Software Engineer

Location: Singapore, Singapore

Thales people architect solutions that are relied upon to deliver operational advantage at every decisive moment throughout the mission. Defence and armed forces customers rely on us to deliver the full range of defensive systems for land, sea, and air. From early warning, to threat neutralisation, our platforms cover all levels from very short-range systems, to extended protection across the entire battle-space including Airspace Mobility Solutions, Vehicles and Tactical Systems and Missile Defence, Optronics, and Radar.

Thales established its presence in Singapore in 1973 to support the expansion of aerospace-related activities in the Asia-Pacific region. Throughout the last four decades, the company grew from strength to strength and is today involved in the primary businesses of Aerospace (including Air Traffic Management), Defence & Security, Ground Transportation and Digital Identity & Security. Thales today employs over 2,100 people in Singapore across all its business areas.

ROLE DESCRIPTION SUMMARY

You will be a member of the software squad which maintains and improves the TopSky ATC product and projects. As such, you will be supporting the program by analysing PCRs, ECRs, fixing PCRs, design & implementation of the ECRs. Additionally, you will need to participate in issue investigation as part of the quality engineering process. As a Senior Software Engineer, you will be actively involved in propagating & executing engineering best practices and should work actively within the System Engineering and SW disciplines to propagate them.

Immediate opportunities to upskill and learn the domain & life cycle of an ATM in operation will be provided via a learning mission in our AMS Headquarters in Singapore for a duration of 6-8 weeks. Here you will be guided in a structured regimen of theoretical and practical learning, with the goal of becoming an immediate contributor.

KEY ACTIVITIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES

As a Software Engineer, you are accountable for:

• Delivering software to meet requirements including architecture, design, reuse, development, integration and verification.
• Tailoring the software engineering environment and the process, practices and tools applicable to the project.
• Ensuring that the designed solution is developed according to design, schedule, cost and quality expectations.
• Identifying risks and proposing effective solutions; executing mitigation actions and reporting on outcomes and residual risks.
• Designing/Refresh engineering practices (e.g., “Coding Katas”, “Design Katas”) to improve the software engineering competencies with your team.

KEY KNOWLEDGE AND EXPERIENCE

To be successful in your role, you will have demonstrated and/or acquired the following knowledge and experience:

Qualifications

Relevant bachelor’s degree or Master Degree

Technical skills

• Must-have
  • Language: working knowledge of Java Core, Junit.
  • IDE/CICD Tools: GIT, Bitbucket, Jenkins, Eclipse, JIRA
  • Knowledge (big bonus if you have demonstrated experience) of formal software engineering process throughout lifecycle
    • Writing & reviewing design, requirements, tests and code
    • Debugging/Testing Strategies like blackbox, whitebox approaches
  • Agile methodology: Scrum
  • DevOps culture and CICD methodologies
• Nice-to-have
  • Participated in the software maintenance of the deployed systems and demonstrated proficiency in solving operational IS/IT issues
  • Experience in Test Driven Development, or Domain Driven Development
  • Language: any others like ADA, C++
  • Air Traffic Management domain knowledge
  • Experience in software development in a safety-critical environment

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