Engineering Leader

Delta Air Lines

Bangalore, Karnataka
Permanent
Full-time

1 month ago
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About Delta Air LinesAbout the CompanyDelta 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 2023, Delta was named the World’s Most Admired Airline by , with the company ranking No. 1 across the board in the industry for values including innovation and people management. Delta also rated higher than any other airline on the overall list of Most Admired Companies, climbing to No. 12 this year.Job DescriptionResponsibilities include, but are not limited to:

Lead teams working on Onboard Services domain by helping them identify solutions to business needs.
Mentor and build the team while delivering innovative and efficient solutions for about 40K crew members, caterers, and our customers.
Negotiate between multiple projects, business leaders, and technical teams in order to deliver market leading solutions.
Determine feasibility and ROI of adopting newer market trends and technologies in the development space, interacting with business and product owners in order to define technical solutions for a better crew member, caterer and customer experience and communicating solutions to varied technical and non-technical audiences.
Production issue triage and prevention as needed, release management support from a planning and communication standpoint, and overall backlog maintenance.
Recruiting, hiring, and retaining the industry best talent for the team.
Build a roadmap and set a team vision in alignment with organizational goals and driving these to successful outcomes.
Research and Development of POCs, innovative new ideas for the best crew member experience.
Collaborate with the portfolio Directors, General Managers, Managers, Dev teams, Architects & other stakeholders on deliverables for the Crew applications.
Drive work using industry leading agile practices.

What you need to succeed (minimum qualifications):

BS / MS, preferably in a technical or scientific field, with 12 or more years of experience in an Agile environment, or any equivalent combination of experience, education, and/or training.
Strong leadership ability with a track record of developing people and achieving challenging objectives.
Experience engineering software within an Amazon Web Services (AWS) and RedHat OpenShift cloud infrastructure or other prominent enterprise container orchestration and management platforms like(Kubernetesor EKS (Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service) or GKE (Google Kubernetes Engine) or AKS (Azure Kubernetes Service) or VMWare Tanzu)is required.
Experience developing software using Java, SpringBoot, Angular, JavaScript, jQuery, SQL, SpringBatch.
Experience developing and deploying RESTful microservices and using Swagger, JSON, Postman
Test Driven Development working knowledge (SRE Quality engineering)
Airline industry knowledge is a plus.
Embraces a diverse set of people, thinking and styles.

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

Communication Skills - The ability to communicate verbally and in writing with all levels of employees and management, capable of successful formal and informal communication, speaks and writes clearly and understandably for the audience.
Integrity and Trust - Involves being widely trusted, being seen as a direct, truthful individual, can present the unvarnished truth in an appropriate and helpful manner, keeps confidences, admits mistakes, and doesn't misrepresent him/herself for personal gain.
Teamwork - Involves working well in a collaborative setting, supporting work team by volunteering for and completing assignments, acting as a positive team member by contributing to discussions, developing and maintaining both formal and informal relationships enterprise-wide, defines success in terms of the entire team through mentoring and knowledge transfer.
Technical Expertise - Involves demonstrating a commitment to increasing knowledge and skills in current technical/functional area, keeping up to date on technical developments, staying informed as to industry practices, knowing how to apply relevant technical processes to appropriate business needs.
Solution Oriented - Maintains a positive attitude towards coming up with solutions and developing new approaches, doesn't let distractions get in the way, isn't overwhelmed with problems / issues.

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