ATFM Software Engineer (UAE National only)

Thales Alenia Space•Abu Dhabi, AE• Full Time

Posted 1 month ago• Software

Job Description

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 tomorrow's 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 OPPORTUNITY

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 AMS's 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 OBJECTIV

This role 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 service-oriented 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.

You will contribute to the solution definition and development, in close collaboration with Product Owner and the Teach Lead of the team in UAE by:

Contributing of the transformation of some business needs to Technical Req and give inputs for planning together with the team members,
Participate to the design and development of services, components by collaborating with other software solutions engineer to share knowledge and improve overall product/solution

ROLES & RESPONSIBILITIES

The Software Engineer must have the following competencies:

Implement Rich web interface development (JavaScript, HTML-5, 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
Ensure the Code best practices and rules, TDD, time commitments.
Participate on 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.)
Adhere to project schedule, strategies, policies and constraints

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 or Bachelor degree from an Engineering school and

3+ years experience in development with high fluency in Java and Web user interface development.
2+ years of Experience with Docker and Kubernetes technologies
2+ Experience of Web protocols and technologies, RESTful Web services
A pre-requisite 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 bachelor’s or master’s 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

PREFERRED SKILLS / EXPERIENCE

A working experience with Air Trafic Conctrol or in Avionic constraints environment 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

At Thales we provide CAREERS and not only jobs. With Thales employing 80,000 employees in 68 countries our mobility policy enables thousands of employees each year to develop their careers at home and abroad, in their existing areas of expertise or by branching out into new fields. Together we believe that embracing flexibility is a smarter way of working. Great journeys start here, apply now!