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.

Duties:

• Provides technical leadership and guidance to multiple development teams within the Platform & Application development organization.
• Works on unusually complex technical problems and provides solutions which are highly innovative and ingenious
• Propose architectural design in alignment with business requirements and able to justify technically the design considerations between the different available technologies.
• Assess, review, test and implement various architectures and design patterns and work with the delivery teams to ensure alignment to the architecture.
• Have oversight over the architecture, working with your technical leads to ensure the systems and solutions you develop are flexible, loosely coupled and deliver performance that is appropriate for business needs.
• Ensure an efficient software methodology is in place, aligned to agile / lean principles, learning, and iterating frequently, highly collaborative, and regularly improved.
• Picks up a software component and contribute to hands-on development.
• Align to the DevOps principles and tool sets being established with high degrees of automation throughout the development process. Continuous integration, continuous deployment and continuous operational monitoring are baseline goals.
• Ensure that security, reliability scalability and performance are embedded into the team skills, development process and architecture.
• Engage across the organization with business partners to gain buy-in on prioritization, with agreement on the key performance metrics which will be impacted.
• Measure and monitor the solutions you develop, regularly reviewing operational metrics to validate the effectiveness of your product in meeting customer needs.
• Excellent knowledge of modern platforms and tools, using the correct product where appropriate, especially open source and open standards
• Communicate through email, presentations, informal meetings right across the organization (including senior management and executive team) to share learning, insights and plans, gathering feedback and influencing in the process.
• Role model self-driven skill development within the team, promoting learning events and facilitating individual needs.
• Help develop and participate in wider skill development and recruitment activities such as hackathons, conference events, university partnerships, etc.
• Driving adoption of security controls in application development as part of the Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC)

Skills and Experience:

• Must possess at least a Bachelor’s degree in Computer Engineering/Science or equivalent.
• Must have 10+ years of industry experience in design and coding.
• Must be proficient in technologies like Angular(10+), Java , Spring Boot
• Knowledge of HTML, CSS, JQuery, JavaScript and TypeScript is must.
• Must have experience with automated unit test framework such as Jasmine, Jest, karma etc.
• Sound expertise in Linux with networking. Scripting, Debugging & Troubleshooting
• Should have working experience on build and release pipelines using CI/CD.
• Should have knowledge of Agile Methodologies and Pair Programming
• Good hands-on knowledge in modern API platform design, Web based applications
• Good hands-on experience in Microservices Architecture Patterns
• Knowledge of modern data architectures (e.g., event driven architectures, data democratization, platform approaches to support ML/AI at scale, stream processing, and integrating real time analytics into customer applications)
• Shall have working experience on non-relational databases like MongoDB.
• Shall have proficiency in application containerization using Docker
• Working experience on UX is added advantage.
• Should have working experience with version management tools like bitbucket/Git or similar).
• Must have thorough knowledge of public cloud service offerings (IaaS, PaaS, SaaS)
• Good knowledge Infrastructure as Software (Container Orchestration, Observability, CI/CD, Docker, Kubernetes etc.)
• Understanding of modern security practices
• Understanding of software quality assurance principles

• 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 translate general market requirements and customer needs into technical requirements (or roadmaps), ability to explain technical concepts to non-technical audience specially to explain economic benefits of the technical solution.
• Effective communication and presentation abilities
• Ability to work effectively under pressure to meet deadlines.
• Experience in digital development/security operations and end user market understanding customer needs and the solution requirements preferred
• Strong foundation in security technologies such as Web Security, Cloud services, Identity/Access Management, Web Application Firewalls, Intrusion detection etc

• 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:

• Must have demonstrable experience working on complex issues where analysis of situations or data requires an in-depth evaluation of variable factors.

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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