How You'll Help Us Keep Climbing (Overview & Key Responsibilities)
Role Summary
The Delta Vacations IT team works towards creation, enhancement, and support of our portfolio of B2B partner portals, self-service applications, and Incentive systems. This role requires a passion for building and delivering applications and systems that our customers and stakeholders love. This position will contribute technical expertise to design and develop business, application, data, and infrastructure solutions, seek opportunities to optimize performance, maintain and troubleshoot application components as required, quickly resolve problems and provide timely follow-up. This development role will be responsible for developing and implementing Java/JEE applications and microservices for modernization of our legacy systems.
Responsibilities
- Provide technical leadership and coaching to team members
- Build industry standard APIs, Integration Design Patterns and Enterprise grade systems capable of serving large customer bases.
- Drive, influence, and support API quality standards
- Establish a culture of software craftsmanship best practices, including Test Driven Development, Continuous Integration, and Continuous Deployment Engage in Agile software development activities, including sprint planning, daily standups, retrospectives etc..
What You Need To Succeed (Minimum Qualifications)
- The Engineering Leader position requires a BS / MS degree in a technical or scientific field with 12+ years of overall relevant experience.
- 12 or more years of experience in Java application development
- 3 or more years of experience developing with RESTful web services
- 3 or more years of experience with SQL or NoSQL DBMSs (Cassandra, Mongo DB)
- 2 or more years of experience with SDLC (TDD, Automation, Agile, and DevOps).
- 2 or more years of experience working with a cloud platform, preferably AWS.
- 3 or more years of demonstrated technical leadership skills
- 3 or more years of managing a team of technical professionals
- 5 or more years of experience in roles that require strong interpersonal communication and collaboration skills
- 5 or more years of experience in roles that required strong analytical and problem-solving skills
- Experience in Team Leadership: Managed, mentored, coached and developed teams, fostering a collaborative and creative work environment
- Experience in Resource Allocation, Capacity Planning & Resource utilization
- Experience in Performance Management by providing regular performance feedback, recognizing achievements and addressing areas for improvement.
Behavioral Competencies:
- Ability to champion a collaborative environment by empowering team members, demonstrating resilience, being inclusive and building a culture of trust.
- Ability to build and sustain robust networks across internal and external stakeholders.
- Being a coach/mentor/advisor to drive continuous team development and growth.
- Use systemic thinking to drive business results and strategic decisions that enhance organizational outcomes.
- Ability to advocate for customer-focused innovations, model empathy in decision-making, inspiring others to approach problems from the customer’s perspective and decisions that reflect an uncompromising commitment to customer safety, fostering trust and loyalty.
Preferred Qualification
What Will Give You a Competitive Edge (Preferred Qualifications)
- Experience with B2B Sales and Support, Contracting and Incentive, and Web Portal applications.
- Airline, or Transportation industry experience.
About The Company
Delta Air Lines (NYSE: DAL) is the U.S. global airline leader in safety, innovation, reliability and customer experience. Powered by our employees around the world, Delta has for a decade led the airline industry in operational excellence while maintaining our reputation for award-winning customer service. With our mission of connecting the people and cultures of the globe, Delta strives to foster understanding across a diverse world and serve as a force for social good.
In 2024, Delta was recognized by Fortune with a No. 11 placement on Fortune’s Top 50 Most Admired Companies list. The company’s strong management and commitment to providing elevated experiences and premium products also secured a No. 1 ranking out of the eight airlines on the list. Delta landed on TIME’s inaugural list of the “World’s Best Companies,” coming in at No. 12 – the only U.S. airline in the top 155. TIME’s award is based on three criteria: employee satisfaction, revenue growth and sustainability.
Delta’s people-first culture continues to be recognized, earning the airline a spot on Fortune’s 100 Best Companies to Work For® list for the fifth year. Delta is the only airline included on the 2024 list.
Additionally, Delta earned a coveted spot, on Fast Company’s list of the Most Innovative Companies, climbing from its No. 8 spot in 2023 to No. 2 in the travel category. The airline was recognized for its Wi-Fi revolution that is working to ensure the future of travel is connected.
About The Delta Technology Hub (DTH), Bangalore
Delta has fast emerged as a customer-focused, innovation-led, technology-enabled business. The Delta Technology Hub will contribute directly to these objectives. It will sustain our long-term aspirations of delivering niche, IP-intensive, high-value, and innovative solutions. It supports various teams and functions across Delta and is an integral part of our transformation agenda, working seamlessly with a distributed team to create memorable experiences for customers.
Why join?
- Technology is a key enabler of the differentiated services that Delta provides. At the DTH, you get the opportunity to work on projects with a significant impact on business outcomes and customer experience.
- Deepen your knowledge by taking part in multifaceted learning and development programs –exposure to extensive internal and partner repositories, institutional affiliations, and industry SIG (Special Interest Groups) partnerships.
- Collaborate with research, innovation and IP co-development partners.
- Immerse yourself in an employee-centric culture.
- Develop deep and broad business acumen on airline operations while retaining focus on cutting-edge technology driven solutions.
- Avail a full range of benefits that support you and your family: Insurance, Commute, Meals, and Special Travel opportunities
