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.
WHAT WILL BE YOUR RESPONSIBILITIES IN THIS ROLE:
- Develop amazingly efficient and effective software using Java, NodeJS, Python, Spring Boot, Microservices, APIs.
- Enhance and maintain on prem and internal PAAS applications, and actively rework these to AWS along project timelines.
- Help to design and implement serverless patterns from containerized applications.
- Build industry standard APIs and help with establishing, consuming & routing calls, connectivity protocols and policy.
- Design, develop and implement architecture patterns that are optimized for SLAs, reliability, and cost.
- Look upstream and downstream to see around corners and anticipate future consequences for immediate technical choices.
- Help to establish and grow a culture of software craftsmanship best practices, including TDD/BDD and Test Automation (both Unit and Integration), Continuous Integration, and Continuous Deployment.
- Drive performance improvements including monitoring, detailed metrics, problems, trends, and costs, to determine solutions, required process changes, etc. that will make the function more efficient.
- Ensure adherence to security standards and compliance with privacy rules and regulations early in the development.
- Be aggressive to resolve and prevent technical debt.
- Actively engage in Agile software development activities, including sprint planning, daily standups, and retrospectives, with an aim to continuously improve.
- Collaborate frequently to share ideas and gain perspective. Communicate critical information in a clear and timely manner, listen to others, and seek clarification to confirm shared understanding.
- Initiate and lead code reviews and continuous improvement efforts.
- Create usable documentation / playbook(s)
- Effectively analyze tradeoffs between usability and performance needs – communicate these across the team.
- Optimize pace and meet deadlines.
- Administer product upgrades and patches.
- Provide assistance and support other team members where required, including troubleshooting and maintenance of production systems / programs / applications.
- 24/7 On-call support rotation function is a component of this role.
YOUR QUALIFICATIONS REQUIRED FOR THIS ROLE:
- Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, with 6+ years of relevant technical experience or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems with 2+ years of technical experience.
- 3-6 years’ experience in Java, J2EE, Node JS, Python(nice to have) development experience is required.
- Proven experience as a Full Stack Developer, with a strong focus on Java Spring and related technologies.
- Hands-on experience with JPA and Hibernate for database integration.-nice to have
- Proficiency in OpenShift PaaS deployments.
- Strong knowledge of AWS server technologies, including S3, Lambda, VPC, Route53, MSK, Kinesis, Aurora, RDS, and DynamoDB.
- Must have familiarity and hands-on working experience with containerization and orchestration tools (e.g., Docker, Kubernetes).
- Experience with front-end technologies such as HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript, and modern JavaScript frameworks (e.g., React, Angular, Vue.js).
- Knowledge of CI/CD pipelines and DevOps practices.
- Excellent problem-solving skills and the ability to work in a collaborative team environment.
- Strong communication skills, both written and verbal.
- Ability to work effectively in a fast-paced and dynamic environment.
- Experience working with GitHub and / or GitLab, SonarQube, JUnit, Spring Boot (either)
- Skilled in writing, designing unit test cases using TDD and BDD methodologies.-nice to have
- Hands on experience of virtualizing services for test automation using tools such as Wire Mock, Mockito, Axios etc.
- Hands on experience of working with continuous integration tools such Jenkins and Gitlab CI.
- Experience using relational and object databases and web service development standards and practices, including RESTful APIs, micro-services, and services.
- Experience working in an agile development environment using workload management tools like VersionOne / Agility
- Expert troubleshooting and deployment experience with strong understanding of transforming business and functional requirements into efficient technical solutions
- Experience with system integrations, optimizing performance and data integrity
- Strong technical and non-technical communication skills. Assures smooth flowing, timely transmission of critical information.
- Excellent judgment and problem-solving skills; individual should be able to resolve urgent problems in a calm and quick manner and display a high degree of initiative and drive.
- Ability to be effective in a high stress environment
- Be flexible and embrace challenges that are outside of your comfort zone
- Hands on experience of creating test reports from automation test run using tools such as cucumber report, Extent report etc.
- Experience with OpenShift
- Working knowledge of MQ
- AWS Certification is a plus
- DevOps and / or automation experience in code testing, building, and deployment a plus
- Experience building computer software within the airline industry is a plus
- Knowledge Linux operating systems a plus
PREFERRED QUALIFICATION:
- Airline industry experience is good to have.
- AWS / OpenShift and / or Java Distributed Technology certifications is a plus.