Job Description

Thales people architect identity management and data protection solutions at the heart of digital security. Business and governments rely on us to bring trust to the billons of digital interactions they have with people. Our technologies and services help banks exchange funds, people cross borders, energy become smarter and much more. More than 30,000 organizations already rely on us to verify the identities of people and things, grant access to digital services, analyze vast quantities of information and encrypt data to make the connected world more secure.

Present in India since 1953, Thales is headquartered in Noida, Uttar Pradesh, and has operational offices and sites spread across Bengaluru, Delhi, Gurugram, Hyderabad, Mumbai, Pune among others. Over 1800 employees are working with Thales and its joint ventures in India. Since the beginning, Thales has been playing an essential role in India’s growth story by sharing its technologies and expertise in Defence, Transport, Aerospace and Digital Identity and Security markets.

POSITION TITLE

Senior Technical Lead

REPORTS TO

Senior Project Lead/Engineering Manager

POSITION TYPE

Permanent

POSITION SUMMARY

Have you ever wondered what it takes to provide comprehensive cybersecurity to the world’s largest, and most demanding organizations? Thales is a global leader in data protection and cybersecurity. We provide solutions for defense, critical infrastructure, and telecommunication operators, industrial and financial companies. We provide best in class security practices in consulting, professional services, design, implementation, and other security services.

We are currently looking for a Senior Technical Lead to join our team. The Senior Software Engineer will join our development team to design and implement management application software for a security product. He/She will work closely on systems, software, and security.

Main RESPONSIBILITIES

• Work on well-defined projects with minimal supervision. Work effectively with peers and senior members of the development team.
• Write functional design specs and unit test plans. Analyze and code complex modules, define data structures, and specify test tools.
• Focus on design and architecture that is cloud-ready, scalable and doesn’t have any performance bottleneck with large load.
• Use test-driven methodologies and automation in the design and development phase to ensure quality before hand-off to Quality Assurance.
• Work closely with other developers and product management to evaluate new feature requests.
• Keep up-to-date and flexible with technologies in the fields of client-server development, security, technology frameworks, and infrastructure
• Contribute to the development and achievement of organizational goals and objectives. Accountable for delivery of subsystem, anticipate issues and addresses proactively
• Maintain a learning curve, so that you can advance in your career. Identify areas of improvement within the product and propose solutions.
• Demonstrate good judgment in making design choices. Ability to work on a diverse set of problems and provides input that influences technical decisions.

A week in the life OF SENIOR Technical ENGINEER: 

• You need to be agile. You will actively work on products you will be part of. Irrespective of technology, you need to solve problems.
• You will manage code and be proud of your code and take full responsibility for your approach.
• You need to improve our solution consistently to make them robust and more customer-friendly.
• You will operate independently to contribute to the development of new approaches and techniques.
• You will participate in short term planning of engineering projects and programs.
• You will be responsible for participating in analysis and determination of overall software design trade-offs on a project.
• You will be required to ensure the company's products remain marketable and competitive.

MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS: EDUCATION, EXPERIENCE, and SKILLS:

EDUCATION

• Bachelor’s or, Master’s degree in computer science or, related discipline

EXPERIENCE

• 8 years’ experience with a Bachelor’s degree
• 5 years’ experience with a Master’s degree

SKILLS

• Security software and domain
• Cloud technologies and paradigm
• SAFe agile software development experience
• Strong problem solving and debugging skills
• Solid programming skills in C and C++
• Experience of Linux kernel, drivers and debugging
• Strong understanding about different Linux file system and network file system
• Experience of machine learning and artificial intelligence will be advantage
• Experience of working on project with processing, analysis and protection of huge data, experience on Hadoop, Cassandra, HBase, and MapReduce
• Experience of server-client architecture using secure communication
• Experience of driving end-to-end project component development

At Thales we provide CAREERS and not only jobs. With Thales employing 80,000 employees in 68 countries our mobility policy enables thousands of employees each year to develop their careers at home and abroad, in their existing areas of expertise or by branching out into new fields. Together we believe that embracing flexibility is a smarter way of working. Great journeys start here, apply now!

Skills Required

• Linux