How You'll 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 direction for their portfolio, driving the design of cloud-native solutions that incorporate AI/ML capabilities and modern engineering practices. Designs applications and platforms required to automate business processes and meet business needs as integrated solutions that may run on multiple platforms and be composed of multiple software packages and custom components. Assumes overall technical responsibility for the success of solution construction, implementation, and system integration.
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.
- Engineering Excellence: Lead and model high-quality software development practices, ensuring code quality and best practices across assigned projects.
- 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 adoption.
- AI Architecture: Define AI/ML architectural patterns and guardrails for the portfolio, including evaluation and selection of GenAI platforms, LLM integration approaches, and agentic frameworks.
- AI-Assisted Development: Drive adoption of AI-assisted development practices and tooling across engineering teams.
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.
- 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.
- Experience with microservices architecture and containerization (Docker, Kubernetes).
- Experience architecting solutions that incorporate AI/ML or GenAI capabilities, including LLM integration, agentic workflows, or AI-powered features.
- Familiarity with AWS AI/ML services at a design and evaluation level, including Bedrock, SageMaker, and AgentCore.
- 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.
- Advanced knowledge of Java or another enterprise programming language and frameworks.
- Experience working with agentic frameworks such as AWS Strands, Google ADK, LangChain, or LangGraph.
- Experience designing MCP-based integrations to connect AI agents with enterprise tools and data sources.
- Familiarity with prompt engineering principles, RAG architectures, or multi-agent orchestration patterns.
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)
- 10 paid holidays per calendar year
- In addition to vacation, new hires are eligible for up to 56 hours of paid personal time within a 12-month period
- Birthing parents are eligible for 12-weeks of paid maternity/parental leave Non-birthing parents are eligible for 2-weeks of paid parental leave
- Comprehensive health benefits including medical, dental, vision, short/long term disability and life insurance 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
