Principal Software Cloud Engineer, AWS Solutions

Delta Air Lines - Atlanta, GA

Full-time - Senior

Atlanta, GA

Air Transportation

About the position

Delta IT is on a journey of transformation, 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, and innovators who are proactive and collaborative, delivering 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. This includes 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 an aptitude for 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

• Leverage expertise with AWS platforms and scale solutions across the enterprise.
• Design, prototype, and demonstrate new features and components to users to ensure compliance with requirements.
• Own design, implementation, and optimization of software approaches, tools, and workflows.
• Understand risks and benefits for solutions recommended to different business units.
• Engage in high-level consultative interactions with business leaders and technical teams, defining and educating stakeholders on risks and benefits of solutions.
• Utilize platform architecture skills including site reliability engineering, quality and testing, system design and integration, and implementation from the ground up.
• Inspect current structure while balancing optimization for future state solutions.
• Develop and define business and technical operating procedures and standards.
• Engage in continuous ideation and decision making on new technologies towards implementation.
• Lead troubleshooting sessions when necessary and dig into technical problems.
• Collaborate and share knowledge with team members while continuing to learn.
• Demonstrate a deep sense of ownership and accountability.
• Design solutions to meet functional and technical requirements.
• Align to Security/Compliance frameworks and controls requirements.
• Own quality posture by writing automated tests, ideally before writing code.
• Mentor others writing code for software engineering products, including overseeing development of automated tests, delivery pipelines, and automated deployment scripts.

Requirements

• 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.
• 6+ years of experience with the architecture and design of AWS cloud solutions, applications, integrations, and platform engineering.
• Demonstrated ability to mentor and develop junior engineers and developers with best practices.
• Experience defining and maintaining accountability to architectural design patterns and serving as a technology domain's subject matter expert.
• Professional experience working with Agile Methodologies is required.
• Experience working with DevOps principles, practices, and tools in an enterprise technology environment is required.
• Experience engineering software within an Amazon Web Services (AWS) cloud infrastructure or other prominent enterprise cloud provider is required.
• Foundational knowledge of Software Development Lifecycle, building CI/CD pipelines, and practicing Test Driven Development is a requirement.
• 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).
• Embraces diverse people, thinking, and styles.
• Consistently prioritizes safety and security of self and others.

Nice-to-haves

• 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

• 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.