ATFM Software Engineer UAE National

Job Description

Location:

Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates

In fast changing markets, customers worldwide rely on Thales. Thales is a business where brilliant people from all over the world come together to share ideas and inspire each other. In aerospace, transportation, defence, security and space, our architects design innovative solutions that make our tomorrows possible.

Thales has built a presence in the United Arab Emirates for over 35 years, and today has over 300 employees. Thales in the UAE is part of our Middle East business that has 1,800 people across Egypt, Iraq, Kuwait, KSA, Lebanon, Oman, Pakistan, Qatar and UAE. Together we delivered technology for the Dubai metro, the longest driverless metro network in the world and a fare collection system that processes up to 250,000 transactions per day.

We make UAE a safer place by providing secure electronic payment solutions, cyber security systems and communications as well as security systems for Dubai International Airport and air traffic management and navigation systems for Abu Dhabi’s airport.

Every day, hundreds of thousands of airplanes take off and land around the world, and millions of passengers hope to arrive at their destination quickly, safely, and without delay.

As a global leader in Air Traffic Management, Thales AMSs software and hardware systems are deployed in 170 countries.

Top Sky - Flow Manager relies on Thales’ ATC, Safety and Security unique expertise in Air Traffic Management to help Air Navigation Service Providers monitor and regulate air traffic flows by managing the allocation of departure slots, arrival times, and en‑route delays to prevent congestion and maintain safe and efficient operations within the airspace system.

Thales and our partner are joining efforts to establish a new development center in the UAE. This collaboration aims to accelerate the development of advanced ATFM features within the Top Sky - Flow Manager suite and to deploy this new generation of ATFM services in this rapidly growing air traffic region.

This role will directly report to the onshore Software Engineering Manager for the assigned project within the UAE.

The Software Engineer must proactively work within an agile team on a service-oriented architecture. He must have practical understanding, be force of proposal, be open to change, continuously improving his technical skills and like to work in an agile environment.

You will contribute to the solution definition and development, in close collaboration with Product Owner and the Teach Lead of the team in UAE by:

• Contributing the transformation of some business needs to Technical Req and give inputs for planning together with the team members.
• Participating in the design and development of services, components by collaborating with other software solutions engineer to share knowledge and improve overall product/solution.

The Software Engineer must have the following competencies:

• Implement rich web interface development (JavaScript, HTML‑5, CSS3, VueJS, Angular).
• Implement software components developments (Java, Maven, Vert.x, Spring Boot, REST).
• Take part in continuous integration responsibility (Jenkins, Maven, Artifactory, Git, Jira, Sonar).
• Have ownership of his code, participate in the deployment and accompany it to production (practice in Ansible, Bash, SSH, Linux, Docker).
• Be an active part of the Agile team.
• Ensure the code best practices and rules, TDD, time commitments.
• Participate on technical decisions and be able to defend and justify his own and the team choices.
• Be the go‑to person for technical challenges.
• Write high quality documents (e.g. technical documents, Low Level Design, ICD, High Level Designs, How‑To documents, Software Requirement Specifications etc.).
• Adhere to project schedule, strategies, policies and constraints.

The candidate must have rich hands‑on experience in JAVA development and JavaScript frameworks (one of Angular, React

JS or VueJS).

• Master’s or Bachelor degree from an Engineering school and
• 3+ years experience in development with high fluency in Java and Web user interface…