence for the training period. After training, a schedule of two
days remote per week at maximum can be discussed with the resource and hiring manager.
Candidate Location:
Candidates must be CURRENT Residents of SC, NC, or GA
Requirements
Programmer - Consultant - Phoenix Infrastructure AND MCS
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:
6+ Years of Experience with Visual and/or Micro Focus COBOL
Working Knowledge of Visual Cobol V9
10+ Years of Experience developing and maintaining complex, mission critical applications in a Windows based Client Server environment.
5+ 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.
5+ Years Experience providing Level 3 (L3) production support
5+ Years Experience functioning as the primary contact with business units to develop and review business and technical specifications and ensure delivery of specified functionality.
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.
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 experienced 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 Required
- 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-based client-server environment
- 5+ years leading a technical software development team in planning and deployment of software systems
- 10+ years coding and testing complex COBOL business systems using an Oracle SQL database in a Windows-based client-server environment
- 5+ years providing Level 3 production support
- 5+ years serving as the primary contact with business units to develop and review business and technical specifications
- 10+ years of experience with computer system analysis, design, coding, testing, debugging, and implementation
- Ability to work independently
- Excellent oral and written communication skills
- Oracle 19+ SQL experience
- Familiarity with Microsoft Visual Studio .NET and C#
- Experience working in a governmental environment
- Visual COBOL technical certification
- Experience mentoring and guiding less experienced technical colleagues
- Ability to plan, define, lead, direct, instruct, and review project work and personnel
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a closely related discipline
- Current residency in South Carolina, North Carolina, or Georgia
- CJIS information security certification, sponsored by SCDMV
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The Company
What We Do
Novalink Solutions LLC is a global consulting, engineering, and AI product development company specializing in information technology and telecommunications. They provide AI-powered products, automation platforms, intelligent workflow systems, IT consulting, managed engineering, and staff augmentation services.
