Senior Technical Software Engineer

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.

In this role you will:

• Lead the discovery phase of small to medium projects to come up with high level design. Partner with the Product Managers, Architects and others in the team.
• Lead technical design and build for medium to large sized solutions in a team. Translate complex functional and non-functional requirements into fit for purpose technical design.
• Debugging and solving issues and follow design documents and implement/test codes and make design decisions while coding and using strong coding principles. Own any feature of the solution end to end.
• Enable test automation while ensuring the CI/CD pipeline is always in good health and is responsible for the technical design and high-quality coding for technology products that passes the QA requirements and is production deployment ready.
• Automate testing and carry out functional and performance testing in collaboration with test engineers and quality assurance.
• Build, maintain and operate technical environments for software development, continuous integration and continuous deployment for data solutions.
• Contribute to software and data engineering playbooks for use by relevant people in information technology and data scientists in the business.
• Contribute to sprint/work design and planning by providing subject matter expertise on business domain and relevant technologies and contribute to software engineering organisation in relevant technology and ensures participation in cross skilling using expertise.
• Support acceptance testing of the technology solutions by the business ensuring the technology solution meets the business requirements. Drive corrective, adaptive, preventative and perfective maintenance of solutions with support from environment management, service management, infrastructure management and cyber security.
• Network with senior internal and external colleagues in area of expertise. Work with others to identify trade-offs or potential conflicts between functional goals and objectives.
• Solve complex issues where analysis of situations or data requires an in-depth evaluation of variable factors. Exercises judgment in selecting methods, techniques and evaluation criteria for obtaining results.

Qualifications & Experience: To be considered for the 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 or other relevant areas.
• Minimum 5 years of experience in Backend Application Development, primarily in Java (versions 8, 11, or 17) with Spring Boot for microservices and familiar with Code Quality measurement tools such as SonarQube.
• Must have broad expertise or unique knowledge in:
• Frameworks/Libraries/Language: Java 8-17, Test Frameworks, Solace, ShiftLeft, SonarQube, Tibco, Kafka, Spring cloud, Spring Boot Webflux, ELK/EFK, Netflix OSS, Docker, Kubernetes, OpenShift.
• Database: Expertise in backend databases like Oracle SQL or similar RDBMS DB, NoSQL, Spring JPA/Hibernate, Restful API Services.
• Principals: SRE, Code Review, Event Driven Micro-Services development, Reactive programming, Solution design, hybrid cloud architecture.
• Experience in developing and maintaining advanced technology solutions for large, complex organisations in a multi-functional environment.
• Strong understanding of CI/CD and DevOps principles, with the ability to write code suitable for continuous integration and testing.
• Technology evaluation, vendor selection and technology vendor management.
• Implementation of contemporary engineering practices like lean software development, test driven development, continuous integration and continuous deployment.
• Establishing and managing technology platforms for DevOps, Data Pipelines, Code Management, Testing, Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment.
• Team player with a problem-solving attitude using a variety of software.
• Strong agile development and systems analytical skills.
• Experience in providing production support for business solutions.

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.