Senior Technical Engineer - IT

at  Flydubai

QUALIFICATIONS:

• Bachelor’s Degree (3+ years)
• Information Technology, Computer Science, or related field. Experience in the design and development of large scale and mission critical business applications. Airline experience and working in multi culture environment is preferred.
• Fluent in English
• Minimum 7 years’ experience as an IT Business Analyst in an airline. Minimum 2 years’ of project management experience. Minimum 4 years’ as Senior Business Analyst in an airline working with senior management handling cross functional projects. Ability to execute projects based on Agile Methodology. Experience in conflict resolution across multiple stakeholders involving senior management to achieve the objective.
• Working experience with leading tools for Business Analysis for end-to-end documentation covering software development from requirements gathering, through to the analysis stages, design models, testing and maintenance.
• 7 - 9 years

MAIN OBJECTIVE OF ROLE:

• To design, develop, support, and deliver robust and cost-effective solutions aligned with flydubai corporate and IT strategies, while managing cost estimations, business case development and approval, as well as solution design, configuration, and deployment.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Translates business functional and non-functional requirements into technical specifications and works with solution architects to design robust and scalable solutions of high quality and conforming to IT standards.
• Leads the technical design and build for complex solutions across teams, reviewing and approving technical designs to ensure that the right architecture patters are used by software engineering teams.
• Applies expert knowledge of the technical stack and design principles for the components in the technology area to solve complex business issues and represents software engineering in cross business area initiatives.
• Champions automation and lean software development, conducting timely root cause analysis and incident ‘lessons learnt’ and helps define and refine the software and data engineering playbooks for use by relevant people in Technology.
• Leads discovery phase of medium to large projects to come up with high level design, partnering with cross-functional teams and drives proof-of-concepts and implementing prototypes to validate ideas.
• Investigates, debugs, and fixes complex issues involving corner cases and rare conditions and drives built in quality in software engineering teams in collaboration with end-to-end quality assurance.
• Mentors and develops software engineers on writing clean code and debug complex cases, teaches and helps developers test their code better and influence developers to write tests and review their work.
• Develops accelerator frameworks and practices to improve quality of technology solutions and productivity of engineers.
• Develops optimal technical design and high-quality code for technology products that passes the Quality Assurance (QA) requirements and is production deployment ready.
• Conducts functional, non-functional and performance testing by using appropriate automation tools.
• Measures and monitors engineering metrics that enable agility, scalability, data quality and reliability of technology solutions across the enterprise.
• Provides critical input into the technical debt remediation strategy and execution with support from environment management, service management, infrastructure management and cyber security.