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

Role Summary The Architect will play a pivotal role in driving our cloud, infrastructure, security, and product platform modernization efforts. This role blends deep technical architecture with strategic product partnerships, shaping scalable systems and influencing the roadmap that powers our future. The Architect must be self-motivated, responsive, and detail oriented with excellent organizational, interpersonal and communication skills.

Role Responsibilities

- Architectural Design: Develop and maintain architectural blueprints for software solutions, ensuring alignment with business goals and technical standards.
- Cloud Integration: Leverage AWS services to design and implement cloud-based solutions, including EC2, S3, Lambda, RDS, ROSA and more.
- Engineering Excellence: Lead and model high-quality software development practices, ensuring code quality and best practices across assigned projects.
- Technical Leadership: Provide guidance and mentorship to development teams, fostering a culture of innovation and excellence.
- Collaboration: Work closely with cross-functional teams, including product managers, developers, and operations, to define business needs and ensure seamless integration and delivery of software solutions.
- Performance Optimization: Identify and address performance bottlenecks, ensuring applications run efficiently at scale.
- Security: Implement security best practices to protect data and applications, including encryption, access controls, and compliance with industry standards.
- Documentation: Create comprehensive documentation for architectural designs, development processes, and operational procedures.
- Keeping abreast of, recommending and driving new technologies towards implementation and adoption.
- AI Architecture: Define AI/ML architectural patterns and guardrails for the portfolio, including evaluation and selection of GenAI platforms, LLM integration approaches, and agentic frameworks.
- AI-Assisted Development: Drive adoption of AI-assisted development practices and tooling across engineering teams.

What You Need To Succeed (Minimum Qualifications)

- 14+ years of experience in infrastructure architecture and cloud‑native systems.
- Experience in the architecture and design of enterprise software solutions, applications, integrations, security and platform engineering is required.
- Demonstrated ability to mentor and develop staff Software Engineers with best practices and leadership.
- Strong hands‑on expertise in Java and Spring Boot for building scalable backend services.
- Experience with monitoring and APM tools such as Dynatrace and CloudWatch.
- Deep knowledge of AWS, Kubernetes/ROSA, automation, CI/CD, and reliability engineering.
- Strong grounding in security architecture, including secure design patterns, cloud security controls, and compliance‑aligned engineering practices.
- Expertise in scalable RDBMS such as Oracle or Exadata, including deployments and performance optimization on AWS.




- Experience architecting solutions that incorporate AI/ML or GenAI capabilities, including LLM integration, agentic workflows, or AI-powered features.
- Familiarity with AWS AI/ML services at a design and evaluation level, including Bedrock, SageMaker, and AgentCore.
- Demonstrated ability to collaborate with engineering teams to drive execution and delivery of business value.
- Proven success leading large architecture deliveries and modernization programs.
- Strong product mindset, domain understanding, and cross‑functional collaboration skills.
- Must have excellent planning and organizational skills, robust verbal, written communication, and facilitation skills.
- Execute with a Sense of Urgency.
- Must be performing satisfactorily in present position.
- Consistently prioritizes safety and security of self, others, and personal data.
- Embraces diverse people, thinking, and styles.

Behavioral Competencies

- Ability to champion a collaborative environment by empowering team members, demonstrating resilience, being inclusive and building a culture of trust.
- Ability to build and sustain robust networks across internal and external stakeholders.
- Being a coach/mentor/advisor to drive continuous team development and growth.
- Use systemic thinking to drive business results and strategic decisions that enhance organizational outcomes.
- Ability to advocate for customer-focused innovations, model empathy in decision-making, inspiring others to approach problems from the customer’s perspective and decisions that reflect an uncompromising commitment to customer safety, fostering trust and loyalty.

What Will Give You a Competitive Edge (Preferred Qualifications)

- Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Information Systems or related technical field is preferred.
- Experience working in an airline technology environment is preferred.
- AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Professional or AWS Certified DevOps Engineer – Professional.
- Advanced knowledge of Java or another enterprise programming language and frameworks.
- Experience with modern observability stacks (Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog, etc.)
- Background in DevOps and SRE practices.
- Experience working with agentic frameworks such as AWS Strands, Google ADK, LangChain, or LangGraph.
- Experience designing MCP-based integrations to connect AI agents with enterprise tools and data sources.
- Familiarity with prompt engineering principles, RAG architecture, or multi-agent orchestration patterns.
- Ability to influence product strategy and long‑term technology direction.

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.

📌 Architect (Bengaluru)
🏢 Delta Technology Hub
📍 Bengaluru