Lead Software Development Engineer [T500-20477]

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.KEY RESPONSIBILITIES : Designing, prototyping and demonstrating new features and components of front-end and back-end to users to ensure compliance with requirementsAssisting in the design, implementation and optimization of related approaches, tools and workflows.Collaborate with the technical teams, business teams, QA and product team to deliver high-quality solutions.Design the solutions to meet functional and technical requirements.Ensure adherence to security standards and compliance with privacy rules and regulations early in the development. Be proactive to resolve and prevent technical debt.Write clean, maintainable, and testable code following best practices.Build and deploy microservices on AWS using services like Lambda, ECS, S3, DynamoDB,MongoDB, RDS, API Gateway, etc.Develop delivery pipelines and automated deployment scripts.Configure services, such as databases and monitoring.Implement Service Reliability Engineering.Fix problems from the development phase through the production phase, which requires being on call for production support.MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS : 3-6 years of hands-on experience as a Software Engineer or related technical engineering capacity. Relevant technologies and programming languages include Java 11 / 17 / 21 J2EE and the Backend SpringBoot RestAPI development.Skilled in Java 8 and 11 features such as Lambda Expressions, Streams, Functional Interfaces, Stream API.Experience of working in distributed agile teams using agile frameworks such as SCRUM, SAFe, XP etc.Experience in AWS, Backend Spring Boot Rest API development is required.Experience in designing, developing and deploying RESTful microservices.Strong problem-solving skills and ability to work in a fast-paced environment.Experience working with containers, and managed container orchestrators (Kubernetes / OpenShift) in the cloud (For example Red Hat OpenShift (RedHat OpenShift on AWS), ROSA AWS Elastic Kubernetes Service, AWS Kubernetes Service, Red Hat OpenShift).Experience working with DevOps principles, practices and tools in an enterprise technology environment is required.Knowledge of concepts, values, tools applied in building Continuous Integration (CI), Continuous Delivery and Continuous Deployment (CD) pipeline, Build, Implement and Maintain CI / CDPipelines to achieve the automation of Software delivery process. Preferred Gitlab CI, Tekton pipeline and tools like ArgoCD.Working Knowledge of AWS CDK (typescript is preferred), CloudFormation Templates (CFT), IaC (Infrastructure as code) Debugging Infrastructure issues in CDK and CFT, yaml, AnsibleShell Scripting knowledge in Linux, PythonExperience engineering software within an Amazon Web Services (AWS) / GCP / Azure-GTH cloud infrastructure or other prominent enterprise cloud provider is required.Working knowledge of the full Software Development Lifecycle, building CI / CD pipelines and practicing Test Driven Development is a requirement.Fundamental Awareness of Application Security principles and 12-factor application development principles is required. Adhering to secure coding practice is required.Experience with source control, build tools and GIT (GitHub , Gitlab ,Bitbucket or other) is required.Working knowledge of SonarQube, Veracode or BlackDuck scan is required.Proficient in working with SQL and NoSQL databases.Experience with Kafka, Redis, or other streaming technologies.Embraces diverse people, thinking and styles.Consistently makes safety and security, of self and others, the priority.Knowledge of CI / CD and DevOps practices; with tools such as Git CI, Workflows, Jira / VersionOne / Agility, Tekton, Argo CD ,Helm, Gradle, AnsiblePREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS : Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Information Systems or related technical field is preferred.Experience working in an airline technology environment is preferred.Exposure to AI / ML workflows, such as model deployment, data preprocessing, or inference pipelines.Adapt to and incorporate new and emerging technologiesWork under minimal supervision exhibiting strong analytical, problem solving and strong and succinct co