Location: Tubize, Belgium

Thales people architect solutions at the heart of the defence-security continuum. Interoperable and secure information and telecommunications systems for defence, security, and civil operators, are based upon innovative use of radiocommunications, networks, and cybersecurity. We are ground breaking new digital technologies such as 4G/5G mobile communications, cryptography, cloud computing and big data for use in physical protection systems, and critical information systems.

Thales Belgium SA, Belgium competence center of Thales, is a company located on 2 sites, one in Tubize (near Brussels) and the other one in Herstal (near Liège). Thales Belgium, which employs more than 280 collaborators, is specialized in the design, development and supply of critical information systems for customers in the sectors of Defense, Security (including Cyber) and Aerospace.

In this context, we are looking for a:

Senior Java Developer

Mission:

As a Senior Software Engineer, you will join the CRYPTO team to design and develop software solutions for our customers in Defense, Security and Aerospace domains.

You will work on projects which can be very different in nature, usually characterized by strong regulatory requirements and their complexity, such air traffic management, Key Management System, IP encryption devices…

You will develop using the newest features and development techniques.

Main Responsibilities:

As Senior Software Engineer, you will be responsible for:

• Technical design and implementation of applications

• Application management in an Agile development practice

• Software design and working with architects

• Participate in the entire development process

• Writing and execution of tests (unit, functional/functional, integration, etc.), and automating them if possible.

• Resolve incidents/root cause analysis in collaboration with teams

• Monitoring the life cycle of the different applications linked to the domain's activity.

• Write consumable documentation for sustainable knowledge management.

• Mentor and coaching of younger colleagues

• Peer review of code and architecture

Profile:

• You have a Bachelor's or Master's degree in IT orientation or equivalent experience.

• You have at least 6 years' solid experience as a Java/JEE developer.

• You act as a role model team member.

• You have experience in most of the following technical areas:
• Java (11+)
• Deep understanding of object-oriented programming
• unit testing/mocks, continuous integration, code versioning (Git), Agile…
• Network Protocols (TCP/UDP,…)
• API REST
• Thorough knowledge of Spring ecosystem (Sprint Boot, Spring Batch, Spring Security…)

• Knowledge in the following technologies is a plus:

• Concurrent, multi-threaded programming, and distributed systems
• Linux as target env

• Full professional proficiency in English. French and/or Dutch is a plus.

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