Delta Airlines

United States, Georgia, Atlanta

Information Technology

21-Jan-2026

Ref #: 31146

How you'll help us Keep Climbing (overview & key responsibilities)

This role is responsible for designing, building, and maintaining scalable, secure, and highly available systems aligning with Delta standards. The ideal candidate will lead the end-to-end applications development, translating architectural designs into functional, high‑quality code.

The position requires strong capability across both frontend and backend technologies, ensuring that performance, security, and scalability are consistently prioritized throughout the development lifecycle.

Additionally, the candidate is expected to help bridge the gap between traditional enterprise architecture and emerging machine learning capabilities, enabling the organization to modernize systems and leverage intelligent, data-driven solutions.

Key Responsibilities

• Design and develop API integration interface with multiple Observability and ITSM platforms to extract telemetry for operational visibility.
• Build responsive, high-performance user interface using modern frameworks.
• Design and deploy cloud native applications in Red Hat OpenShift Service on AWS (ROSA).
• Plan, design, implement and maintain automated solutions to replace manual processes.
• Design and develop applications, tooling, and enhancements, focusing on clean, efficient, and well-documented code across the full technology stack.
• Design and implement intelligent features by integrating Large Language Models (LLMs) or generative AI APIs into the application ecosystem.
• Work closely with software developers, product managers, and application teams to integrate automation into the full lifecycle of a project.
• Provide technical leadership and mentoring to engineering teams in back-end architecture, development, and operational excellence.
• Server as a senior SME for Automation practice, providing guidance on best practices and architecture decisions.
• Define, document, and enforce security standards, procedures, and access controls to ensure integrity.

Benefits and Perks to Help You Keep Climbing

This role is responsible for planning, designing, and implementing secure, scalable cloud-native solutions within the Operations environment, ensuring alignment with AWS and Delta standards. As a senior subject-matter expert (SME) in AWS cloud development and architecture, you will provide Service Assurance and Operational technical leadership, mentor engineering teams, and collaborate across architecture, application, infrastructure, and security groups to deliver resilient, compliant cloud solutions.

Expertise in AWS AI services, intelligent agents, and data lake house architectures is essential. Practical experience with deploying cloud-native apps and managing Red Hat OpenShift Service on AWS (ROSA) is also vital to be successful in this role.

Key Responsibilities

• Plan, design, and implement cloud-native solutions while maintaining architectural integrity and security controls to protect information and ensure compliance with AWS and Delta standards.
• Serve as a senior SME for AWS, providing guidance on best practices and architecture decisions.
• Provide technical leadership and mentoring to engineering teams in cloud application architecture, development, and operational excellence.
• Design and develop cloud-native applications, tooling, and enhancements, focusing on clean, efficient, and well-documented code across the full technology stack.
• Produce enterprise-level architectures for AWS deployments, including AI services, cloud-native, and ROSA, collaborating closely with application, infrastructure, security, architecture, and operations teams.
• Drive continuous improvement and steady-state operations for cloud services supporting globally distributed solutions, including enhancements to custom-built utilities and integration with AI components.
• Coordinate across architecture, infrastructure, application, and security teams to ensure the timely and successful delivery of secure, scalable solutions.
• Define, document, and enforce security standards, procedures, and access controls to ensure integrity.
• Own solution implementations, upgrades, enhancements, and migrations; recommend and evaluate technology options as appropriate.
• Strategize and provide a forward-looking perspective on emerging technologies and services, aligning them with the organization's roadmap to ensure continual innovation and competitive advantage.

What you need to succeed (minimum qualifications)

• 7+ years of IT experience, including 4+ years of hands-on software development.
• Demonstrated AWS cloud experience in AWS Lambda functions, AWS RDS, AWS Cloud formation, AWS S3 and Infrastructure as Code.
• Strong understanding of web services, APIs and microservices architectures.
• Expertise with AWS AI services, intelligent agents and MCPs
• Experience deploying and supporting Red Hat OpenShift on AWS for high traffic, production workloads.
• Working experience with scripting languages such as Java and Python.
• Experience with data serialization language YAML and data interchange format JSON.
• Experience with version control Git and collaborative workflows GitHub/GitLab
• Excellent analytical skills, capable of creating scalable processes and methodologies in an Agile environment.
• Database experience with relational databases, PostgreSQL, MySQL and/or NoSQL.
• Experience diagnosing and tunning SQL queries.
• Working knowledge of IT monitoring and observability tools like Dynatrace, Prometheus, AWS CloudWatch, IBM SevOne and PagerDuty.
• Ability to clearly communicate technical challenges and solutions to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• A Proactive approach to problem-solving with the ability to foresee how changes impact the entire ecosystem.
• 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)

• AWS Certified Professional.
• Strong background in cloud-native architectures.
• Experience with containerization tools like Docker or Kubernetes.
• Experience working with AI orchestration frameworks.

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