Senior Technical Software Engineer - Enterprise Performance Management

About
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.

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.

Key Responsibilities

• 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 the 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.
• Manage and mentor Software Engineers to allow for skill/knowledge development through advice, coaching, and training opportunities.
• Ensure optimal use of enterprise application platforms, tools, and libraries in line with the approved technology architecture.

Requirements

• Degree or Honours (12+3 or equivalent) in a relevant field such as Computer Science, Computational Mathematics, Computer Engineering, or Software Engineering.
• 5+ years of 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 teams for custom development of vendor products using the 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.

Work Conditions
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 hotel 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 it’s like to live and work in our cosmopolitan home city can be found in the Dubai Lifestyle section.