Principal Sofware Engineer for DB

Business Unit:

Cubic Transportation Systems

Company Details:

When you join Cubic, you become part of a company that creates and delivers technology solutions in transportation to make people's lives easier by simplifying their daily journeys, and defense capabilities to help promote mission success and safety for those who serve their nation. Led by our talented teams around the world, Cubic is committed to solving global issues through innovation and service to our customers and partners.

We have a top-tier portfolio of businesses, including Cubic Transportation Systems (CTS) and Cubic Defense (CD). Explore more on

Job Details:

Job Summary: Performs complex software engineering assignments following designated standards and procedures. Provides technical guidance and leadership, and mentors more junior members of the team. Conceptualizes, designs, codes, debugs and performs development activities in accordance with designated standards and procedures. Works closely with other engineering disciplines. This position typically works under general supervision and direction. Incumbents of this position will regularly exercise discretionary and substantial decision-making authority.

Essential Job Duties and Responsibilities:

• At least 10 years of good experience in Oracle as Primary with OGG.
• At least 4 years in PostgreSQL.
• Preferred to have experience on migrating oracle code base to PostgreSQL.
• Experience on database integration tool like Liquibase.
• Must have prior experience working on production environments.
• Need to have experience working with version control tools like Git and ticketing tools like Jira.
• Need to have experience with shell scripting.
• Should be quick to analyze and provide fix for critical issues.
• Good to have hands on with DBA activities.
• Need to have knowledge on AWS cloud technologies.
• Coordinates and develops project concepts, objectives, specifications and resource needs. Prepares design specifications, analyses and recommendations.
• Use current programming language and technologies to provide creative, thorough and practical solutions to a wide range of technical problems
• Design, develop and test applications and programs to support the company's products
• Design, develop and test software programs following established quality standards and in accordance with internal engineering procedures including coding, unit testing and software configuration control
• Complete high- and low-level detailed software design specifications, storyboards and interface specifications
• Provide support of products through conception to product delivery including problem solving, defect maintenance and support to customer services
• Prepare reports, manuals, procedures and status reports
• Participate and work with team members in code reviews and make necessary improvements in code
• Coaches and mentors junior team members
• Keeps abreast of improvements and developments within software engineering
• Supports bid and proposals and customer variation requests
• Supports and coaches more junior members of the team

General Duties and Responsibilities:

• Comply with Cubic's Quality Management System.
• Comply with Cubic Occupational Health, Safety and Environment policies and procedures.
• Comply with security in accordance with established policies and procedures of the organisations.
• Comply with Cubic Human Resources Procedures.
• Other duties as requested.

Qualifications

• Four-year college degree in computer science, computer engineering or other related technical discipline.

Skills/Experience/Knowledge:

• 10-12 years related experience.
• Experience with, and understanding of, the software development life cycle.
• Experience debugging and troubleshooting.
• Experience working within Agile/Scrum methodologies.

Personal Qualities:

• Effective written and oral communication skills
• Excellent problem-solving skills
• Team player
• Able to prioritize work, complete multiple tasks and work under deadline and budget guidelines.
• May be required to travel domestically and internationally to include working odd hours, in-line with customer requirements

Worker Type:

Temporary Worker