How You'll Help Us Keep Climbing (Overview & Key Responsibilities)
Key Responsibilities
- 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
What You Need To Succeed (Minimum Qualifications)
WHAT YOU NEED TO SUCCEED (MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS):
- Bachelor's degree in Relevant Field
- 4+ 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 work independently and collaborate across distributed teams
Behavioral Competencies
- Ability to produce high quality results, work in a collaborative environment by embracing diverse perspectives and with a solution-based approach.
- Adapt communication clearly and concisely based on team dynamics and expresses thoughts & ideas effectively.
- Ability to engage effectively with peers and stakeholders to build trust and reliable working relationships.
- Ability to understand business processes, implement innovative solutions, guide juniors on continuous improvement by constantly updating oneself on current technology & trends.
Inquisitive to understand customer and business expectations while creating value addition on technical solutions.
What Will Give You a Competitive Edge (Preferred Qualifications)
- Healthcare data experience (claims, eligibility, pharmacy, clinical)
- AWS experience (Redshift, SageMaker, Lambda, Step Functions)
- ML feature engineering or model deployment experience
- CI/CD tools (GitHub Actions, Jenkins, or similar)
- Workflow orchestration tools (Airflow, Dagster, or similar)
About The Company
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.
In 2024, Delta was recognized by Fortune with a No. 11 placement on
Fortune's Top 50 Most Admired Companies list. The company's strong management and commitment to providing elevated experiences and premium products also secured a No. 1 ranking out of the eight airlines on the list. Delta landed on
TIME's inaugural list of the
World's Best Companies, coming in at No. 12 the only U.S. airline in the top 155. TIME's award is based on three criteria: employee satisfaction, revenue growth and sustainability.
Delta's people-first culture continues to be recognized, earning the airline a spot on
Fortune's 100 Best Companies to Work For list for the fifth year. Delta is the only airline included on the 2024 list.
Additionally, Delta earned a coveted spot, on
Fast Companys list of the
Most Innovative Companies, climbing from its No. 8 spot in 2023 to No. 2 in the travel category. The airline was recognized for its Wi-Fi revolution that is working to ensure the future of travel is connected.
About The Delta Technology Hub (DTH), Bangalore
Delta has fast emerged as a customer-focused, innovation-led, technology-enabled 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 distributed team to create memorable experiences for customers.
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.
- Collaborate with research, innovation and IP co-development partners.
- 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: Insurance, Commute, Meals, and Special Travel opportunities.
Role Summary
Benefits and Perks to Help You Keep Climbing
The Senior 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.
