Principal Software Cloud Engineer, AWS Solutions

How you'll help us Keep Climbing (overview & key responsibilities)
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 world's 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 market 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.


What you need to succeed (minimum qualifications)
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Bachelor's degree in computer science, Information Systems or related technical field * 10+ years of professional experience in software architecture or senior software engineering capacity at enterprise scale

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6+ years of experience with the architecture and design of AWS cloud solutions, applications, integrations, sand platform engineering
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Demonstrated ability to mentor and develop junior engineers and developers with best practices
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Experience defining and maintaining accountability to architectural design patterns and serving as a technology domain’s subject matter expert
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Professional experience working with Agile Methodologies is required.
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Experience working with DevOps principles, practices and tools in an enterprise technology environment is required.
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Experience engineering software within an Amazon Web Services (AWS) cloud infrastructure or other prominent enterprise cloud provider is required
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Foundational knowledge of Software Development Lifecycle, building CI/CD pipelines and practicing Test Driven Development is a requirement.
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Fundamental Awareness of Application Security principles and 12-factor application development principles is required. * Experience with source control, build tools, and GIT (GitHub, Bitbucket or other)

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Embraces diverse people, thinking and styles * Consistently makes safety and security, of self and others, the priority


What will give you a competitive edge (preferred qualifications)
* Master’s or graduate degree in Computer Science, Information Systems or related technical field is preferred.
* 15+ years of professional experience in software architecture or senior software engineering capacity at enterprise scale is preferred
* 10+ years of experience with the architecture and design of AWS cloud solutions, applications, integrations, security and platform engineering
* Experience working in an airline technology environment is preferred.


Benefits and Perks to Help You Keep Climbing
Our culture is rooted in a shared dedication to living our values - Care, Integrity, Resilience, Servant Leadership, and Teamwork - 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%
* Paid time off including vacation, holidays, paid personal time, maternity and parental leave
* Comprehensive health benefits including medical, dental, vision, short/long term disability and life benefits
* Family care assistance through fertility support, surrogacy and adoption assistance, lactation support, subsidized back-up care, and programs that help with loved ones in all stages
* Holistic 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 members
* Career 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 footprint
* Business Resource Groups created to connect employees with common interests to promote inclusion, provide perspective and help implement strategies
* Recognition rewards and awards through the platform Unstoppable Together
* Access 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