Delta IT is on a journey of transformation. We are changing the way we do business from top to bottom. As thought-leaders within Delta, we strive to create meaningful and innovative solutions and are looking for team members to help us realize our vision.
Delta IT employees are thinkers, doers, innovators. We are proactive. We are collaborative. We deliver impact to our customers.
Join us on our transformation journey in becoming a world-class IT organization at the worlds best airline!
The Revenue, Loyalty, and Data Analytics organization has invested in a diverse solutions team that advises businesses across the enterprise on technologies that power the availability and pricing of Delta’s flight products across our network, including spanet share forecasting, schedules availability, and competitive pricing and shopping engines.
The Senior Principal Software Cloud Engineer owns the technical strategy with software engineering solutions, specifically AWS cloud solutions, combining a high level of domain knowledge with solutions that drive change and innovation across business lines. This high-level role requires aptitude in understanding current business needs and anticipating future business needs, while designing integrated solutions that are agile and durable.
The ideal candidate is an innovative thinker who impacts the technical roadmap tactically, while maintaining the big picture ideas. Delivering thoughtful insight and design elements along with best-practice knowledge will be a core component and exciting body of work within the AWS portfolio.
Responsibilities include, but are not limited to:
- Leveraging expertise with AWS platforms and scaling solutions across the enterprise
- Knowledge of designing, prototyping, and demonstrating new features and components to of front-end and back-end to users to ensure compliance with requirements;
- Owns design, implementation, and optimization of software approaches, tools, and workflows.
- Deep understanding of risks and benefits for solutions recommended to different business units
- High level consultative interactions with business leaders and technical teams, defining and educating stakeholders on risks and benefits of solutions
- Platform architecture skills including site reliability engineering, quality and testing, system design and integration, and implementation from the ground up
- Utilizing technical domain knowledge to inspect current structure while balancing optimization for future state solutions
- Developing and defining business and technical operating procedures and standards
- Continuous ideation and decision making on new technologies towards implementation
- Ability to dig into a technical problem, lead troubleshooting sessions when necessary
- Collaborator, who wants to share what they’ve learned and continue learning themselves
- Deep sense of ownership and accountability
- Design the solutions to meet functional and technical requirements.
- Align to Security/Compliance frameworks and controls requirements.
- Own quality posture. Write automated tests, ideally before writing code.
- Mentors others writing code for software engineering products, including overseeing development of automated tests, delivery pipelines, and automated deployment scripts.