Senior COBOL Programmer Consultant - SOSC

Job Title: Senior COBOL Programmer Consultant

Location: Blythewood, SC (Onsite)

Duration: 12 Months

Pay Rate: $60-$65/hr

Candidate must be a CURRENT South Carolina resident. No relocation allowed.

Role Overview:

We're hiring a Senior COBOL Programmer Consultant to lead development, support, and enhancement of mission-critical applications using MicroFocus Visual COBOL, Visual Studio, and Oracle/SQL environments. This role combines hands-on development with production troubleshooting, working across business application layers.

Responsibilities:

Enhance and maintain legacy business applications (Phoenix II, web services, batch jobs).

Develop solutions using COBOL, Visual Studio (.NET VB/C#), and Oracle/SQL.

Participate in full SDLC: analysis, design, coding, testing, deployment.

Handle production incidents and ensure application uptime.

Collaborate closely with internal IT and business stakeholders.

Document work and provide clear status updates. Required Skills:

8+ years MicroFocus Visual COBOL (IIS, Windows Server).

4+ years Visual Studio (2019/2022).

4+ years Oracle/SQL application programming. Preferred Skills:

Advanced SQL (Oracle or MS SQL).

IIS setup/configuration.

C# .NET backend development. Qualifications:

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or similar (or 10+ years hands-on experience).

Certifications in MicroFocus or Microsoft (optional but beneficial).