Senior Data Engineer: AI‑Ready Data Platform Lead

Delta Air Lines, Inc.; Atlanta (GA); On-site; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary

Profit sharing

401(k) with generous company contrib.

Paid time off

Flight privileges

Career development

Job summary

Delta Air Lines, Inc. invites applications for a Senior Data Engineer to advance the data foundation powering IT service assurance and operational intelligence.

You will lead design and delivery of secure, scalable data solutions across ITSM, CMDB, observability, applications, and infrastructure. In this role, you will build reusable data products, drive automation, and guide modernization efforts while collaborating with technology, operations, analytics, security, and architecture teams to

Qualifications

• 7+ years of IT experience, including 4+ years designing, developing, and supporting enterprise data pipelines and data platforms.

Responsibilities

• Lead complex data initiatives from concept to production.
• Design secure, scalable AWS data platforms and lakehouse patterns.
• Provide senior technical leadership for ingestion, transformation, modeling, metadata, quality, lineage, and performance.
• Build and optimize batch, streaming, and near-real-time data integrations across diverse sources.
• Develop Python and SQL pipelines for data orchestration, analytics, and APIs.
• Establish automated data quality controls and monitoring across the data lifecycle.
• Advance AI-ready architectures for SageMaker, Bedrock, LLMs, and vector databases.
• Drive CI/CD, IaC, automated testing, and resilient deployment practices.

Skills

Python

SQL

AWS

ETL/ELT

Data lakehouse

CI/CD

Data modeling

Data governance

Python orchestration

Communication

Tools

Amazon S3

AWS Glue

Amazon Athena

Amazon Redshift

AWS Lambda

Amazon EventBridge

Lake Formation

IAM

SageMaker

Bedrock

Job description

Delta Air Lines, Inc. invites applications for a Senior Data Engineer to advance the data foundation powering IT service assurance and operational intelligence.

You will lead design and delivery of secure, scalable data solutions across ITSM, CMDB, observability, applications, and infrastructure. In this role, you will build reusable data products, drive automation, and guide modernization efforts while collaborating with technology, operations, analytics, security, and architecture teams to