Senior Technical Software Engineer - TPF/ALCS - Emiratisation

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 Senior Technical Software Engineer.

Join our Software Engineering team, where we are always on the lookout for passionate and curious software engineering professionals who are driven to deliver a world-class experience to our customers. We are a diverse team that leverages modern technologies, engineering practices, and innovative approaches to build exceptional software products. Our technology stack currently includes React, Java 11-17, Node, TPF/ALCS, frameworks like Spring Boot, Solace, Relational databases (Oracle, SQL Server), non-relational databases (Couchbase, Elastic Search, Cassandra), APIs (REST & SOAP protocols) with OpenAPI Documentation and continually evolving with the industry and profession. If you are passionate about pushing the boundaries of technology and enhancing customer experiences, we invite you to apply to be part of our team shaping the future of aviation technology at Emirates Group.

The Senior Technical Software Engineer - TPF/ALCS will 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.

In this role you will:

• 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.