Lead Software Development Engineer

How You’ll Help Us Keep Climbing (Overview & Key Responsibilities) We are looking for an experienced software engineer to join our MDTS team as a Lead Development Engineer. In this role you’ll be part of a team that will support system monitoring, on-call support for batch jobs, perform tirage on anomalies identified for system or functional errors and optimize system performance for MIPS reduction and development/enhancement in TPF for improvements.

Responsibilities

• Responsible for participating in development, maintenance, enhancement for application issues and system optimization.
• Understand business requirements to provide the technical design of computer software
• Possess high level of programming expertise in TPF C, Basic Assembler Language for the zTPF environment to develop and maintain computer software
• Develop appropriate software and documentation according to Delta standards
• Support and troubleshoot computer systems as required, optimizing performance, resolving problems, and providing timely follow up on all problems
• Follow Delta standards and methodologies in the development and implementation of computer software
• Works/Consults across multiple projects; functions as an informal leader
• Responsible for providing hands-on expert level assistance to junior developers for technical issues.
• Practices safety-conscious behaviors in all operational processes and procedures
• Respects differing opinions and collaboration on creating solutions for Delta Airlines
• Collaborate with system or application owners to create secure, reliable, scalable software solutions
• Writes custom code or scripts to automate infrastructure, monitoring services, test cases, to do “destructive testing” to ensure adequate resiliency in production
• Collaborate cross-functionally with business and other IT teams across Delta
• Identifies unsecured code areas and implements fixes as they are discovered with or without tooling
• Identifies, implements, and shares technical solutions that can be used across the portfolio
• Identifies product enhancements to create a better experience for the end users
• Research and/or investigate technical issues impacting the organization and recommend solutions
• Provide application support for software running in production
• Proactively reviews the Performance and Capacity of all aspects of production: code, infrastructure, data, and message processing
• Triages high priority issues and outages as they arise
• Participates in learning activities around agile software development and development core practices, and mentors other team members in these best practices

What You Need To Succeed (Minimum Qualifications)

• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or Information Systems or any equivalent combination of experience, education, and/or training in the TPF application development field. Previous airline experience ideal.
• Excellent analytical, technology, communication, decision making and problem-solving skills
• Organized with an ability to prioritize workload, meet deadlines, and utilize time effectively
• Must have the ability to transform business and functional requirements into technical solutions
• 7 - 12 years of experience working in TPF Airline Operations and application development.
• Experience in Agile methodologies
• Knowledge with TPF, zTPF, TPFDF , Assembler.
• Prior exposure to airline or travel domain is a plus.
• Willingness to work in on-call support environments.
• Experience debugging components and code built by other developers.
• Ability to clearly communicate and coordinate with peers, product owners, and cross functional teams and design a relevant and time to market solution.
• Must have the ability to listen to customers and colleagues, convey ideas effectively, and prepare written documentation.
• Ability to quickly adapt to new tools and evolving technologies.
• Proactive in nature with customer satisfaction as a primary goal
• Embraces Diverse people, thinking and styles
• Consistently makes safety and security, of self and others, the priority
• Design Thinking
• Ensure code quality and documentation for supporting application post deployment.
• Demonstrated experience using AI-assisted development tools (e.g., GitHub Copilot, Claude, Kiro) to accomplish tasks such as generating and reviewing code, writing and maintaining tests, creating documentation, and debugging, while exercising sound judgment to validate …