Software Engineer

Organizational Background

The Preparatory Commission for the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty Organization with its headquarters in Vienna, Austria is the international organization setting up the global verification system foreseen under the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty (CTBT), which is the treaty banning any nuclear-weapon-test explosion or any other nuclear explosion. The Treaty provides for a global verification regime, including a network of 337 stations worldwide, a communications system, an international data centre and on-site inspections to monitor compliance.

Organizational Setting

• This position is located in the Software Integration Unit, Software Applications Section of the International Data Centre Division (IDC).

Reporting Lines

• Under the supervision of the Head, Software Integration Unit, to:

Duties and Responsibilities

• Develop new software and maintain the configuration of the applications software of the IDC and carry out projects to integrate new algorithms developed internally or externally;
• Perform software development and maintenance and provide second level support for software systems in operation;
• Work in close collaboration with seismo-acoustic, radionuclide officers and other experts to develop software to execute analysis and visualization of seismic, hydroacoustic, infrasound, and radionuclide data and data products.
• Act as a project manager and technical lead in software development projects, facilitating communication and collaboration with internal and external, possibly geographically dispersed, teams developing scientific software.  Guide projects from initial procurement, through development, testing, and integration using an Agile project development approach.
• Integrate and release software from external contributors into the International Data Center (IDC) environment following established IDC Change Management procedures. Ensure all integrations meet high standards of quality and reliability.
• Implement refactoring and redesign measures to maintain and enhance the architecture of IDC software as a whole, in particular to reduce code duplication and improve maintainability and extensibility.
• Perform other duties as assigned.

Education

• University degree in computer science, mathematics or a related field.
• Work Experience and Qualifications
• At least 5 years of recent professional experience developing and testing software on UNIX and Linux systems;
• At least three (3) years of recent experience using Python programming languages.
• At least three (3) years of recent experience using Java programming language.
• At least three (3) years of recent professional experience with SQL and database programming, ideally using Oracle and/or PostgreSQL databases, experience designing data access layers and data models for an application;
• At least three (3) years of experience with Agile software development methodologies such as Scrum;
• Knowledge of web-based internet application development architectures;
• Experience using the C/C++ ,  Perl and UNIX shell scripting languages is an advantage;
• Experience working with seismic, hydroacoustic, infrasound, or radionuclide data is desirable.

Languages

• Excellent written and oral communication skills in English are essential.
• Knowledge of other official CTBTO languages (Arabic, Chinese, French, Russian and Spanish) is desirable.

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