Lead Data Engineer

Delta Technology Hub; Bengaluru; On-site; INR 700,000 - 900,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical Insurance

Transportation to and from the DTH_off

Complementary Cafeteria Meals

Special Travel opportunities and Privs

Car Lease Program

Paid time off

Parental Benefits

National Pension Scheme

Job summary

Delta Technology Hub in Bengaluru seeks a Lead Data Engineer to build and enhance data pipelines powering Flight Safety analytics. You will own the implementation across multiple data products, ensuring scalable and reliable data assets for operational decision-support.

The role requires expert SQL, strong Python, and hands-on experience with AWS ETL/ELT pipelines and data warehousing concepts. You will collaborate with analysts, stakeholders, and engineers to foster reliable data delivery.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, engineering, data science, or related field.
• 7–12 years of experience in data engineering or analytics engineering.
• Expert-level SQL and strong Python-based data processing.
• Proven experience building and owning ETL/ELT pipelines in AWS (S3, Athena, Redshift/Teradata).
• Strong understanding of data warehousing concepts and analytics-focused data design.

Responsibilities

• Build, maintain, and enhance data pipelines for safety analytics needs.
• Support multiple data products, workflows, and operational processes.
• Translate business, analytical, and operational needs into scalable data solutions.
• Monitor data quality and improve reliability and usability of data assets.
• Contribute to standards, documentation, and repeatable data ingestion/transformation practices.
• Support integration of new data sources and taxonomy updates across products.
• Bring structure to shifting priorities across multiple workstreams.
• Collaborate with stakeholders to ensure maintainable, useful solutions.

Skills

SQL

Python

ETL/ELT pipelines

AWS

Data warehousing

Dimensional modeling

Education

Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Engineering, Data Science, or a related field

Tools

Amazon S3

Athena

Redshift

Teradata

Job description

How You'll Help Us Keep Climbing (Overview & Key Responsibilities)

We are seeking a Lead Data Engineer to support a growing portfolio of Flight Safety data, analytics, and operational decision-support needs. The role operates across multiple products and workflows and focuses on building, maintaining, and improving high-quality, reliable data assets.

Responsible (R) for execution and technical implementation. Contributes to solution design decisions; does not own prioritization decisions.

Key Responsibilities

• Build, maintain, and enhance data pipelines that support recurring and ad hoc safety analytics needs
• Support multiple data products, workflows, and operational processes across a shared Flight Safety portfolio
• Translate evolving business, analytical, and operational needs into scalable and practical data solutions
• Monitor data quality, troubleshoot issues, and improve the reliability, consistency, and usability of data assets
• Contribute to standards, documentation, and repeatable practices for data ingestion, transformation, validation, and delivery
• Support integration of new data sources, taxonomy updates, and process improvements across safety-related products and workflows
• Bring structure to loosely defined requests and shifting priorities across several workstreams
• Partner with internal stakeholders, analysts, and technical collaborators to ensure solutions are maintainable, useful, and aligned to business needs
• Support a culture of continuous improvement through disciplined engineering practices, transparency, and follow-through

What You Need To Succeed (Minimum Qualifications)

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Engineering, Data Science, or a related field.
• 7 to 12 years of experience in data engineering, analytics engineering, or closely related roles.
• Expert-level SQL skills and strong experience with Python-based data processing.
• Proven experience building and owning ETL/ELT pipelines in AWS environment Amazon S3, Athena, Redshift/Teradata
• Strong understanding of data warehousing concepts, dimensional modeling, and analytics-focused data design.

Behavioral Competencies

• Lead initiatives with high accountability, create a collaborative environment with a solution-based approach.
• Serve as a trusted advisor and mentor for the team offering technical advice.
• Ability to communicate with precision, engaging team and stakeholders to build trust and reliable working relationships across cross-functional teams and geographies enabling organizational alignment.
• Ability to set priorities with the team by understanding interdependence, inspiring team members with consistent focus, quality output, and timelines.
• Constantly keep oneself updated on current technology & trends to drive innovative decisions through piloting forward-thinking approaches to complex problems in one’s own area of work.
• Inquisitive to understand customer priorities and business challenges while creating value for technical solutions.

What Will Give You a Competitive Edge (Preferred Qualifications)

• Pipeline uptime and reliability (%)
• Time to detect and resolve data quality issues
• Data quality defect rate (downstream vs upstream detection)
• Time-to-delivery for new datasets or enhancements
• Rework rate due to unclear requirements or data defects
• Stakeholder adoption and repeat usage of delivered data assets

About The Company

What started as a humble, little aerial crop-dustingoperation called Huff DalandDusters in 1924 has now grown into the U.S. global airline leader in safety, innovation, reliability, and customer experience. Headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia, Delta Air Lines is known for its operational excellence and award-winning customer service.

Powered by our employees worldwide, Delta has led the airline industry in operational excellence for a decade 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 2026, Delta Air Lines continued to earn global recognition for its performance, culture and operational excellence. Delta was named to Glassdoor’s 2026 Top 100 Best Places to Work list for the ninth time, standing as the only airline recognized. Delta also secured the 11th spot on Fortune’s World’s Most Admired Companies list, marking its 13th consecutive year earning this distinction. Delta was also recognized by Cirium as the top on-time airline in North America for the fifth consecutive year, underscoring its unwavering commitment to reliability and customer experience.

About The Delta Technology Hub (DTH), Bangalore

The DTH is one of Delta Air Lines' investments in world-class business capabilities and technology aimed at transforming how Delta Air Lines operates and provides world-class travel experiences to its customers through innovation and cutting-edge methodologies. By continuously reimagining processes and driving technology-led transformation, the Delta Technology Hub plays a pivotal role in Scripting The Future Of Aviation. The organization is certified by the Great Place to Work Institute (India). The Delta Technology Hub was a finalist for the iVolunteer Awards 2024/2025 in the "Leader in Employee Volunteering" category. This nomination highlights our remarkable volunteering initiatives and the outstanding practices we implement to encourage and support our employee volunteering program.

For more information, please visit www.deltatechhub.com

Why join?

• Technology is a key enabler of the differentiated services that Delta provides. At the DTH, you get the opportunity to work on projects with a significant impact on business outcomes and customer experience.
• Deepen your knowledge by taking part in multifaceted learning and development programs -exposure to extensive internal and partner repositories, institutional affiliations, and industry SIG (Special Interest Groups) partnerships.
• Immerse yourself in an employee-centric culture.
• Develop deep and broad business acumen on airline operations while retaining focus on cutting-edge technology driven solutions.
• Avail a full range of benefits that support you and your family: Medical Insurance, Transportation to and from the DTH office, Complementary Cafeteria Meals, Special Travel opportunities and Travel Privileges, Car Lease Program, Paid time off, Parental Benefits and National Pension Scheme.