How youll help us Keep Climbing (overview & key responsibilities) At Delta Air Lines, connection is at the heart of everything we do and guides our every action. We strive to welcome and care for all our customers during their travels with us and aim to deliver an elevated experience. Delta is focused on sustaining a strong IT operation, growing our capabilities, and maximizing optimization across each of our tech hubs to elevate the travel experience for our customers and empower our 90,000 Delta people. We’re committed to fostering innovation, and we’re excited to invite you to be part of our journey as we shape the future of technology at the world’s best airline!The Portfolio Architect owns technical decisions and directions for their portfolio. Designs applications and platforms required to automate business processes and meet business needs as an integrated solution. The resulting design may run on multiple platforms and may be composed of multiple software packages and custom components. Assumes overall technical responsibility for the success of cloud / non-cloud solution construction, implementation and system integration. This resoruce will be responsible for backend Delta.com and Fly Delta Mobile App domain. Responsibilities include, but are not limited to:Architectural Design: Develop and maintain architectural blueprints for software solutions, ensuring alignment with business goals and technical standards. Cloud Integration: Leverage AWS services to design and implement cloud-based solutions, including EC2, S3, Lambda, RDS, ROSA and more.Java Development: Lead the development of high-performance applications using Java, ensuring code quality and best practices, ensuring a high level of quality code for each assigned project. Technical Leadership: Provide guidance and mentorship to development teams, fostering a culture of innovation and excellence.Collaboration: Work closely with cross-functional teams, including product managers, developers, and operations, to define business needs and ensure seamless integration and delivery of software solutions.Performance Optimization: Identify and address performance bottlenecks, ensuring applications run efficiently at scale.Security: Implement security best practices to protect data and applications, including encryption, access controls, and compliance with industry standards.Documentation: Create comprehensive documentation for architectural designs, development processes, and operational procedures.Keeping abreast of, recommending and driving new technologies towards implementation and exploitation.
Benefits and Perks to Help You Keep Climbing Our culture is rooted in a shared dedication to living our values – Care, Integrity, Resilience and Servant Leadership – every day, in everything we do. At Delta, our people are our success. At the heart of what we offer is our focus on Sharing Success with Delta employees. Exploring a career at Delta gives you a chance to see the world while earning great compensation and benefits to help you keep climbing along the way:Competitive salary, industry-leading profit sharing program, and performance incentives 401(k) with generous company contributions up to 9 New hires are eligible for up to 2-weeks of vacation. This is earned for use in the following vacation year (April 1 – March 31)In addition to vacation, new hires are eligible for up to 56 hours of paid personal time within a 12-month period10 paid holidays per calendar yearBirthing parents are eligible for 12 weeks of paid maternity/parental leaveNon-birthing parents are eligible for 2 weeks of paid parental leaveComprehensive health benefits including medical, dental, vision, short/long term disability and life insurance benefitsFamily care assistance through fertility support, surrogacy and adoption assistance, lactation support, subsidized back-up care, and programs that help with loved ones in all stagesHolistic Wellbeing programs to support physical, emotional, social, and financial health, including access to an employee assistance program offering support for you and anyone in your household, free financial coaching, and extensive resources supporting mental health Domestic and International space-available flight privileges for employees and eligible family membersCareer development programs to achieve your long-term career goals World-wide partnerships to engage in community service and innovative goals created to focus on sustainability and reducing our carbon footprintBusiness Resource Groups created to connect employees with common interests to promote inclusion, provide perspective and help implement strategiesRecognition rewards and awards through the platform Unstoppable TogetherAccess to over 500 discounts, specialty savings and voluntary benefits through Deltaperks such as car and hotel rentals and auto, home, and pet insurance, legal services, and childcare
What you need to succeed (minimum qualifications) 7 or more years in a Software Architecture or senior Software Engineering capacity at enterprise scale, with a strong focus on AWS and Java.Experience with the architecture and design of enterprise software solutions, applications, integrations, security and platform engineering is required. Demonstrated ability to mentor and develop staff Software Engineers with best practices and leadership.Experience defining and maintaining accountability to Architectural Design Patterns and serving as a technology domain’s escalation point.Proficiency in AWS cloud services (EC2, S3, Lambda, RDS, etc.).Experience with infrastructure as code (IaC) tools such as Terraform or AWS CloudFormation.Advanced knowledge of Java programming language and frameworks (Spring, Hibernate, etc.).Experience with microservices architecture and containerization (Docker, Kubernetes).Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines and DevOps practices.Highly proficient with leading Agile methodologies, DevOps principles, practices and tools in an enterprise technology environment is required.Expertise in Application Security principles and 12-factor application development principles.Excellent problem-solving and analytical skills.Strong communication and interpersonal skills.Ability to work collaboratively in a fast-paced environment.Execute with a Sense of Urgency.Consistently prioritizes safety and security of self, others, and personal data. Embraces diverse people, thinking, and styles. Possesses a high school diploma, GED, or high school equivalency. Is at least 18 years of age and has authorization to work in the United States.
What will give you a competitive edge (preferred qualifications) Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Information Systems or related technical field is preferred.Experience working in an airline technology environment is preferred.AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Professional or AWS Certified DevOps Engineer – Professional.