Architect [T500-19091]

About Delta Tech Hub:

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. Delta has fast emerged as a customer-oriented, innovation-led, technology-driven 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 global team to create memorable experiences for customers.

Responsibilities include, but are not limited to

• Owns technical decisions and direction of the Digital Mobile AWS cloud strategy for employee-facing applications.
• Plays an active role in the overall technical architecture and owns the technical responsibility of the success of cloud/non-cloud solutions.
• Overseeing each phase of software application development lifecycle to ensure a high level of quality for each assigned project.
• Developing and defining business and technical operating procedures and standards.
• Developing architectural diagrams and related documentation.
• Identifying application and business requirements by communicating with technical teams and clients.
• Keeping abreast of, recommending, and driving new technologies towards implementation and exploitation.
• Architect specializations will include App / Integration, AWS, DevSecOps, Site Reliability, Platform, Security.

What you need to succeed (minimum qualifications):

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Information Systems or related technical field is required
• 10+ years in a Mobile Architecture or Lead Software Engineering capacity at enterprise scale.
• Experience with the architecture and design of enterprise software solutions, applications, integrations, security, and platform engineering for mobile and web consumers is required.
• Demonstrated ability to mentor and develop staff Mobile Software Development Engineers with best practices and leadership.
• Experience defining and maintaining accountability of architectural design patterns and serving as a technology domain’s escalation point.
• Proficiency designing architecture for shared codebases across iOS, Android, and cross-platform frameworks (e.g., .NET MAUI).
• Design and implement orchestration workflows using AWS Step Functions, Lambda, EventBridge, and other native services.
• Architect event-driven systems that integrate services like S3, DynamoDB, SNS / SQS, and ECS.
• Highly proficient with agile methodologies, DevOps principles, object-oriented design patterns, modern tooling, & monitoring / reliability best practices in an enterprise technology environment is required.
• Expertise in Application Security principles and 12-factor application development principles is required.
• Expert level proficiency in the following technologies, principles and programming languages include cloud-native development in Javascript / Typescript, Java, Swift, node.js, AWS Serverless Architecture, AWS CDK, S3, Route53, Lambda, KMS, EC2, IAM, ELB, Gitlab, REST APIs, GraphQL.
• Ability to design and implement highly performant networking systems in on-prem and cloud networking environments using techniques such as load balancing, reverse-proxying, and gateway auto-scaling.
• Embraces diverse people, thinking and styles.
• Consistently makes safety and security, of self and others, the priority.
• Strong Communication and Collaboration skills is a must to have.

What will give you a competitive edge (preferred qualifications):

• Experience working in an airline technology environment is preferred.
• Microservice development on a cloud platform using 12-factor architectural patterns.
• Experience across all phases of the software development lifecycle including planning, design, implementation, testing, deployment, monitoring, and maintenance.
• Ability to manage, estimate, and provide insight into financial implications of architectural decisions.
• Experience building flexible APIs and microservice solutions for mobile application consumers.