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Mission Planning System Software Engineer
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Solenix is specialized in the provision of highquality software engineering, technical consulting and operations services in the aerospace domain. This vacancy note concerns an onsite consulting position at EUMETSAT in Darmstadt, Germany. Mission Planning System Software Engineer 1613138 Job Description The key person will work in the TSS Department supporting the Mission Control Applications and Tools Team, which is part of the GSI Division. Some of your key tasks will include Maintenance and Evolution Activities Reengineering activities analysis of the porting of some subsystems to stateoftheart technologies, tradeoff studies of various technologies, software design of the technical solutions, following the procurement of the changes with external contractors and verification testing of the changes. Preventive and corrective maintenance including the investigation and correction or following the corrections implemented by external contractors of anomalies in the software facilities and verification testing of the fixes. Support and development of the verification infrastructure development andor procurement of scripts tools to perform installation checks, nonregression, functional and performance testing. Analysis and implementation of mechanisms or tools allowing the automatic or semiautomatic verification testing of the application software. Coordination of the production of new software releases or patches, delivery acceptance and installation onsite. This activity includes the technical coordination of the production by an external contractor of new releases or patches of the application software, liaison with the EUMETSAT operational users, participation in technical reviews, participation in factory at contractor premises acceptance testing campaigns and coordination of the installation of the releases or patches onsite at EUMETSAT. Support to new Missions PhaseB activities Requirements engineering Participation in the functional analysis and decomposition of the Ground Segment requirements in the domain of Mission Planning System. Support the definition of Ground Segment requirements in the area of the Mission Planning System. Participation in workshops and review meetings. Support the identification of the verification method and initial test cases for the Mission Planning System requirements. Incorporate the reuse of the EUMETSAT Mission Planning System kernel products in the Ground Segment requirements. Interfacing with the Mission Planning System kernel product experts in the MCA Team to coordinate their contributions to the requirements definition. System Architectural design Support the generation of the architectural system level design of the Mission Planning System as part of the Ground Segment. Support the production of design models using Systems Engineering and CASE tools. Support the definition and documentation of all interfaces IRDsICDs between the elements of the Mission Planning System and other Ground Segment or external elements. Support to new Missions PhaseCD activities Support to Mission Planning System implementation Support to the requirement and design engineering activities as part of the applications development. Participation and contribution in requirements, design and implementation reviews both internal and with external contractors. Follow the software development by external contractors of the Mission Planning System. Support to IVV and Acceptance Participation in verification readiness reviews and verification testing campaigns both internal and with external contractors. Technical coordination of the parallel activities involving the EUMETSAT Mission Planning Systems for LEO missions which include the maintenance and evolution for missions under routine operations, reengineering activities and the reuse of the EUMETSAT Mission Planning System in new Programmes. Required Skills and Experience A university degree in a relevant engineering discipline Demonstrate significant knowledge and experience in the area of specification, design, implementation, verification and maintenance of Mission Planning Systems. Specific skills and experience are mandatory in the following areas 1. Domain Skills Experience minimum 5 years in the definition of software requirements, architectural design, implementation and maintenance of Mission Planning Systems in the context of Low Earth Orbit LEO space missions. 2. Software Development, Verification Maintenance Skills Experience minimum 5 years in the full cycle of development and maintenance of application software, preferably for Mission Planning Systems, following formal software engineering processes. This includes user and system requirement analysis, software requirement engineering, software design, implementation, corrective and evolutive maintenance activities. Experience minimum 3 years in IVV integration, verification and validation activities, preferably for Mission Planning Systems, following formal engineering processes. This includes requirement verification, system and subsystem integration, generation of test plan and test procedures, nonregression testing, generation of test data, generation of test tools, running the test procedures on the target system, generation of test reports and anomaly tracking. 3. Software Engineering Skills minimum 3 years Designing and developing software applications using C and Java programming languages for UNIXLinux operating systems. Designing and developing software applications using interfaces to relational database management systems RDBMS and experience with data model design for RDBMS. Designing and developing software applications using JBoss Drools as business rule management system. Desirable Skills and Experience Domain Skills Experience in integration of Mission Planning Systems with Mission Control Systems based on MICONYS software suite from ESAESOC. Experience in integration of Mission Planning Systems with Flight Dynamics Systems. Experience in support to flight control operations teams for Mission Planning Systems. System Maintenance Skills Experience in being the technical point of contact for contractors working at offsite premises and responsible for application software evolution and maintenance. Software Technology Skills Experience in the usage of software CASE design tools e.g. Enterprise Architect andor MagicDraw. Experience in using Unified Modelling Language UML for software design. Experience in developing software applications interfacing with Oracle RDBMS. Experience with Oracle RDBMS administration. Experience with ILOG Views visualization library. XML processing schema design, validation, parser libraries, transformation XSLT and XPath. Experience in designing, developing and maintaining software client applications using Eclipse as HMI framework Rich Client Platform. Experience in designing and developing component based software applications using formal techniques e.g. OSGi. Experience using tools for the automation of software testing. Work Location Darmstadt, Germany Dates Application Deadline 27 September 2016 Start of Work January 2017 Important Notes Before applying to this position, please read the page Notes to Applicants on the Solenix website under Career. Applicants must be EU citizens or have a valid work and residence permit in Germany. Security, identity and reference checks on the candidates are part of the recruitment process. Job Application Please send your applications electronically to careersolenix.ch before the application deadline 27 September 2016 Learn more about us in Facebook
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