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A career at Hitachi Rail will help create a legacy. With operations in every corner of the world, our work goes to the cutting-edge of digital transformation and technology. From the multi-cultural strength of our global organisation to the sustainable and innovative ways we work to bring people together, there’s something for everyone to get stuck into. And that’s where you come in.
Toronto, Ontario, Canada (Hybrid)
As a member of a Vital Software Engineering team of support Ground Transportation Systems Canada, the Software Analyst candidate will work under the directives of a senior software Analyst in order to Specify, Design, Develop and Document software for our railways Software solutions.
We are looking for a Software Analyst to perform design, analysis, programming and integration activities in the development of software for train control systems of Ground Transportation Systems Canada, achieving Customer Satisfaction of the delivered solution/product.

Key Responsibilities:

• Understands the customer’s needs and through life cycle concerns whatever the used means (e.g. advanced studies, simulations, mock-ups, models, prototypes, etc.)
• Contributes to the formalization of mission/function description, architectural & algorithms design and the refinement of functional and non-functional requirements
• Designs codes, debugs, write test procedures and tests software code, chairs design reviews
• Reviews code, test procedures and test results
• Analyses and implements correction for defect reports
• Perform engineering testing in the field and investigates problems in the field
• Contributes in co-engineering activities with the Systems Engineering team in order to ensure system-software consistency and the right refinement of software components and compliance with the software architecture
• Solves tasks in the best technical and timely manner. Looks for opportunities and make suggestions for improvements

Required Skills and Experience:

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering or a closely related field
• Minimum of 1 year relevant working experience; relevant Academic Projects will be considered
• Entry level analysis skills, able to diagnose issues based on field logs and correlate events to failures
• Able to handle assignments within a small to medium scale software application
• Able to program on various operating platforms (i.e. Windows, Linux, etc.)
• Knowledgeable of the software development process
• Able to quickly integrate with the team and work independently
• Knowledge of software development environment (Microsoft Visual Studio, desktop simulator, target simulator, etc.)
• Experience in working within a team using Agile Methodologies
• Practical experience in using typical programs which are part of Microsoft Office Suite
• Entry level experience in development of software in C++ language including templates, STL, Boost, MFC usage
• Entry level experience in using scripting languages such as Perl and Ruby
• Entry level experience in development of software for embedded systems using programming languages such as C and C++
• Entry level experience on object-oriented programming, multithreading, socket programming, General Windows Programming

Preferred Skills and Experience:

• Entry level experience in development of software in Java, C#, Assembly and Python programming languages
• Entry level knowledge of railway signaling techniques including of SelTrac CBTC
• Entry level knowledge of WPF
• Practical experience with source control, IDE and requirements management tools (e.g. Eclipse, Jira, Git, ClearCase, ClearQuest, Doors, etc.)
• Desired experience with Angular web development including Typescript, WebSockets, Java-based backends
• Familiar with software building tools like gmake, MSBuild
• Entry level analysis skills, able to diagnose issues based on field logs and correlate events to failures

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• Understands the customer’s needs and through life cycle concerns whatever the used means (e.g. advanced studies, simulations, mock-ups, models, prototypes, etc.)
• Contributes to the formalization of mission/function description, architectural & algorithms design and the refinement of functional and non-functional requirements
• Designs codes, debugs, write test procedures and tests software code, chairs design reviews
• Reviews code, test procedures and test results
• Analyses and implements correction for defect reports
• Perform engineering testing in the field and investigates problems in the field
• Contributes in co-engineering activities with the Systems Engineering team in order to ensure system-software consistency and the right refinement of software components and compliance with the software architecture
• Solves tasks in the best technical and timely manner. Looks for opportunities and make suggestions for improvement