Job Description

Wabtec Corporation is a leading global provider of equipment, systems, digital solutions and value-added services for freight and transit rail. Drawing on nearly four centuries of collective experience across Wabtec, GE Transportation and Faiveley Transport, the company has unmatched digital expertise, technological innovation, and world-class manufacturing and services, enabling the digital-rail-and-transit ecosystems. Wabtec is focused on performance that drives progress, creating transportation solutions that move and improve the world. Wabtec has approximately 27,000 employees in facilities throughout the world. Visit the companyxe2x80x99s new website at: .

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Position Title: Software Engineer (South Africa)

Location: Midrand

Department: Engineering

Reports To: Software Engineering Manager

Approved by: Senior Engineering Director

Scope/Job Objective

Software Engineers will design, develop, and test software for a variety of products and services including software on embedded platforms.

In this role, you will utilize domain experience or expertise to solve problems, develop and execute objectives for yourself and others, and have the ability to effect short-term and long-term business goals.

Being in country and remote from the global engineering team, the incumbent is expected to perform mine site verification for, and oh behalf of the global engineering team.

Duties and Responsibilities

• Work with Customers (Internal and potentially external) to create use cases and derive and document requirements (product, test, install and support requirements)
• Work Closely with the broader engineering team to create optimum hardware/firmware solutions for PC and embedded products.
• Perform software system decomposition and design, defining interfaces and test cases.
• Design, implement and test software/firmware ensuring requirements and quality standards are achieved.
• Program in C++, C, on multi-threaded, multi-process applications, components, and interfaces.
• Work closely with the S/W team Lead and test teams to ensure developments meet the requirement specification.
• Participate in design and code reviews.
• Operate as Wabtecxe2x80x99s in-country engineering representative, provide system/site verification and validation as required to support the global engineering team.

Qualification and Skills

Be with a minimum of 5 years of industrial experience working with embedded software/industrial communication products.

Mine site aware. The position will require mine site inductions and medicals, and remote site work.

Technical Expertise:

• Experience in embedded Linux for mobile applications.
• Experience with QT framework to target cross-platform devices.
• Experience in working with serial communication protocols.
• Experience in working with networking and industrial Ethernet-based communication protocols.
• Knowledge of the Telematics domain is a plus.
• Working Knowledge of the industrial ethernet, WIFI and LTE data networks.
• Experience in the usage of tools GIT, Rally and Agile development methodology.

Special Requirements

Business Acumen:

• Demonstrates the initiative to explore alternative technology and approaches to solving problems.
• Skilled in breaking down problems, documenting problem statements and estimating efforts.
• Has the ability analyze the impact of technology choices.
• Demonstrates knowledge of technical topics, such as caching, APIs, data transfer, scalability, and security.
• Skilled in negotiation to align stakeholders and communicate a single synthesized perspective to the scrum team.
• Balance Value propositions for the competing stakeholders.
• Demonstrates Knowledge of competitive environment.
• Demonstrates knowledge of technologies in the market to help make by vs build recommendations, scope MVPs, and to drive market timing decisions.

Leadership:

• Ability to take ownership of medium-sized tasks and deliver while mentoring and helping team members.
• Ensures understanding of issues and present clear rationale.
• Able to speak to mutual needs and win-win situations.
• Uses two-way communication to influence outcomes and ongoing results.
• Identifies misalignments with goals, objectives, and work direction against the organizational strategy.
• Makes suggestion to course correct.
• Continuously measures deliverables of self and team against scheduled commitments.
• Effectively balances different, competing objectives.

Personal Attributes:

• Strong oral and written communication skills.
• Curiosity to learn.
• Strong interpersonal skills.
• Effective problem-solving abilities.
• Persist to completion, especially in the face of overwhelming odds and setbacks.
• Pushes self for result; pushes others for results through team spirit.

Wabtec Corporation is committed to taking on the worldxe2x80x99s toughest challenges. In order to fulfill that commitment we rely on a culture of leadership, diversity and inclusiveness. We aim to employ the worldxe2x80x99s brightest minds to help us create a limitless source of ideas and opportunities. We believe in hiring talented people of varied backgrounds, experiences and stylesxe2x80xa6people like you! Wabtec Corporation is committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity or expression, or protected Veteran status. If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation, please let us know.

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