SENIOR .NET SOFTWARE ENGINEER

Job Description

In fast changing markets, customers worldwide rely on Thales. Thales is a business where brilliant people from all over the world come together to share ideas and inspire each other. In aerospace, transportation, defence, security and space, our architects design innovative solutions that make our tomorrow's possible.

We are now seeking a Senior.Net Windows Software Engineer to join our Government Programs team in Bogota D.C.. You should have the ability to handle a fast-paced business environment and work collaboratively under tight deadlines, with a range of positions and levels of authority. You should also possess the qualities of excellent communications skills, organizational talents, efficient, conscientious, and reliable work habits.
Our team is responsible for the design and development of highly innovative components and products for our GP unit, from desktop applications integrating various hardware (biometric devices integration) to high performance server applications, including issuance of official documents in a very secure environment (PKI, encryption, cryptography).
A week in the life of a Senior .Net Windows Software Engineer:
- You will be part of the project team working on innovative solutions to issue government official documents
- You will d evelop .Net WPF applications
- You will participate in all the phases of the development process (Analyze, specifications, development, unit testing)
- Your activities will follow the Development Life Cycle process in place
- You will work closely to the technical leader to design and implement the features, and to the validation team to provide support during validation phases
- You will deliver high quality code within specified deadlines.
- You will report progress against deadlines as requested by management.
As part of the development team, you will participate in conforming to company standards and actively improving them
- To succeed at this job, you must have experience with .Net development, WPF, Winforms, MVVM, WCF
- It would be preferred if you have experience with Dependency Injection, XML, Entity Framework, REST architecture, experience with SQL server database. Web application development (ASP.NET, HTML and Javascript, Angular JS) is a plus
- You must be fluent in English.
- We would like someone to join our team who is a strong team-player with proven team development experience and a willingness to adapt to new technologies.
- You must have a Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science or Software Engineering.
- We are looking for someone with 5+ years of development experience, with good analytical mind and problem solving skills, able and willing to learn
- You must be able to travel up to 30% of the time domestically during the specification and integration phases and for workshops.
- You will have the possibility to grow professionally in the team and in the company

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