Software Developer Tech Lead Research & Innovation

Within the The European Green Sky Directorate, the EUROCONTROL Innovation Hub (EIH) carries out research, innovation and simulation activities to help improve European aviation performance, safety and sustainability, bridging the gap between R&D and operations. The EIH also addresses emerging new technologies as well as deployment of drones and urban air mobility systems.

You will join the Engineering Centre of Expertise (CoE) and play a pivotal role in designing, developing and implementing software solutions as part of EUROCONTROL’s innovation hub projects.

Your role will be to:

• Design, develop, deploy software and its architecture, and produce relevant documentation.
• Arbitrate technical solutions/options and document pros and cons.
• Coach, supervise, train and develop other software engineers.
• Manage Continuous Integration/Continuous Deployment (CI/CD) pipelines, deploy and monitor Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS), Platform as a Service (PaaS), and Software as a Service (SaaS) environments.
• Produce technical documentation, software development guidelines and best practices.
• Manage technical interactions with third party component, service providers and stakeholders; take a lead role in driving and contributing to technical discussions.
• Support project team(s) and users in demonstration/experimentation execution and capturing users’ needs.
• Monitor technological evolutions and trends, and identify opportunities to drive efficiencies and innovation.
• Carry out any other task in line with the main purpose of the job.
• REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS, EXPERIENCE & COMPETENCIES
• Completed university studies of at least 4 years (e.g. Master’s degree) in a relevant domain (e.g. software engineering, etc.).
• Internal candidates can check on the intranet to see what level of in-house experience is considered equivalent to educational qualifications where appropriate.
• A minimum of 5 years’ relevant professional experience to carry out the described tasks.
• Experience in server-side technologies; Java, Spring Boot, web services (WSDL, XML, REST).
• Experience in software development architecture.

The following would be an asset:

• Experience in browser technologies; HTML5/CSS, JS, REACT.
• Experience in container and cloud technologies: Docker, Kubernetes, Azure Cloud
• Experience in applying an Agile framework and related tools/ ceremonies.
• Knowledge of ATM systems and, in particular, the NM B2B service.
• Ability or experience in leading tasks, activities and/or (small) teams of software engineers. Experience would be considered an asset.
• Technical drafting skills (English).
• Analytical thinking: You analyse information and are able to identify relationships.
• Problem-solving: You anticipate and solve business problems.
• Creativity and innovation: You apply new approaches.
• Communication: You are able to foster two-way communication.
• Quality focus: You set and foster high quality standards.
• Ability to work in a multinational and multicultural environment.
• Professional conduct in line with the corporate behaviours of the Agency, i.e. result-driven, readiness to change, customer focus, integrity and team-player approach.

Source: https://jobs.eurocontrol.int/jobs/software-developer-tech-lead-research-innovation–noc-eg-2024-ad-798-1