Delta Technology Hub
Website:
deltatechhub.com
Company:
https://www.linkedin.com/company/delta-technology-hub
Seniority: Not Applicable
Industries: Airlines and Aviation
Job details:
How You'll Help Us Keep Climbing (Overview & Key Responsibilities)
Manager – Health Data Science and Engineering
The Manager – Health Data Science and Engineering provides leadership and oversight for all Delta Wellness data science, analytics, and data engineering initiatives delivered from the Delta Technology Hub (DTH) in Bengaluru. This manager will help ensure that cross‑functional teams deliver robust data platforms, analytic products, and machine‑learning and GenAI solutions using health claims and real-world data on employee well-being.
Key Responsibilities
- Acting as the primary liaison between Delta Wellness data engineers, analysts, and data scientists with DTH team members, ensuring transparent communication of priorities, progress and risks.
- Provide guidance on data engineering and platform architecture — overseeing the design and operation of secure, scalable cloud data pipelines and well-modeled, governed data products that power analytics and AI across Delta's wellness footprint.
- Set and enforce engineering standards across the data platform — layered transformation (e.g., dbt), CI/CD, automated testing, documentation, and observability.
- Provides guidance on statistical and data science approaches to deliver timely and accurate business insights and reporting for wellness operations across Delta Air Lines footprint.
- Promote data science and AI best practices through showcases, demos and communities of practice.
- Lead and mentor multidisciplinary data analysts and data engineers, fostering high performance and continuous development.
- Oversee recruitment, onboarding and career progression for data engineers, scientists, analysts.
- Champion an inclusive, data‑driven culture that rewards experimentation and learning.
- Provide coaching, feedback and performance reviews; ensure team wellbeing and policy compliance.
- Oversee regular reporting on delivery KPIs and model‑performance metrics.
- Proactively surface and mitigate risks, dependencies and blockers impacting data initiatives.
What You Need To Succeed (Minimum Qualifications)
- BS / MS degree in a technical or scientific field with 14+ years of overall relevant experience.
- Proven experience leading data engineering, analytics, data science teams.
- Strong proficiency in SQL and at least one programming language (Python or R)
- Experience analyzing healthcare, wellness, or claims-related data
- Advanced skills in data visualization and reporting tools (Tableau, Power BI, or similar)
- Experience with advanced analytical applications (e.g., simulation, optimization, statistical analysis, linear regression, machine learning)
- Solid Understanding of Project Management.
- Solid grounding in data modeling and data warehousing — enough to review and guide complex transformation logic.
- Strong working knowledge of cloud data platforms (AWS preferred — Redshift, Glue, Airflow, Lambda, S3) and modern data engineering (dbt, CI/CD, IaC), with a track record of leading teams that deliver on them.
- Experience leading delivery of GenAI/LLM solutions (RAG, summarization, agents), ideally on AWS Bedrock or comparable.
- Experience establishing data quality, testing, and governance frameworks for analytics/engineering teams.
- Working knowledge of data privacy and security for regulated data (PHI/PII, HIPAA, de-identification/tokenization).
- Experience in Team Leadership: Managed, mentored, coached and developed teams, fostering a collaborative and creative work environment.
- Must be capable of working under pressure, managing multiple tasks simultaneously
- Embraces diverse people, thinking and styles
- Consistently makes safety and security, of self and others, the priority
- Must be performing satisfactorily in present position (if transferring internally)
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)
Experience analyzing healthcare, wellness, or claims-related data
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.
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