Senior Software Development Engineering

Purpose of the job

As a software development senior engineer you'll work in a Big Data environment, to lead supervise and contribute to building an elastic, high performance scalable applications.

You will be working with the team on problems involving large scale distributed systems, service-oriented architectures, data and metadata storage, computing infrastructure automation and more.

You will be expected to contribute to setting the standards, deliveries and process of the data platform engineering process. Training, leading and facilitating work for junior engineers. The candidate will play a vital role in leading the processes of mediating, governing and stewardship of corporate data sets. You will be working closely with the data analytics team to support mining, auditing, testing, researching and visualizing corporate data sets and with the business consumers and subject matter experts to drive smart data driven solutions and initiatives.

Duties and responsibilities

• Contribute in developing plans for the team according to the department strategic vision.
• Provide strong technical leadership to the team with a focus on quality, performance, and security.
• Foster a culture of creativity and innovation while also promoting practical decision making.
• Help growing the team by participating in the recruiting process.
• Collaborate with data scientists, data analysts, modelers and IT team members on project goals.
• Optimize the performance and support monitoring of data platform systems and computing infrastructure.
• Define and deliver on service availability and quality SLAs.

Job specification

Education

• Bachelor degree of Engineering in Computer Systems, or Computer Science.

Experience

• 5 to 7 years of hands-on software engineering experience
• Solid engineering fundamentals with extensive and strong software development experience.
• Experience coaching and mentoring junior software engineers.
• Experience and understanding of SDLC and Agile/Scrum procedures.
• Experience working in a big data environment and using big data tools is preferred.
• Experience with infrastructure as a code, automation and DevOps practices is preferred.
• Past experience in telecom operators and service providers is preferred.

Skills and abilities

• Very good English both written & spoken.
• Excellent collaboration and communication skills and comfortable working across multiple teams.
• Strong hands-on skill, can drill deep into complex systems design and implementation.
• Strong problem solving and troubleshooting skills.
• Excellent knowledge of database systems.
• Excellent programming and debugging skills.
• Good systems administration skills.

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