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Engineering Leader (Java and AWS)

Full time at Delta Air Lines in India
Posted on March 28, 2024

Job details

Responsibilities include, but are not limited to:

  • The role is required to build industry standard applications and APIs, Integration Design Patterns and provide insight into establishing, consuming & routing messages, connectivity protocols and policy.
  • Provide technical leadership and develop a team of highly skilled and motivated individuals.
  • Lead the team to adopt technologies that enable developer productivity, speed to market, reduce code deployment lead times, reduce cost with a clear focus on reliability, application stability and performance.
  • Evangelize Deltas Cloud journey and support team experimentation and innovation to create and implement better products faster.
  • Act as a change agent, adopting Deltas enterprise agility strategy and lean principles to support business growth, reduce operational costs, and/or improve service levels.
  • Engage in Agile software development activities, including sprint planning, daily standups, retrospectives, and hackathons.
  • Lead by example and create a high-trust culture .
  • Drive, influence, and support API quality standards
  • Provide technical leadership and coaching to junior team members.
  • Establish a culture of software craftsmanship best practices, including Test Driving and Automation, Continuous Integration, and Continuous Deployment
  • Engage in Agile software development activities, including sprint planning, daily standups, retrospectives, and hackathons.
  • Very well versed with software architectural patterns.
  • Develop amazingly efficient and effective software using Java, Spring Boot, 12-factor compliant Microservices, RESTFul APIs, Graph QL for Cloud/OpenShift platform.
  • Experienced in testing frameworks like BDD, TDD, Automation.
  • Ensure that the technical solutions meet the customers' business goals and that customer satisfaction with the project and conclusion is high.
  • Coordinate activities with internal/external technology owners/service providers.
  • Consult within project team and other Delta teams, with outside vendors or consultants to ensure project or product integrity.
  • Self-learner with the ability to pick up new technologies and provide tangible results.
  • Embraces diverse people, thinking and styles.
What you need to succeed (minimum qualifications):
  • The Engineering Leader position requires a BS/MS degree in a technical or scientific field.
  • 10 or more years of experience in Java application development.
  • 5 or more years of very strong experience working with AWS (EC2, Lambda, API Gateway, Postgres, Dynamo DB, Networking, VPC) and/or Redhat Openshift
  • 5 or more years Expertise in DevOps using tools like GitLab CI, GitLab, Nexus etc.
  • 3 or more years of experience developing with RESTful web services.
  • 3 or more years of experience with SQL or NoSQL DBMSs (Cassandra, Mongodb)
  • 5 or more years of experience in roles that required strong interpersonal communication and collaboration skills.
  • 5 or more years of experience in roles that required strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
  • 3 or more years of demonstrated technical leadership skills.
  • Extensive knowledge of Java internals, JVM tuning, and troubleshooting.
  • Experience working on Quarkus, Spring Boot Framework, Microservices, RESTful APIs.
  • Understanding of Object modelling and deciphering custom and vendor supplied schemas.
  • Experience with large scale load balanced physical architectures to support consumer facing websites.
  • Candidate must be solutions oriented using rigorous logic and methods to solve difficult problems with effective solutions, probing all sources for answers.
  • Candidate must also have excellent written and verbal skills with the ability to communicate effectively with all levels of employees and management.
  • Additionally, candidate must be a self-learner with the ability to pick up new technologies and provide tangible results.
  • Cultivates a customer obsessed, positive, outcome-oriented culture of accountability and partnership.
  • Strong experience with agile engineering practices and lean management principles like Test Automation, Test-Driven Development (TDD), Continuous Integration (CI), Continuous Delivery (CD), and DevOps.
  • Strong thought leadership and strategic thinking skills, with a demonstrated ability to identify business issues/opportunities and to frame sustainable solutions.
  • Excellent written and verbal skills with the ability to communicate effectively with all levels of employees and management.
  • Excellent collaboration and cross organization team building skills to drive results in a high matrix organizational model.
  • Experience managing and executing multiple priorities in a timely manner.
  • Ability to be effective in a rapidly changing complex technical environment.
  • Finally, candidate must be reliable, produce quality work, take pride and ownership in their work with high level of professionalism, passion, and a sense of urgency to make things happen.
What will give you a competitive edge (preferred qualifications):
  • Experience in the Airline domain
  • Experience building flexible and robust APIs used in business-critical applications.
  • Experience mentoring associate software developers.
  • Microservice development, on a cloud platform, using 12-factor architectural patterns.
  • Experience in NoSQL databases.

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