Portfolio Architect

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!

• 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.
• Java Development:
  Lead the development of high-performance applications using Java, ensuring code quality and best practices, ensuring a high level of quality code for each assigned project.
• 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 exploitation.
• Advance knowledge of Python.
• Expertise in cloud resource optimization and Fin Ops.
• Experience in working in Generative AI projects and having knowledge on ML and deep learning is an added advantage.
• Experience in architecting at least one Enterprise Solution from concept to delivery is an added advantage.

• 7 or more years in a Software Architecture or senior Software Engineering capacity at enterprise scale, with a strong focus on AWS and Java.
• 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 Cloud Formation.
• Advanced knowledge of Java programming language and frameworks (Spring, Hibernate, etc.).
• Experience with microservices architecture and containerization (Docker, Kubernetes).
• Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines and Dev Ops practices.
• Highly proficient with leading Agile methodologies, Dev Ops 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.

• 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…