Job Description

Summary of Responsibilities

Design and develop business, application, data, and infrastructure solutions, seek opportunities to optimize performance, maintain and troubleshoot application components as required in the cloud.
Play an active role in the architecture and be a key voice in technical initiatives and projects requiring integration of cross-functional systems.
Design and develop with consideration for Non-Functional Requirements (Scalability, Reliability, Availability, Observability, Fault Tolerance, Security, and Maintainability). 
Assist and advise project teams on project design options.
Develop and support high-quality API/ microservices centric software solutions that would be deployed in cloud.
Support API quality standards.
Establish a culture of software craftsmanship best practices, including Test Driving/Automation, Continuous Integration, and Continuous Deployment.
Engage in Agile software development activities, including sprint planning, daily standups, retrospectives, and hackathons.
Interface regularly with customers to ensure technical solutions are meeting needs.
Collaborate with other teams to drive alignment on product requirements and resulting development execution plans.
Create system documentation/playbook(s) and serve as technical reviewer and contributor in requirements, design, and code review.
Develop test case design, perform test case execution, and work with product teams to resolve identified issues.
Have the continuous improvement mindset on all areas of development and deployment.
Use and contribute to the Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery process
Write well designed, non-complex, testable, efficient code.
Collaborate with developers across multiple products to build consensus on creation of reusable application components.
Aid and cover for other team members where required, including troubleshooting and maintenance of production systems/programs/applications.

WHAT YOU NEED TO SUCCEED (MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS)

Minimum 7 to 10 years of Software Development experience in Java.
Knowledge of relational and NoSQL databases and web service development standards and practices, including RESTful APIs, microservices, and SOA services.
Expert in Functional Programming approaches, preferably in Java
Experience working with containers, and managed container orchestrators (Kubernetes/OpenShift) in the cloud (For example AWS Elastic Kubernetes Service, Azure Kubernetes Service, Red Hat OpenShift)
Experience with microservices management like istio
Knowledge of Authentication and Authorization protocols like oAuth2.0 and openID Connect etc.
Cloud-native development in the Spring/Spring Boot ecosystem and strong working knowledge of developing and deploying applications in major cloud providers (AWS or Azure)
Experience in cloud managed services and DB (RDS, NoSQL/DynamoDB, serverless, etc.)
DevSecOps and/or automation experience in code testing, building, and deployment using tools like VeraCode, SonarQube, Tekton (preferred) or Jenkins, GitHub and/or GitLab.
Have implemented code coverage, code complexity, code quality.
Considering Observability, Monitoring, Logging, and Tracing as part of development leveraging managed services like AWS cloud watch, jaegar, kiali and Dynatrace etc.
Experience with Test Driven Development, exposure to Behavior Driven Development
Knowledge of Agile methodologies and experience working in an agile development environment using workload management tools like VersionOne.
Experience with system integrations, optimizing performance and data integrity.
Passion for driving continuous improvement.
Proactive and able to quickly pick up new technologies.
Strong technical and non-technical communication skills. Assures smooth flowing, timely transmission of critical information.
Large project experience with high transaction volumes is required.
Experience in VersionOne, GIT and DevOps is required.
Self-motivated individual with strong verbal and written communication skills, ability to work independently and in a collaborative setting.
Previous experience in supporting large applications in production environment with strong debugging skills required.
Embraces diverse people, thinking and styles.
Consistently makes safety and security, of self and others, the priority.
Where permitted by applicable law, must have received or be willing to receive the COVID-19 vaccine by date of hire to be considered for U.S.-based job, if not currently employed by Delta Air Lines, Inc.

WHAT WILL GIVE YOU A COMPETITIVE EDGE (PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS)

Experience working with business rules engines/business process management systems such as RedHat Decision Manager is a plus.
Experience with agile development with frequent releases is a plus.
Airline industry knowledge is a plus.