Lead Software Engineer

  • Full-time
  • Grade: 10
  • Employee Group: Permanent
  • Global Region: Asia Pacific

Company Description

Every minute of every day, Smiths Detection’s threat detection and security screening technology helps to protect people and infrastructure, making the world a safer place. 

Smiths Detection, part of Smiths Group is a global leader in the development, manufacture and management of security and detection solutions designed to make the world a safer place. Our technology provides threat detection and screening solutions for customers in our key markets: aviation, ports and borders, defence, and urban security.

Our expertise spans 21 global offices, seven manufacturing sites and five R&D centres, with a global network of 3,000 dedicated colleagues contributing towards over 40 years at the frontline of advances in safety and security.  

This results in careers built on variety and the opportunity to work on a range of state-of-the-art solutions, where you can develop your knowledge and experience every day.

Job Description

Duties:

  • Delivering key features and improvements on projects.
  • Support/implementing customer-specific projects.
  • Design, simulate, test & record results to verify requirements
  • Follows policies, processes and standards to achieve excellence the discipline
  • Working with the service team to address the escalated customer issues.
  • Gathering detailed information about reported problems to facilitate debugging/resolution.
  • Documenting recurring issues to help identify patterns and propose long-term solutions
  • Debugging logs, system behaviour, and historical data to identify root causes.
  • Contributing to projects by addressing customer feedback, resolving defects, and enhancing existing features.
  • Mentoring team members on technical aspects of the projects
  • Assisting junior members with implementations & debugging
  • Collaborating with QA & Coordinating and managing major releases, ensuring all planned features are tested and delivered
  • Leading sprint planning meetings to define the scope of each sprint.
  • Collaborating with the team to estimate effort and assign tasks.
  • Ensures adherence to business policies, Legal requirements, Ethics.
  • A self-starter with the ability to manage your time effectively, keen attention to detail and use your own initiative 
  • Effective communication skills at all levels of the organization and collaborative abilities.
  • Excellent communication skills particularly in English (fluently spoken and written) in addition to any local language spoken at the place of work.
  • The ability and motivation to persistently pursue and achieve / drive effective results which drive the business forward.
  • Collaboration and Influencing with a Global mindset, cultural awareness.
  • Proven matrix and stakeholder management skills/experience working virtually in diverse teams.
  • The ability to make effective, timely decisions in a complex, global market by sourcing and analysing critical information. 
  • The understanding and recognition of the organisation’s commercial environment and positioning themselves, their role and their actions in order to support the organisation’s commercial success.
  • The ability to engage, challenge and work effectively with others.
  • The ability to build an effective network of relationships both internally and externally, understanding their customers’ needs.
  • Willing and able to identify and support change and continuous improvement in own and wider business environment.
  • Ability to interact with cross functional teams in a matrix environment.
  • Ability to work in an international and multi-cultural environment

Professional competencies

  • Ability to be resourceful as well as strong at probing and translating information into insight
  • Substantial experience of creating multi-platform propositions within a creative environment which supports the market and industry teams
  • Experience of collaborating in a cross functional and cross-cultural organisation, with the ability to support the bridge between the markets (sales) teams and the industry (vertical) teams.

Planning and Decision Making:

Driving Backlog Grooming Sessions:

  • Organizing and facilitating regular backlog grooming sessions with the team.
  • Collaborating with the team to refine and prioritize user stories & defects.

       Driving Sprint Planning Meetings:

  • Leading sprint planning meetings to define the scope of each sprint.
  • Collaborating with the team to estimate effort and assign tasks.
  • Ensuring the team’s commitments align with sprint goals and project deadlines.
  • Documenting recurring issues to help identify patterns and propose long-term solutions

Impact and Scope: What level of impact local office, regional, division, group

  • A20 lane project is a critical project, and we see a plenty of work for this FY year. Need a senior member to become a key interface with other stakeholders like service, quality and IR. Need a technically sound and he has accumulated good knowledge of System/Software of low energy products, assisting junior members for implementations & debugging.

 

Key Internal and External Relationships: 

  •  Working with the service team across the globe to address the escalated customer issues.
  • Investigating and analysing field issues reported by customers.

 

Qualifications

 

  • Must possess at least a Bachelor’s degree in Electrical/Electronics Engineering and/or Computer Engineering/Science or equivalent.
  • 10+ years industrial experience of embedded technologies
  • Experienced in following formal development processes
  • Has designed, implemented and tested (on real machines: elevators, motors, aircraft, etc.) FSMs in professional life either in C/C++/Pascal/Ada/Delphi
  • Experience all aspects of finite-state machines (FSMs)
  • Expertise in C/C++, Python and shell scripting
  • Experience of object-oriented development and design patterns.
  • Competent to debug,troubleshoot and finding root cause of complex problems and the fix the issues
  • Experience of test-driven development
  • Experience of networking technologies
  • Experience of developing for RTOS, Bare Metal or Linux embedded target environments
  • Experience of kernel configuration and driver development
  • Understanding of PLCs development
  • Experience in Linux application programming
  • Strong understanding about Inter-process communication
  • Very good experience in Agile and SAFe methodologies

Additional Information

We offer…

Join us and we’ll help build your career, with excellent training and opportunities for career growth across the business, both locally and globally. You’ll experience an inclusive environment, with strong leadership and a focus on safety and wellbeing. You’ll also have the flexibility to choose from a wide range of benefits to suit your lifestyle, offering you and your family support from a health and wellbeing, financial and lifestyle perspective.

Join us and work for a world-leader, with the benefits and training to reward your dedication and skills. Be part of a team where we are making the world a safer place.

We believe that different perspectives and backgrounds are what make a company flourish. All qualified applicants will receive equal consideration for employment regardless of color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, economic status, disability, age, or any other legally protected characteristics. We are proud to be an inclusive company with values grounded in equality and ethics, where we celebrate, support, and embrace diversity.

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