Senior Technical Software Engineer

at  The Emirates Group

Job Purpose: Product Engineering - It is a Software Engineering portfolio under Emirates Group where we are hiring talented software engineers to develop and support a host of software applications that powers the growth of Emirates Airlines and group with business interest spanning from Passenger services, Airport/ground operations, Crew & Network Operations, Air Cargo Sales and operations, Holiday and Leisure products and services at global scale. Software is at the core to support this diverse, large, and complex business operations which are built using latest and modern technology stack including TPF/ALCS, ReactJS, AngularJS, NodeJS, Java Microservices, .Net, Python, Oracle, SalesForce, ERP suite etc following the best industry practices including DevSecOps and modern engineering practices.

IN THIS ROLE YOU WILL BE RESPONSIBLE TO:

Support in driving and implementing software engineering strategies, standards and guidelines in the assigned feature team. Collaborate with the team to develop business critical technical solutions through the application of software programming, robust engineering practices and built in quality. Job also includes planning/estimation, application development, deployment, release, hyper-care and operation of developed solutions. The job holder provides technical leadership to the assigned team in the software development lifecycle.

• Collaborate with the team to deliver technical design, development and deployment of complex solutions within relevant product.
• Carry out effective technical design reviews to ensure that the right architecture patterns are used by the team.
• Drive the adoption of Engineering practices , implement development process automation, lean software development, built-in-quality, test driven development, agile practices, and timely root cause analysis and blameless incident post-mortems.
• Partner with cross-functional teams to determine viability of solutions. Evaluate current problems, future requirements and existing solutions in medium to large projects to enable high level design and drive proof of-concepts and implement prototypes to validate ideas.
• Investigate, debug and fix complex issues involving corner cases and rare conditions. Support continuous improvement by investigating alternatives and new technologies and presenting these for architectural review.
• Contribute to sprint/work design and planning by providing subject matter expertise on business domain and relevant technologies and actively contribute to technology specific community of practices.
• Manage and mentor Software Engineers to allow for skill/knowledge development through advice, coaching and training opportunities. Responsible for their technical deliveries and adherence to design and coding standards and practices.
• Investigate, debug and fix complex issues involving corner cases and rare conditions. Support continuous improvement by investigating alternatives and new technologies and presenting these for architectural review.

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

• Bachelor’s degree or Honours with 5 + years of relevant experience in below mentioned areas:
• Building and maintaining complex software solutions using Assembler (IBM HLASM) i n an ALCS environment
• HLASM High level Assembly for development & supporting incidents
• Job Control Language and utilities for effective file handling including data transfer & offline data handling development in mainframe
• Restructur eXtended eXecutor (REXX) for automation & optimized ways of working
• ISO C for mainframe for enhancing the TPF/DF product.
• Java for mainframe for creating / enhancing interfaces in WAS-OLA, WAS-OLA platform support
• Usage of SPM for structured programme development and TPF/DF calls for database handling.
• Creation and Consumption of WAS-OLA services for DCS/FQT/RES domain
• API Development/API Security Compliance
  -Development and support of Airline Control System (ALCS) handling of the ALCS patch upgrades user exit and z/OS interfaces programming, z/OS 2.2, IBM Tivoli System Automation, MQ Queue creation, data transfer & monitoring, ZEN- IMPLEX & EXIGENCE network and TCPIP / OSA definition of access points, monitoring, investigating & fixing support incidents, GDPS data centre resiliency, WAS server configurations and maintenance
  -Development and support of DCS (Departure Control Systems domain - including Check-in, Boarding, Flight handling capabilities)

-Development and support of FQT (Fare Quote Ticketing and Pricing domain - that covers Fare quote, Itinerary pricing Ticketing ,Interline EMD, e-Ticketing, GDS Ticketing)

• Development and support of RES (Reservations domain including One Order and New Distribution Capabilities )
• Experience of developing advanced technology solutions for large, complex organisations in a multi-functional environment.
• Experience in providing production support for business solutions.
• Strong knowledge in Full stack development capabilities, technology evaluation, vendor selection and technology vendor management
• Experience in implementation of contemporary engineering practices like lean software development, test driven development, continuous integration and continuous deployment
• Experience in establishing and managing technology platforms for DevOps, Code Management, Testing, Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment

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