Senior Software Engineer

Job Summary

The Senior Software Engineer – TPF/ALCS will be a fully participating member of an agile feature team who works independently on software development and problem resolution and will be involved in technical design, software development, implementation and maintenance of software solutions/products that support the Emirates Group Business.

In this role, you will:

• Work with senior technical engineers in the technical design process by contributing to analyze technical application requirements.
• Convert technical solutions for small to medium-sized initiatives into low-level design and working code.
• Independently write secure and optimized code by implementing Emirates Group approved coding standards.
• Participate in rotational on-call support and actively participate in resolving production issues within SLAs with minimal or no active supervision.
• Responsible for built-in quality and ensuring 100% unit testing as part of the CI/CD pipeline.
• Analyse and fix all identified defects with minimal rework
• Ensure re-factoring practices are adequately adopted to ensure minimum code debt.
• Ensure logging and monitoring hooks are implemented in the code development.
• Continuously stay current with the relevant technologies and implement the learnings to enhance code quality.
• Adhere to the Emirates Group IT coding standards, guidelines, and best practices and contribute to Software Engineering Playbooks and other Standards documents.

Qualifications & Experience

To be considered for this role, you must meet the below requirements:

• Degree or Honours (12+3 or equivalent): Degree in a relevant field such as Computer Science, Computational Mathematics, Computer Engineering or Software Engineering.

Experience:

3+ years in the following

• Building and maintaining complex software solutions using Assembler(IBM HLASM) in an ALCS environment
• HLASM High level Assembly for development & supporting incidents
• Job Control Language and utilities for effective file handling including data transfer & offline data handling development in mainframe
• Restructur eXtended eXecutor (REXX) for automation & optimized ways of working
• ISO C for mainframe for enhancing the TPF/DF product.
• Java for mainframe for creating / enhancing interfaces in WAS-OLA, WAS-OLA platform support
• Usage of SPM for structured programme development and TPF/DF calls for database handling.
• Creation and Consumption of WAS-OLA services for DCS/FQT/RES domain
• Development and support of Airline Control System (ALCS) handling of the ALCS patch upgrades user exit and z/OS interfaces programming, z/OS 2.2, IBM Tivoli System Automation, MQ Queue creation, data transfer & monitoring, ZEN- IMPLEX & EXIGENCE network and TCPIP / OSA definition of access points, monitoring, investigating & fixing support incidents, GDPS data centre resiliency, WAS server configurations and maintenance.