Software Developer - Thales

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 1800 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 250000 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 Dhabis airport.

JOB OBJECTIVE:

• The Software Engineer will directly report to the onshore Software Engineering Manager for the assigned project within the UAE.
• The Software Engineer must proactively work within an agile team on a serviceoriented architecture; he must have practical understanding be force of proposal be open to change continuously improving his technical skills and like to work in an agile environment.

ROLES & RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Implement Rich web interface development (JavaScript HTML5 CSS3 VueJS Angular).
• Implement Software components developments (Java Maven Vert.X Spring Boot REST).
• Take part in 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).
• Be an Active part of the Agile team.
• 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 HowTo documents Software Requirement Specifications etc.)
• Adhere to project schedule strategies policies and constraints.

WORK EXPERIENCE REQUIREMENTS:

• Minimum 3 years experience in development with s high fluency in Java and Web user interface development.
• The candidate must have rich handson experience in JAVA development and JavaScript frameworks (one of Angular ReactJS or VueJS).
• A prerequisite is a strong knowledge of different architectural paradigms including SOA and micro service cloud native architectures DevOps SDLC and OOP Design best practices.
• Demonstrable experience in using tools related to Agile Software development and DevOPS: GIT Ansible Docker JIRA Jenkins Artifactory and similar.
• 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
• Knowledge and experience of Databases and SQL is mandatory
• Candidates with additional knowledge in Python C C will be considered seriously.

QUALIFICATION CERTIFICATION & EDUCATIONAL REQUIREMENTS:

• A bachelors in science degree standard or equivalent experience in a Software development environment
• 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.
• A working experience with Real time Software Radio Protocols Radio wave and communication would be beneficial.
• Knowledge and experience in other languages like C C and Python are preferred.

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