Senior Fullstack Engineer

Location: Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates

In fast changing markets, customers worldwide rely on Thales. Thales is a business where brilliant people from all over the world come together to share ideas and inspire each other. In aerospace, transportation, defence, security and space, our architects design innovative solutions that make our tomorrows possible.

Thales has built a presence in the United Arab Emirates for over 35 years, and today has over 300 employees. Thales in the UAE is part of our Middle East business that has 1,800 people across Egypt, Iraq, Kuwait, KSA, Lebanon, Oman, Pakistan, Qatar and UAE. Together we delivered technology for the Dubai metro, the longest driverless metro network in the world and a fare collection system that processes up to 250,000 transactions per day. We make UAE a safer place by providing secure electronic payment solutions, cyber security systems and communications as well as security systems for Dubai International Airport and air traffic management and navigation systems for Abu Dhabi’s airport.

OUR OPPORTUNIT

Every day, hundreds of thousands of airplanes take off and land around the world, and millions of passengers hope to arrive at their destination quickly, safely, and without delay.

As a global leader in Air Traffic Management, Thales AMSs software and hardware systems are deployed in 170 countries.

TopSky - Flow Manager relies on Thales’ ATC, Safety and Security unique expertise in Air Traffic Management to help Air Navigation Service Providers monitor and regulate air traffic flows by managing the allocation of departure slots, arrival times, and en-route delays to prevent congestion and maintain safe and efficient operations within the airspace system.

Thales and our partner are joining efforts to establish a new development center in the UAE. This collaboration aims to accelerate the development of advanced ATFM features within the TopSky - Flow Manager suite and to deploy this new generation of ATFM services in this rapidly growing air traffic region

JOB OBJECTIVE

This role will directly report to the onshore Engineering Manager for the assigned project within the UAE.

The Senior SW Engineer must proactively work within an agile team on a service-oriented architecture.

You have practical understanding, be force of proposal, be open to change, continuously improving his technical skills and like to work in an agile environment.

You will contribute to the solution definition and development, in close collaboration with TopSky Flow Manager’s Solution Owner, the Solution Architect, the Techlead of the squad as well as the Proxy PO of the UAE squad to:

• Transform the business needs to Technical Req? make estimations and the planning definition with the team members,
• Undertake the design and development of applications by collaborating with other software solutions engineer to share knowledge and improve overall product/solution
  
  
  

Roles & Responsibilities

The Senior Software Dev works with the squad, the development team that builds and runs the product/components using SCRUM methodology.

You will be a member of an Agile Team and will

• Make sure that the Stories comply with the Definition of Done.
• Work within in a Scrum team with other software developers, in Agile mode
• Contribute to the requirement definition, to the software design and you will be involved with the architectural aspects of the software projects
• Integrate software components into a fully functional software system
• Write well-designed, documented and testable code
• Develop, test and execute full software development life cycle
• Design, implement and test features with scalability, performance, deployment/operation and end-user experience in mind
• Be an Active part of the Agile team
  
  
  

The Senior Software Engineer must have the following competencies:

• Proven implementation of Rich web interface development (JavaScript, HTML-5, CSS3, VueJS, Angular )
• Proven implementation of Software components developments (Java, Maven, Vert.X, , Spring Boot, REST)
• Experience on Continuous Integration Responsibility (Jenkins, Maven, Artifactory, Git, Jira, Sonar)
• Have ownership of his code, participate in the deployment and accompany it to production (practice in Ansible, Bash, SSH, Linux, Docker)
• Enforce Code best practices and rules, TDD, time commitments.
• Take technical decisions and be able to defend and justify his own and the team choices
• Be the go-to person for technical challenges
• Write high quality documents (e.g. technical documents, Low Level Design, ICD, High Level Designs, How-To documents, Software Requirement Specifications etc.)
• Ensure the project schedule, strategies, policies and constraints
  
  
  

Key Areas of Responsibility

• Manage scope and schedule to provide high quality deliverables per internal and external customer commitments/requirements.
• Ensure that the project deliverables meet the customers requirements, contract specification and the necessary clearances (e.g. security, safety, export control).
• Hold the engineering team responsible for meeting the technical expectations listed above.
• Act as the primary technical contact for customer on all technical issues.
• Produce project planning, requirements, and testing documents while playing an active part in the day-to-day design and development decision-making process.
• Communicate effectively, professionally and in a timely manner with internal personnel, external customers, consultants and subcontractors.
  
  
  

Work Experience Requirements

The candidate must have rich hands-on experience in JAVA development and JavaScript frameworks (one of Angular, ReactJS or VueJS).

• Master’s degree from an Engineering school and:
• Have some significant experiences (professional/internships, academic or personal projects such a GIT Hub, Meet Ups, etc.)
• 6+ years of progressively responsible engineering experience, including Project Engineering
• 4+ years of Experience with Docker and Kubernetes technologies
• 4+ Experience of Web protocols and technologies, RESTful Web services
  
  
  
  

• Good ATM (Air Traffic Management) background with experience in
• Air Traffic Management systems
• Flight data management and processing
  
  
  
  

Strong experience of managing a SW development items

• Understanding of SAAS model
• Understanding of cloud native architecture and DevOps implications (deployment without breaking changes. run, cyber security, costs etc…)
• You can demonstrate knowledge in Full Stack or pure back/pure front programming languages and frameworks (Java/Spring Boot and React/Typescript)
• You are familiar with compilation/code building/continuous integration
• You have knowledge of IS Computing Platforms, Operating Systems, and Hypervisors
• Must have technical writing experience (in English) and ability to produce high quality documents.
• Must be fluent in English
• Knowledge and experience of Linux System is mandatory
• Candidates with additional knowledge in Python, C, C++ will be considered seriously.
  
  
  

Qualification, Certification & Educational Requirements

• Master’s degree or equivalent in Computer Science, Electronics, or related fields.
• Must have high fluency in spoken and written English (Candidates also fluent in French or/and Arabic will be preferred).
• Certifications in JAVA, Linux, DevOps toolset and Agile are preferred
  
  
  

Preferred Skills / Experience

A working experience in Agile team, Cloud and AI solutions and great level of communication would be beneficial.

Hse Responsibilities

Take care of your own safety and the safety of others as far as it is practicable

To use safety equipment (including PPE) as required and intended

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