Principal Software Engineer

Emirates

Dubai, UAE

Ref: SP063-01

Job description / Role

Employment: Full Time

• Lead technical design and build for complex solutions across teams.
• Review and approve technical design. Carry out effective design reviews to ensure that the right architecture patters are used by engineering teams.
• Technical stewardship of a subset of technology area.
Use expert knowledge of the technical stack and design principles for the components in the technology area to solve complex business issues.
• Represent software engineering in cross business area initiatives.
• Champion automation and lean software development, test driven development, timely root cause analysis and incident post-mortems.
• Help define and refine the software and data engineering playbooks for use by relevant people in Technology.
• Lead discovery phase of medium to large projects to come up with high level design, partnering with cross-functional teams.
• Drive proof-of-concepts and implementing prototypes to validate ideas.
• Investigate, debug and fix complex issues involving corner cases and rare conditions.
• Drive built in quality in engineering teams in collaboration with end to end quality assurance.
• Mentor and coach engineers on writing clean code and debug complex cases.
Teach and help developers test their code better and influence developers to write tests and review their work
• Develop accelerator framework and practices to improve quality of technology solutions and productivity of engineers.
• Develop optimal technical design and high-quality code for technology products that passes the QA requirements and is production deployment ready.
• Carry out functional, non-functional and performance testing in using appropriate automation tools.
• Measure and monitor engineering metrics that enable agility, scalability, data quality and reliability of technology solutions across the enterprise.
• Responsible for technical debt remediation strategy and execution with support from environment management, service management, infrastructure management and cyber security.

Requirements

Qualifications You’ll Need To Have:
• Degree or Honours (12+3 or equivalent) in Computer Science, Computational Mathematics, Computer Engineering or Software Engineering.

Experience You’ll Need To Have:
• 8+ years of experience in Information Technology Software
• Software Engineering
• Deep experience in designing, developing and maintaining advanced technology solutions for large, complex organisations in a multi-functional, Tier0 environment.
• Experience in agile ways of working
• Implementation of contemporary engineering practices like lean software development, test driven development, continuous integration and continuous deployment

Skills You’ll Need To Have:
• Team player with a problem-solving attitude using variety of software
• Experience in influencing business and cross functional stakeholders
• Excellent written and verbal communications

About the Company

Based in Dubai, the Emirates Group operates a diverse business portfolio and its main activities are the provision of services in the air transport and travel industries. The Group comprises of Emirates airline and dnata, and their subsidiaries. Emirates is the world’s largest international airline, providing air passenger and cargo services to more than 140 destinations across six continents. dnata is a leading global air and travel services provider. It offers quality and safe ground handling, cargo, travel, catering and retail services in 38 countries across six continents. For more information visit: https://www.theemiratesgroup.com

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Software Engineer salaries in UAE

Average monthly compensation
AED 9,500

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