Senior Digital Engineer

Description

Job Description

Hitachi Rail is looking for an enthusiastic self-motivated Senior Digital Engineer who thrives in a fast-paced environment. The successful candidate is comfortable performing a wide range of tasks from administrative to strategic. The position is based in Naples.

Who We Are

 

Hitachi Rail is a fully integrated, global provider of rail solutions across rolling stock, signalling, service & maintenance, digital technology and turnkey. With a presence in 38 countries across three continents and over 13,000 employees, our mission is to contribute to society through the continuous development of superior rail transport solutions.

Accountabilities

Demonstrable software engineering experience with a proven track record of specification, design and development of complex software in the transport and ticketing sector Analyse and compile system, subsystem requirements specifications and design definitions Compile use cases for multi-tenant (IaaS/SaaS/PaaS) platform requiring high performance, scalability and availability Provide software architecture, cloud and distributed systems expertise and work with internal/external parties to ensure development activities are aligned with scope, schedule, priorities and business objectives Complete high and low level technical design specifications, storyboards and interface specifications for the software to be developed Design/oversee high level and low level software components, write high-quality software that will perform at scale, be supportable and extensible Design, develop and test applications and programs to support the software products Design, develop and test software programs, including coding, unit testing and software configuration control Provide support of software products through conception to product delivery including problem solving, defect maintenance and operational support Maintain deep technical analysis of software designs for all areas including security, software patterns, cloud infrastructure, data modelling, resilience and scalability Prepare reports, manuals, procedures and status reports, including, ability to create and review reports, technical documents, test specifications, contracts and proposals Share technical expertise within the department and other internal/external parties as requested

Required Skills/Knowledge

Experience in producing requirements, high and low level design/test documentation Experience in developing, releasing and maintaining large scale distributed cloud-based applications with a major cloud provider (e.g. AWS, Azure etc.) Hands-on design, coding, integration and deployment experience in enterprise applications Experience of C/C++, Java, Python, Go, multi-threaded programming etc. Experience in XML, JSON, JavaScript, CSS, HTML etc. Experience in exposing web services, such as, JAX-WS/REST Experience in Web Service Security (WSS) and PKI infrastructures Experience with REST API design and development, Software Containerization and Serverless Computing Experience with SQL/NoSQL databases, Spark, Hadoop, PostgreSQL (table design, queries, query optimisation) or other distributed frameworks Experience of containerization platforms like Docker and implementing them in a microservices distributed cloud architecture

Education/Qualifications

Degree in a Computer Science or an Engineering subject

 

Languages
 

Fluent Knowledge of English (written & spoken).

We thank all applicants for their interest; however, only those under consideration will be contacted. Join us at www.careers.hitachi.com/

It is our commitment at Hitachi Rail to create a diverse environment and we are proud to be an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, disability, age, or veteran status.
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