Principal Software Engineer

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Our Benefits

• Annual Bonus + Private Medical Insurance
• ThalesFlex – Hybrid work environment
• Fitness Passport Discount
• Employee discounts with several affiliates (Travel, Car hire, Tech, Medical Insurance)
• Modernised Paid Parental Leave
• Veterans Leave
• Novated Lease options
• Family support through our partnership with Parents at Work
• Personal & professional training development opportunities
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Our Team

From take-off to landing, Thales offers the most complete range of solutions to provide dynamic Air Traffic Services to support today's growing domestic and international travel requirements. Utilising this knowledge and experience Thales Australia will deliver a harmonised Civil/Military Air Traffic Management System (CMATS / OneSKY) in Australia to Airservices Australia and Defence. 

This will enable a new level of safety and efficiency, while also reducing delays for the travelling public and providing opportunities to improve environmental outcomes. OneSKY will transform Australia's sky, and we are proud to be partners in its delivery.

The Role

The Principal Software Engineer is integral to delivering the OneSKY system, which aims to transform Australian Air Traffic Management. This position specifically requires domain expertise in Air Traffic Management, with a focus on Flight Data Processing, alongside experience with large-scale systems and formal software engineering processes.

This is a hybrid role based in our Melbourne CBD office.

Some key responsibilities:

• Designing and delivering software to meet requirements including architecture, design, reuse, development, integration and verification
• Defining and 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

As part of your technical leadership you are also accountable for

• Provide technical leadership and training on technical tasks (complex logical & numerical algorithms / performance issues / external interfaces / …) and technical reviews (workshops, peer reviews and project reviews). if necessary, lead or be the technical lead of a small team
• To be recognised within the business as expert for large and/or complex assigned software components or feature(s).
• To mentor/coach assigned Software Engineers

Qualifications

Relevant bachelor's or master's Degree

Skills & Experience

• Domain expertise in Air Traffic Management, specially within Flight Data Processing
• Language: deep knowledge of Java
• IDE/CICD Tools: GIT, Bitbucket, Gradle, Cucumber, Jenkins, Eclipse, JIRA
• Experience with formal software engineering process and experience in the whole lifecycle
  • Writing & reviewing design, requirements, tests and code
  • TDD approach
• Experience in working large scale and distributed systems, being part of a greater whole than your component team or feature team
• Experience delivering technical training
• Devops culture and CICD methodologies
• Agile methodology: Scrum

A Defence security clearance is required for this role, applicants must be Australian citizens and eligible to obtain and maintain an appropriate clearance.

Additional information with regards to clearances is available from the Australian Government Security Vetting Agency website In some cases, individuals who hold a current clearance from a foreign government may be eligible to have this clearance recognised by the Australian Government and be eligible for this role.The Australian Defence Trade Controls Act (DTCA) is applicable and as such, your nationality may be a factor in determining your suitability for this role.

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