Portfolio Architect, Delta Connections

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.

• 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.

• 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 Cloud Formation.
• 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, Sage Maker, and Agent Core.
• 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 Dev Ops Engineer
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