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

This Lead Data Engineer will be the engine behind our platform's acceleration. Working alongside our infrastructure and automation lead, this role transforms our ability to build reliable, scalable data pipelines that power everything from executive dashboards to AI predictions. Without this foundation, the insights layer cannot exist.

Parallel development — build multiple domain data models simultaneously

AI readiness — dedicated capacity for feature engineering and ML pipelines

The Laed Data Engineer designs, builds, and maintains the data infrastructure that powers Delta's Health Intelligence Platform. This role owns the pipelines that transform raw healthcare data from vendors (UMR, UHC, CVS, Spring Health) into clean, trusted, AI-ready data assets. You'll work with modern tools — dbt, Redshift Serverless, AWS SageMaker — and collaborate with data quality, visualization, and data science teams to deliver enterprise-scale healthcare analytics.

Build and optimize dbt models across staging, intermediate, domain, and marts layers following healthcare data best practices

Design and implement data pipelines for healthcare vendor data ingestion, transformation, and quality validation

Develop automated monitoring and alerting to catch data issues before they impact downstream analytics

Create ML feature engineering pipelines that prepare data for predictive models in SageMaker and Bedrock

Optimize Redshift performance through query tuning, table design, and workload management

Build CI/CD pipelines for reliable, automated deployments across environments





Document data models and pipelines to enable team knowledge sharing and platform maintainability

Bachelor's degree in Relevant Field.

7-12 years of relevant work experience, including 3+ years of data engineering experience with SQL and Python

Hands-on experience with DBT or similar transformation frameworks

Experience with cloud data warehouses (Redshift, Snowflake, or BigQuery)

Strong understanding of data modeling, ETL/ELT patterns, and data quality

Ability to set priorities with the team by understanding interdependence, inspiring team members with consistent focus, quality output, and timelines.

Healthcare data experience (claims, eligibility, pharmacy, clinical)

AWS experience (Redshift, SageMaker, Lambda, Step Functions)

ML feature engineering or model deployment experience

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. 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. 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 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 Delta Technology Hub was a finalist for the iVolunteer Awards 2024/2025 in the 'Leader in Employee Volunteering' category. At the DTH, you get the prospect to work on projects with a significant impact on business outcomes and customer experience.

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.

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