How You'll Help Us Keep Climbing (Overview & Key Responsibilities)
The Digital Catering and In-Flight Solutions (DCIS) team is seeking a Manager, Data Engineering with strong analytics engineering capabilities to own and evolve critical data pipelines and analytical data products that power operational, commercial, and customer-facing insights. This role blends hands-on engineering with technical leadership, partnering closely with analysts, business stakeholders, and platform teams to ensure trusted, scalable, and analytics-ready data across the DCIS domain.
This role is ideal for a senior individual contributor who enjoys setting technical direction, driving standards, and translating business problems into durable data solutions.
Key Responsibilities
Data Engineering & Architecture (Primary)
- Lead the design, development, and operation of scalable data pipelines and curated data layers across DCIS data domains.
- Own ingestion, transformation, and modeling of structured and semi-structured data from enterprise systems, including Salesforce and related platforms.
- Design analytics-ready data models that support reporting, dashboards, and advanced analytics use cases.
- Ensure data reliability through proactive data quality checks, monitoring, and validation at critical control points.
- Optimize SQL and transformation logic for performance, cost efficiency, and long-term maintainability.
Analytics Enablement & Data Products
- Partner closely with DCIS analysts and business teams to translate reporting and insight needs into well-structured data assets.
- Serve as a technical point of contact for downstream analytics consumers (BI, reporting, ad‑hoc analysis).
- Enable self-service analytics by improving data accessibility, documentation, and semantic consistency.
- Support BI tools such as Tableau or Power BI by delivering clean, performant, and well-documented datasets.
Technical Leadership & Ways of Working
- Set and reinforce best practices for data modeling, pipeline design, testing, version control, and documentation.
- Provide technical guidance and reviews for other engineers and analysts contributing to shared data assets.
- Partner with platform, architecture, and security teams to align solutions with enterprise standards.
- Contribute to roadmap planning, prioritization, and Agile delivery practices within DCIS.
- Identify opportunities to modernize legacy workflows, reduce manual effort, and improve scalability.
What You Need To Succeed (Minimum Qualifications)
- Bachelor's degree in computer science, Engineering, Data Science, or a related field.
- 14+ years of experience in data engineering, analytics engineering, or closely related roles, 3 years of people leadership
- Expert-level SQL skills and strong experience with Python-based data processing.
- Proven experience building and owning ETL/ELT pipelines in AWS environment
- AWS Glue, Lambda, MWAA (Managed Workflows for Apache Airflow)
- AWS monitoring and security
- Amazon S3, Athena, Redshift/Teradata
- Strong understanding of data warehousing concepts, dimensional modeling, and analytics-focused data design.
- Demonstrated ability to partner with analytics and business teams to deliver data products that drive decisions.
- Experience in Team Leadership: Managed, mentored, coached and developed teams, fostering a collaborative and creative work environment
- Experience in Resource Allocation, Capacity Planning & Resource utilization
- Experience in Performance Management by providing regular performance feedback, recognizing achievements and addressing areas for improvement.
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)
- Experience working with Salesforce data (e.g., Sales Cloud, Marketing Cloud, CRM Analytics) and related integrations.
- Experience supporting operational data domains.
- Strong communication skills with the ability to influence technical direction without formal authority.
About The Company
What started as a humble, little aerial crop-dusting operation called Huff Daland Dusters 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.
