Role: System Architect - Firmware
Location: Glasgow
This is an outstanding place to work!
It all starts with the people. You will love working with colleagues who have a genuine desire to innovate and seek out complicated problems. We each come into work every day trying to make the organization a little better than it was the day before. We ask the tough questions and push each other to be courageous. This occurs in an environment that cultivates authenticity and clarity. We believe in absolute inclusion and diversity. Qualitrol associates enjoy the autonomy, breadth of responsibility, and creativity that are typical in a medium-sized company, while sharing resources, standard methodologies, and career opportunities that are found in a Fortune 500 company like Fortive.
Your Impact
Our Engineering teams are vital to the success of our existing and emerging systems platforms. As part of this team, you will be able to develop new products and digital services as well as enhancements to existing ones that deliver on our customers’ experience. You will be asked to share innovative ideas that contribute to our culture of continuous improvement and focus on customer needs.
Most of your time will be spent designing high-quality software solutions to enable digital customer services based on established design standards. You can expect to be the owner and take accountability for the quality of your designs. You will become familiar with the markets we operate in and problems our products and services address. You will learn about the challenges and limitations of the existing systems and demonstrate your creativity and design aptitudes as you contribute to technology and system platforms roadmaps.
Responsibilities:
* Mentoring entry level Hardware and Software Engineering Associates
* Creating and reviewing commercial and technical requirements
* Developing architecture and coding in a variety of programming languages for an enterprise product suite which runs on multiple media platforms
* Collaborating with Product Managers and Sales team members to develop commercial and technical requirements for software applications and middleware used to deliver services to electric grid customers
* Leading architecture development with a team of system architects to develop high value solutions which delight customers consistent with the Qualitrol brand
* Creating code that meets Qualitrol coding standards, commercial specifications, and is easy to maintain
* Developing automated test plans for unit and integration tests to ensure that features work per defined use cases
* Ensuring that all designs are documented and reviewed
* Using the latest technologies such as code generation, SW containers to reduce implementation time and enhance software portability, AI for data analytics, etc.
* Mentoring entry level firmware developers on engineering and company best practices
* Creating product using a test-driven design approach
Qualifications - External
Skills & Experience:
* Bachelor’s Degree / Masters Degree in Computer Science or related field
* 5+ years of professional product development experience
* Clear understanding of software development practices and lifecycles
* Expertise in: C++, C#, C, Java, HTML, CSS, SQL
* Experience with generic messaging, .NET Framework 3.5 and the latest MS Visual Studio tools
* Strong knowledge of Object Oriented concepts
* Knowledge of database management systems
* Knowledge of service oriented architectures including microservices architecture
* Independent and motivated self-starter
* Visionary with focus on details
* Ability to work well within teams or individually
Preferred skills/experience:
* Experience with industry best practices
* Agile development methodologies
* Experience in building scalable enterprise solutions
Working Conditions:
* Hybrid
Fortive Corporation Overview
Fortive’s essential technology makes the world stronger, safer, and smarter. We accelerate transformation across a broad range of applications including environmental, health and safety compliance, industrial condition monitoring, next-generation product design, and healthcare safety solutions.
We are a global industrial technology innovator with a startup spirit. Our forward-looking companies lead the way in software-powered workflow solutions, data-driven intelligence, AI-powered automation, and other disruptive technologies. We’re a force for progress, working alongside our customers and partners to solve challenges on a global scale, from workplace safety in the most demanding conditions to groundbreaking sustainability solutions.
We are a diverse team 18,000 strong, united by a dynamic, inclusive culture and energized by limitless learning and growth. We use the proven Fortive Business System (FBS) to accelerate our positive impact.
At Fortive, we believe in you. We believe in your potential—your ability to learn, grow, and make a difference.
At Fortive, we believe in us. We believe in the power of people working together to solve problems no one could solve alone.
Fortive: For you, for us, for growth.
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