How You'll Help Us Keep Climbing (Overview & Key Responsibilities) We are seeking a hands-on Manager, Data Engineering to lead execution across a portfolio of Flight Safety data engineering work while also serving as a senior individual contributor. This role is responsible for prioritization, sequencing, and delivery coordination across competing needs, while providing technical leadership, coaching, and site-level support for the local engineering effort.

The role is expected to operate in a working-leader model, with approximately 70–80% of time spent contributing directly to technical work and the remaining time focused on team coordination, coaching, and leadership responsibilities.

What You Need To Succeed (Minimum Qualifications)

- BS / MS degree in a technical or scientific field with 14+ years of overall relevant experience.
- Accountable (A) for intake, prioritization, sequencing, and trade-off decisions across the engineering portfolio. Defines execution priorities, clarifies ownership, escalates constraints, and aligns stakeholder demand with available capacity. May contribute to solution design and implementation but is distinct from the Data Engineer role in owning portfolio-level direction and delivery decisions.
- Own intake, prioritization, sequencing, and execution visibility across Flight Safety data engineering work
- Provide day-to-day leadership for the engineering effort, including work assignment, coordination, follow-through, and escalation of blockers
- Coach and support the Data Engineer while raising expectations for quality, maintainability, documentation, and disciplined execution
- Serve as the primary point of coordination between stakeholders, analysts, and technical partners on engineering scope, timing, and trade-offs
- Translate stakeholder needs into clear technical workstreams, delivery plans, and ownership boundaries
- Establish lightweight operating rhythms for intake, prioritization, execution tracking, and decision follow-up
- Provide hands-on technical contribution where needed, especially in higher-complexity or higher-ambiguity work, while maintaining accountability for overall portfolio delivery
- Identify resource gaps, competing demands, and execution risks, and surface them early with practical options or recommendations
- Reinforce a sustainable engineering model that reduces single-threaded dependency and increases repeatability over time
- Support site-level leadership through local coordination, team support,



and reinforcement of delivery standards and working norms
- Success Metrics
- Planning accuracy (planned vs. actual delivery timelines)
- Decision cycle time for prioritization and trade-offs
- Reduction in blocked or ownerless work
- % of work with clear priority, owner, and expected outcome
- Throughput of completed work across the portfolio
- Reduction in rework caused by unclear scope or conflicting priorities
- Stakeholder clarity and confidence in engineering priorities
- Growth in team independence, consistency, and execution discipline

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) Data Engineering 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 advantages 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.

📌 Manager - Data Engineering (Bengaluru)
🏢 Delta Technology Hub
📍 Bengaluru