Senior Technical Engineer

at  The Emirates Group

Job Purpose: At Emirates, we believe in connecting the world, to and through, our global hub in Dubai; and in constantly innovating to ensure our customers ‘Fly Better’.
Join our Database team, where we provide best-in-class database services for our extensive application portfolio. We ensure continuous availability, robust data protection, and top-tier database performance. Operating in both private and public cloud environments, we deliver a variety of relational and other database services with a strong customer focus, automated self-service capabilities, and the highest operational and security standards. If you are passionate about database technology and excellence, we invite you to apply and to contribute to the success of Emirates Group.
As a Senior Technical Engineer, you will design, develop, support and deliver robust and cost-effective solutions for the business and IT-led initiatives including solution development and cost estimations, configurations and deployment, business case development and approval. Additionally, you will support, contribute and ensure solution compliance to the enterprise architecture, production processes, QMS and other EGIT standard as well as to support, contribute and ensure the development of the roadmap of the concentrated technology roadmap aligning with the IT Strategy.

KNOWLEDGE/SKILLS:

• Agile and DevOps practice, Servant leadership principles. Experience in databases, Rational, NoSQL and Distributed SQL databases and cloud DBaaS and with leading public clouds, VMware-based private cloud.
• Knowledge of Terraform, Ansible, Jenkins and shell scripting. Experience with continuous availability deployments - RAC, Oracle ADG, Enterprise Manager, Oracle Golden Gate.
• Experience in environments requiring low latency, high throughput, availability and scalability.
• Experience in the usage of Oracle DBs in public clouds - Amazon AWS, MS Azure. Cloud-aware architectures deployment and support background, both for IaaS DBaaS (AWS Aurora etc).
• Experience in automation in large-scale database environments, Ansible, Jenkins, Terraforms, and shell scripting in CI/CD environments. Everything is a code approach. Git and code maintenance experience.
• Skilled in performance tuning, capacity management and troubleshooting large Oracle DB deployments with continuous availability requirements.
• Experience with other RDBMS - MS SQL, PostgreSQL - both IaaS and DBaaS.
• Experience with distributed SQL databases - Yugabyte, MariaDB, CockroachDB.
• Knowledge in cloning, refreshing production applications and databases to non-production instances, automated cloning, and automated DB patching.
• Knowledge in software engineering for database intensive applications and general database administration in enterprise critical environments. Experience with developing and maintaining backend Java, NodeJS and .Net applications using relational and NoSQL database. Experience with frameworks like Spring, Spring Data. Experience with database migrations, source code management, code refactoring, SQL writing and optimization for various relational databases, high availability and performance tuning.
  Salary & Benefits: Join us in Dubai and enjoy an attractive tax-free salary and travel benefits that are exclusive to our industry, including discounts on flights and hotels stays around the world. You can find out more information about our employee benefits in the Working Here section of our website www.emirates.com/careers. Further information on what’s it like to live and work in our cosmopolitan home city, can be found in the Dubai Lifestyle section

IN THIS ROLE YOU WILL:

• Provide expert technical consultancy and guidance to EGIT dealing within the technology area and act as lead technical member in the project team delivering the work packages assigned.
• Develop IT Solutions that meet customer requirements. Ensure that the design is robust, appropriate and of high quality and conforming to corporate standards and in line with the technical strategy.
• Ensure that the developed architecture/solution meets the service level requirements in terms of expected availability, capacity, continuity, security, performance and reliability.
• Foster the development of high-performing technical teams to meet strategic architectural objectives.
• Develop solution architectures for assigned projects with the established EA standards and also support the development of technology advancements and adaptation of new technologies.
• Collaborate with other IT Technology teams to implement ongoing monitoring of the relevant technology to ensure level 1 & 2 incidents are configured within EMS.
• Guide Project Manager/Technology team managers for solution definition, technical design and development of in-house developed solutions. These are to be delivered as per agreed costs and timescales to meet signed-off functional, technical and process requirements.
• Ensure that assigned incidents are resolved within the agreed service levels and problems are defined and analysed in line with the Problem Management Process. Ensure that solutions to problems meet the architectural and security standards within the technology area and that impact on the business is minimised. Own and manage changes within the technology area.
• Publish and maintain high-quality documentation for the technology area. Working within the standard templates and documentation guidelines which includes detailed design, configuration details, support procedures, operations manuals and deployments architecture.
• Manage ?End-of-life? replacement of equipment and/or software within the technology area to ensure conformance to technical standards and support the technology initiatives and directions. Ensure the process and enhancement specifications are translated into effective programs with error-free code using the enterprise development tools, methods and languages.

QUALIFICATIONS & EXPERIENCE: TO BE CONSIDERED FOR THE ROLE, YOU MUST MEET THE BELOW REQUIREMENTS:

Degree or Honours (12+3 or equivalent) in Information Technology and 5+ Years of experience.