SENIOR SOFTWARE ENGINEER CAM CONTRACT

SENIOR SOFTWARE ENGINEER (CAM)

REPORTS TO FUNCTIONAL MANAGER – SOFTWARE

LOCATION: WESTERN CAPE

SALARY: NEGOTIABLE

JOB DESCRIPTION

The Main Purpose of this role:

Prototyping and software development of the telescope operational software (all stages of the full software development life-cycle may be encountered)
Provide hands-on technical support in the system administration of the hardware platforms, deployment environments and processing, which may include site visits to the Karoo
Collaborate with departmental stakeholders to support engineering, commissioning, operations and early science activities
Assist in maturing of software development and quality assurance processes towards greater standardization and improved long term maintainability and robustness
Facilitate coding standard compliance and code reviews, which include mentoring junior engineers
Compile document sets
Provide project management and progress reporting input as required by the Functional Manager and for team communication
Participate in development of project schedules and activities
Participate in the development of budgets and cost/benefit analysis for compliance with project procurement policies
Make technical decisions independently without direction from Technical lead
Has deep understanding of version control to the point of being able to help out junior and software engineers
Innovate independently towards improving the software

QUALIFICATIONS AND EXPERIENCE

Eng / B.Sc Hons (Comp Science) with 9+ years; OR
Eng / [URL Removed] (Comp Science) with 7+ years; OR
PhD / [URL Removed] with 5+ years
Experience in a software engineering environment, preferably in an engineering development project environment with a strong software focus
Python or C/C++ programming language and experience in development, testing, development, commissioning, release and support of large scale projects in Python or C/C++
Technical knowledge of development in Linux operating systems (experience in system administration of such will be beneficial)
Technical experience in architecture design and development of large software projects (experience with control and monitoring will be beneficial

Desirable Additional Educational, Work Experience, and Personal Qualities

Understanding and experience in implementation of project management and system engineering principles
Experience with test-driven development and integration testing techniques, methodologies and frameworks; and supporting systems like revision control and build systems
Experience with quality assurance processes and software development processes and willingness to participate in improving software development processes and software quality procedures
Willingness to play a leading role in mentoring juniors
Ability both to work independently and be a good team player
Ability to participate and thrive in a collaborative environment
Self-motivated and an ability and willingness to self-train and up-skill independently
Keen attention to detail
Strong oral and written communication skills

THE IDEAL CANDIDATE WILL HAVE THE FOLLOWING COMPETENCIES

Ability

Experience

Quality assurance processes and software development processes
Programming in the Python programming language
Development, testing, deployment, commissioning, release and support large scale projects
Developing applications targeted for the Linux operating system
Implementation of project management and system engineering principles
Test-driven development and integration testing techniques, methodologies and frameworks and supporting systems

Knowledge

Modern software collaboration tools such as Github, Containers, Google Drive, JIRA
Python programming language.

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