Lead SDE [T500-21649]

About Delta Tech Hub:

Delta Air Lines (NYSE: DAL) is the U.S. global airline leader in safety, innovation, reliability and customer experience. Powered by our employees around the world, Delta has for a decade led the airline industry in operational excellence 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. Delta has fast emerged as a customer-oriented, innovation-led, technology-driven business. The Delta Technology Hub will contribute directly to these objectives. It will sustain our long-term aspirations of delivering niche, IP-intensive, high-value, and innovative solutions. It supports various teams and functions across Delta and is an integral part of our transformation agenda, working seamlessly with a global team to create memorable experiences for customers.

PRIMARY FUNCTIONS (RESPONSIBILITIES):

• Responsible for enabling Delta API strategy in the Digital Channels space.
• Responsible for developing scalable payment api/gateway infrastructure
• Support build out of robust backend systems supporting n-tier integrations
• Develop amazingly efficient and effective software using Java, Spring Boot, Microservices, RESTFul APIs, Apigee, JBOSS, Oracle for Amazon Cloud/OpenShift platform
• Ensure adherence to and compliance with PCI rules and regulations
• Developer will also be responsible for leading developers and mentoring Junior Developers on the team.
• Should support deployments
• Ensure that the Delta methodology, standards and procedures with strong CICD footprint are adopted and implemented.
• Ensure that the technical solutions meet the customers' business goals and that customer satisfaction with the project and conclusion is high.
• Consult and collaborate within project team and other Delta teams, to ensure project or product integrity

WHAT YOU NEED TO SUCCEED (MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS):

Technical Competencies:

• Bachelors degree in information systems, Computer Science or related field
• 7+ years of software and development experience with a minimum and 7+ years of hands-on experience working with Services and Integration Technologies supporting payments platforms.
• Hands on experience in Java development in a high-volume transactional environment.
• Experience in Continuous Integration, TDD.
• Knowledgeable in Java internals, JVM tuning and troubleshooting.
• Experience working on Spring Boot Framework, Microservices, RESTful APIs, Apigee, JBOSS or other containers, Oracle/SQL.
• Understanding of Object modeling and deciphering custom and vendor supplied schemas.
• Experience with large scale load balanced physical architectures to support consumer facing websites.
• Knowledge of secure coding and PCI standards.
• Experience with source control, build tools.
• Experience with JIRA, Confluence, GIT (GitHub, Bitbucket or other.),
• Experience with both Agile and Waterfall methodologies.
• Candidate must be solutions oriented using rigorous logic and methods to solve difficult problems with effective solutions, probing all sources for answers.
• Candidate must also have excellent written and verbal skills with the ability to communicate effectively with all levels of employees and management.
• Additionally, candidate must be a self-learner with the ability to pick up new technologies and provide tangible results.
• Finally, Candidate has to be Reliable, produce quality work, take pride and ownership in their work with high level of professionalism, passion and a sense of urgency to make things happen

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 ones 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):

• DevOps experience/knowledge
• payments and api development
• Functional knowledge of the payment gateway IT processes
• AWS is a big plus
• An eye for detail