Senior Technical Software Engineer

Job description / Role

Product Engineering - It is a Software Engineering portfolio under Emirates Group where we are hiring talented software engineers to develop and support a host of software applications that powers the growth of Emirates Airlines and group with business interest spanning from Passenger services, Airport/ground operations, Crew & Network Operations, Air Cargo Sales and operations, Holiday and Leisure products and services at global scale. Software is at the core to support this diverse, large, and complex business operations which are built using latest and modern technology stack including Java, Cloud EPM, TPF/ALCS, ReactJS, AngularJS, NodeJS, Java Microservices, .Net, Python, Oracle, SalesForce, ERP suite etc following the best industry practices including DevSecOps and modern engineering practices.

Support in driving and implementing software engineering strategies, standards and guidelines in the assigned feature team. Collaborate with the team to develop business critical technical solutions through the application of software programming, robust engineering practices and built in quality. Job also includes planning/estimation, application development, deployment, release, hyper-care and operation of developed solutions. The job holder provides technical leadership to the assigned team in the software development lifecycle

Job Outline:

- Collaborate with the team to deliver technical design, development and deployment of complex solutions within relevant product.
- Carry out effective technical design reviews to ensure that the right architecture patterns are used by the team.
- Drive the adoption of Engineering practices , implement development process automation, lean software development, built-in-quality, test driven development, agile practices, and timely root cause analysis and blameless incident post-mortems.
- Partner with cross-functional teams to determine viability of solutions.
- Evaluate current problems, future requirements and existing solutions in medium to large projects to enable high level design and drive proof-of-concepts and implement prototypes to validate ideas
- Investigate, debug and fix complex issues involving corner cases and rare conditions.
- Support continuous improvement by investigating alternatives and new technologies and presenting these for architectural review.
- Contribute to sprint/work design and planning by providing subject matter expertise on business domain and relevant technologies and actively contribute to technology specific community of practices.
- Manage and mentor Software Engineers to allow for skill/knowledge development through advice, coaching, and training opportunities.
- Responsible for their technical deliveries and adherence to design and coding standards and practices.
- Ensure optimal use of enterprise application platforms, tools and libraries in line with the approved technology architecture.
- Responsible for corrective, adaptive, preventative and perfective maintenance of products in collaboration with other capabilities for the relevant product.

Qualifications & Experience

- Degree or Honours (12+3 or equivalent) in a relevant field such as Computer Science, Computational Mathematics, Computer Engineering or Software Engineering.
- Certification in Oracle Database preferred

To be considered for this role, you must meet the below requirements:

- 3+ years of Software Engineering experience preferably in agile ways of working
- Experience with Oracle PL/SQL Development. Experienced Oracle developer with a strong track record of delivery and experience complex implementations. Passionate about Oracle technology and keep up to date with the latest enhancements, releases and future roadmaps. Develop, design, test and implement complex database programs using Oracle and third party tools(Toad for Oracle).
- Experience with Oracle Version 12c, 19c,21c
- Strong experience with oracle functions, procedures, triggers, packages & performance tuning,
- Hands on development using Oracle PL/SQL.
- Performance tune SQL's, application programs and instances.
- Valuation of new and upcoming technologies.
- Providing technical assistance, problem resolution and troubleshooting support.

Knowledge/Skills:

- Experience of developing advanced technology solutions for large, complex organisations in a multi-functional environment.
- Experience in providing production support for business solutions.
- Strong knowledge in Full stack development capabilities, technology evaluation, vendor selection and technology vendor management
- Experience in implementation of contemporary engineering practices like lean software development, test driven development, continuous integration and continuous deployment
- Experience in establishing and managing technology platforms for DevOps, Code Management, Testing, Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment.

About the Company

A fast-growing international airline with one of the youngest fleets in the sky and more than 400 awards for excellence worldwide.