How You'll Help Us Keep Climbing (Overview & Key Responsibilities)
Role Summary
Delta Air Lines is seeking a talented and motivated Data Scientist to join their SVOE – HR Innovation & Employee Experience (Single View of Employee) team. This role is designed for a Junior Data Scientist with 2–5 years of hands-on experience who is passionate about using data to generate insights and build data-driven solutions. You will work with structured and semi-structured datasets to perform exploratory analysis, feature engineering, and statistical modeling in support of business and product decisions.
You will develop and maintain data pipelines and analytical workflows using Python and AWS services (such as S3, lambda, Redshift, Athena, Bedrock, SageMaker), ensuring data quality, reproducibility, and scalability. The role involves applying machine learning techniques, hypothesis testing, and descriptive analytics to solve well-defined
Responsibilities
- Contribute to high-impact analytical and modelling projects from problem definition to measurable business outcome.
- Perform hypothesis testing, model validation and back testing
- Build predictive and prescriptive models using appropriate statistical and machine-learning methods.
- Clearly communicate uncertainty, limitations, and trade-offs
- Partner with engineering teams to ensure models are implemented reliably and responsibly in production.
- Contribute to our standards for validation, documentation, and reproducible analytical practice.
What You Need To Succeed (Minimum Qualifications)
- 3+ years of strong experience in Python (pandas, numpy, scikit-learn) and basic SQL
- 3+ Years of relevant experience with AWS Techstack (S3, lambda, redshift/postgres)
- Have performed exploratory data analysis(EDA) and ability to identify data patterns
- Strong understanding of ML fundamentals
- Build and evaluate ML models (classification, regression, clustering)
- Experience in time-series or behavioral data analysis
- Ability to apply feature engineering techniques
- Basic understanding of MLOps
- Exposure to NLP or text analytics(ex: sentiment analysis, survey text analysis) is a plus
- Excellent communication skills with the ability to present complex data findings to both technical and non-technical audiences.
What Will Give You a Competitive Edge (Preferred Qualifications)
- Atleast one end-to-end ML project involving – data extraction, preparation, feature engineering, model building, model evaluation, delivering results in a usable format(dashboard, report or dataset)
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.
