SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT ENGINEER

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Job Description:

Business environment

Airline business is going through a complete retailing transformation to address expectations customers are now used to in retail: workflow efficiency and control, price transparency, social networks interactions, personalization, etc…

In this context, Order Management System (OMS) is essential to deliver the true value of this transformation. And our group, ORR-OMS, is in charge of building the Amadeus one.

Following 2020 production that helped building the first system bricks, our team is now focused on making the product ready for airlines in production achieving the key objectives of openness, simplicity and agility. Last but not least, the group is organized in full agile setup and our transformation to SAFe will be held this year.

Purpose

Joining OMS, you will be working in an agile team that is designing, developing, validating and maintaining core components of the OMS, with notably:

  • Core order system to manage orders data and life cycle
  • Integration with NDC layer of the order suite via RTL backend: storage, fulfillment, …
  • Interactions with other suites needed throughout the handling of our orders: offer suite, revenue accounting, payment, operations suite, etc…
  • Interactions with the PSS (a.k.a. Bimodal) to leverage all PSS capabilities for a seamless transition while offering new capabilities via OMS

To fulfill those objectives, you will be working on state-of-the-art technologies and concepts, including, but not limited to:

  • Skube SDK at OMS heart using Quarkus
  • Mixed Event Driven (based on Java microservices) and Service Oriented Architectur
  • Kafka streaming technology
  • Cloud native development on top of ACS based on Kubernetes and OpenShift
  • Open API with REST JSON over HTTPS
  • Full CICD stack to ensure seamless code deployment and validation from developer machine to actual end to end platforms

As a Software Development Engineer, you will be accountable for the technical design, development and delivery of the product functionalities based on the solutions agreed with stakeholders. Within the group, you will help driving architecture decisions with the support of our architects. You will also work jointly with your product definition analysts and QA counter parts and ensure a seamless development and deployment lifecycle along with our DevOps. Within Amadeus, you will be working closely with teams across multiple sites, applications and groups (R&D, SRE).

We are looking for a developer, willing to build from his/her own experience in order to apply his/her knowledge in a challenging and interesting context. So, if you’re willing to:

  • Look for technical challenges working on highly interesting and cutting-edge technologies!
  • Provide to airlines the state-of-the-art products they need in their transformation. Come and join us in DDO!

Key accountabilities

By joining OMS-DDO team, you will have a unique opportunity to participate in the design and development of a strategical new system for Amadeus. Your deliverables and support will be key in the success of Amadeus Order Management System initiatives. As a Software Development Engineer, you will be in charge of the design and delivery of some key components and you will be involved in the global architecture definition. To take up this challenge you will need to:

  • Be passionate about and committed to delivering high quality software
  • Be able to deliver high quality results in a fast paced, changing environment with shifting priorities
  • Be able to face and solve different kind of problematics we encounter daily on this new and innovative stack
  • Think and code like a designer/architect
  • Design elegant and workable software solutions, both on an application and system-wide level,
  • Document, develop, implement and unit test software modules
  • Implement efficient data models both in application BOM and Data Base Models
  • Consistently meet established deadlines
  • Maintain timely reports on status of projects, potential technical problems and any other relevant details

Maintain and optimize:

  • Troubleshoot and investigate defects raised by our customers to ensure compliance of our products to the specifications and system integrity
  • Debug efficiently
  • Create and update standardized documentation
  • Conduct routine performance analysis and optimize software

Collaborate:

  • Work closely with Product Management, Technical Business Analysts, Quality Assurance and Global Operations to create and develop high quality code for internal/external customers that works and is consistent with requirements documents
  • Collaborate with your fellow team members, to benefit from their knowledge and different backgrounds, and bring your own assets to the team
  • Coordinate cross team/cross area development with other teams and developers.

Specific competencies

  • Java, and to a less extent, Python
  • Kafka and streaming concepts knowledge is a plus
  • At ease with cloud computing (virtualization, containers, cloud native architectures). OpenShift experience a plus.
  • MongoDB experience is a plus
  • Experience with DIH/Pulse is a plus
  • Experience in Agile methodology
  • Wide functional knowledge of Amadeus products (offer, order, operations suite) is a plus
  • Autonomy, self-motivation and pro-activity
  • Accountability, commitment to deliver durable work of quality, ready to embrace challenges.
  • Customer focus, dynamic/creative way of working
  • Flexibility, adaptability to fast changing business and technical environment
  • Team player, multicultural approach, eager to learn from other and share knowledge
  • Analytical and conceptual thinking, information gathering
  • Good written and oral communication abilities

Education

Degree in Computer Science, or equivalent, or other significant industry experience Fluent English

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