Senior Software Engineer (Java/Linux)

Your new company

12 months Long-term contract with extension options

Hybrid Working Arrangements

Daily Rates-800 - $1000 per day

Applicants must be Australian citizens and able to obtain and maintain a security clearance.

An excellent opportunity is available for a Senior Software Engineer to contribute to strategic technology and digital initiatives within a complex, regulated environment.This is an opportunity to join a highly respected engineering organisation operating within the Air Traffic Management, Flight Control and Aerospace domain. The organisation has approximately 500 employees globally , with around 80% of the engineering capability based in Australia .

Your new role

Working closely with business stakeholders, technical specialists, project teams, vendors and delivery partners, you will:

• 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
• The ideal candidate will come from a complex, engineering-led environment where software is developed for mission-critical or safety-critical systems. Strong backgrounds include industries such as aerospace, defence, aviation, air traffic management, telecommunications, rail signalling, industrial control systems, embedded systems, real-time systems, and safety-critical software engineering

As part of your technical leadership you are also accountable for

• Providing technical leadership and training on technical tasks (complex logical & numerical algorithms / performance issues / external interfaces / …) and technical reviews (workshops, peer reviews and project reviews).

What you'll need to succeed

To be considered, you will have:

Must-have

• Language: deep knowledge of Java
• IDE/CICD Tools: GITLab, Gradle, Cucumber, JIRA, IDEs (Eclipse, IntelliJ, VSCode)
• 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.
• Agile methodology: Scrum
• Devops culture and CICD methodologies

Nice-to-have

• Language: any others
• Framework: Micro services, Swing, JavaFX, Core Java
• Environment: Kubernetes, Helm, Kafka, RHEL, Rocky Linux
• Scaled agile experience: Less, SAFe or other
• ATM domain knowledge
• Experience in software development in a critical safety environment

Experience within complex and engineering-focused, involving large-scale, mission-critical systems where reliability, safety and performance are paramount. This is not a typical web development environment. Engineers are expected to understand the business domain, operational logic and system behaviour, rather than simply working with a technology stack.

What you'll get in return

• Two potential 12-month extensions.
• Opportunities available for Melbourne Based Applicants only.

What you need to do now

If you're interested in this role, click 'apply now' to forward an up-to-date copy of your CV to [email protected] .