Senior Technical Software 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’.
Emirates Group IT thrives on the dynamic nature of technology. Being pioneers in aviation innovation, we’re always at the forefront, pushing boundaries. We’re on the lookout for exceptional IT professionals to fortify our position as leaders in the industry. Embark on a journey with the world’s largest international airline and become a vital part of our cutting-edge information and technology team as a Senior Technical Software Engineer - Enterprise Performance Management.
The Senior Technical Software Engineer - Enterprise Performance Management role is to support in driving and implementing software engineering strategies, standards, and guidelines in the assigned feature team. In the role you will collaborate with the team to develop business-critical technical solutions through the application of software programming, robust engineering practices, and built-in quality. This role 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 .

5+ YEARS OF EXPERIENCE IN THE BELOW AREAS:

• Experience in Financial Planning systems covering Budgeting, Forecasting, Financial Modeling, Analytics and Consolidation
• Good understanding and experience in transforming and implementing multi-dimensional structures using modelling tools to support business processes.
• Experience in working closely with vendor team engaging for required custom development of vendor products using latest technology and UI frameworks of Java, .NET etc.
• Experience in backend databases like Oracle, SQL or similar RDBMS DB, Restful API Services, HTML5.0/CSS3 with proficiency in code quality measurement tools.
• Application Lifecycle Management activities including version control, data import, testing, and deployment.
• Strong understanding of CI/CD and DevOps principles.
• Strong agile development and systems analytical skills.
• Team player with a problem-solving attitude using variety of software.
  Leadership Role: No
  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

YOUR MAIN RESPONSIBILITIES WILL BE TO:

• 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.
• Ensure optimal use of enterprise application platforms, tools and libraries in line with the approved technology architecture.
• Be responsible for corrective, adaptive, preventative and perfective maintenance of products in collaboration with other capabilities for the relevant product.

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

Degree or Honours (12+3 or equivalent) in a relevant field such as Computer Science, Computational Mathematics, Computer Engineering or Software Engineering.