Lead Data Product Engineer - Foundations & Governance

Delta Air Lines

Atlanta (GA)

On-site

USD 140,000 - 190,000

Full time

14 days+

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Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary

Profit sharing program

Paid time off including vacation and H

Comprehensive health benefits

Flight privileges for employees

Job summary

Delta Air Lines in Atlanta seeks a data foundations leader to transform our data assets into trusted, reusable products that empower analytics, engineering and AI at scale. You will partner with IT, Operations, and Analytics to translate business priorities into concrete, delivery-ready requirements, while ensuring data quality, governance, and value realization.

This role also provides thought leadership across the Data Foundations team.

Qualifications

Privacy is a priority when handling personal data.
5+ years of experience in data management, product ownership, data engineering, data modeling, data governance, or related discipline.
Experience gathering business requirements and translating business needs into actionable product priorities and acceptance criteria.
Ability to influence, facilitate, and drive consensus across business, operational, analytical, and technology stakeholders.
Demonstrated experience leading cross‑functional initiatives with multiple stakeholder groups and competing priorities.
Strong understanding of data governance, data quality, metadata, lineage, master/reference data, and stewardship principles.
Strong analytical and interpersonal skills with the ability to develop effective relationships and influence without direct authority.
Superior written and verbal communication skills with executive presence.
Experience working in Agile delivery environments and partnering with technical teams on data product delivery.
Familiarity with modern enterprise data platforms, cloud data services, data catalogs, or analytics ecosystems.
Applied experience with SQL & Python.
Consistently prioritizes safety and security of self, others, and personal data.
Embraces diverse people, thinking, and styles.
Is at least 18 years of age and has authorization to work in the United States.

Responsibilities

Develop, document, and steward the operations semantic layer: business definitions, critical data elements, metadata, business rules & logic, ontology, lineage expectations, and data quality standards.
Facilitate functional specification, source-to-target mapping, and transformation logic reviews to confirm that business intent and data meaning are accurately represented before implementation.
Identify opportunities to consolidate redundant data assets and promote the adoption of common foundational data products across multiple business processes and functional domains.
Collaborate with engineering and architecture teams to design and evolve modern data platforms, developer workspaces, and data pipelines that support scalable and reliable data delivery.
Represent OP&P in enterprise data governance councils and working groups, and coach/mentor junior data stewards as the stewardship function scales.
Drive adoption of enterprise data governance standards, stewardship practices, metadata management, data quality processes, and documentation requirements across the Data Foundations domain.
Lead workshops to define business processes, collect operational context, and better understand upstream policy, process and technology workflows that contribute to how data flows.
Partner with Operations, Technology, IT, Analytics, and business stakeholders to identify data needs, define priorities, and translate business requirements into clear, delivery‑ready product roadmaps and requirements.
Serve as the product engineer and steward for foundational data assets & products; ensuring alignment on business meaning, data quality expectations, and consumption for OP&P.