At Delta Air Lines, connection is at the heart of everything we do and guides our every action. We strive to welcome and care for all our customers during their travels with us and aim to deliver an elevated experience.

Delta is investing in and growing our capabilities across our IT global technology hubs, to continually improve the end-to-end travel experience for our customers and enable our 90,000 Delta people who serve them.

Join us on our transformation journey in becoming a world-class IT organization at the worlds best airline!

Our Cloud Application Modernization team is seeking a highly motivated and adaptable IT Senior Program Manager. In this role, and as part of the broader Reliability, Architecture, and Infrastructure Services for the Enterprise (RAISE) organization, you will lead transformation initiatives, focused on modernizing legacy infrastructure into logical and scalable environments. You will work closely with application portfolios, system integration vendors, and collaborate with senior leadership across the organization to drive strategic objectives.

The ideal candidate has strong executive communication skills, stakeholder management expertise, and a foundational understanding of infrastructure and networking. This role is for you if you are a technology enthusiast, natural problem solver, go getter, and lead by example through implementing sound agile principles and mentoring others.

Responsibilities include but not limited to:

• Guide strategic initiatives to migrate, modernize, and optimize applications and data centers.
• Deliver program outcomes within allocated budget and timeline constraints, ensuring successful delivery of projects while maintaining alignment with business goals.
• Responsible for program governance functions including, but not limited to, contract compliance, risk tracking and escalations, and change requests.
• Partner with leaders on transition strategies and manage cross functional dependencies by collaborating with other leaders and staff to obtain information critical to the success of the program.
• Engage with senior leadership and serve as an escalation point for major projects, preparing and presenting updates for senior leaders, ensuring visibility into program progress, risks, and impact.
• Drive Agile adoption across initiatives, integrating principles into project workflows.
• Leverage baseline knowledge in understanding networking, servers, and infrastructure at a strategic level.
• Oversee program managers and team members executing migrations, demonstrating high sense of urgency, flexibility, and responsiveness.
• Demonstrate sound judgment, ability to operate in an entrepreneurial, fast paced, performance-oriented environment, as well as make decisions autonomously.

• Competitive salary, industry-leading profit sharing program, and performance incentives
• 401(k) with generous company contributions up to 9
• New hires are eligible for up to 2-weeks of vacation. This is earned for use in the following vacation year (April 1 – March 31)
• In addition to vacation, new hires are eligible for up to 56 hours of paid personal time within a 12-month period
• 10 paid holidays per calendar year
• Birthing parents are eligible for 12-weeks of paid maternity/parental leave
• Non-birthing parents are eligible for 2-weeks of paid parental leave
• Comprehensive health benefits including medical, dental, vision, short/long term disability and life insurance benefits
• Family care assistance through fertility support, surrogacy and adoption assistance, lactation support, subsidized back-up care, and programs that help with loved ones in all stages
• Holistic Wellbeing programs to support physical, emotional, social, and financial health, including access to an employee assistance program offering support for you and anyone in your household, free financial coaching, and extensive resources supporting mental health
• Domestic and International space-available flight privileges for employees and eligible family members
• Career development programs to achieve your long-term career goals
• World-wide partnerships to engage in community service and innovative goals created to focus on sustainability and reducing our carbon footprint
• Business Resource Groups created to connect employees with common interests to promote inclusion, provide perspective and help implement strategies
• Recognition rewards and awards through the platform Unstoppable Together
• Access to over 500 discounts, specialty savings and voluntary benefits through Deltaperks such as car and hotel rentals and auto, home, and pet insurance, legal services, and childcare

• Bachelor’s degree in related field, or commensurate experience
• 9+ years of experience in IT infrastructure, cloud modernization, or large-scale program management in a variety of IT environments

• Proven experience leading complex infrastructure programs, including data center transformations and cloud migrations.

• Strong executive communication skills, capable of presenting to senior leadership.
• Ability to manage and direct project managers, ensuring alignment with broader program goals.
• Experience navigating high-stress environments with multiple competing priorities.

• Familiarity and working with Version1

• Familiarity with enterprise networking and infrastructure concepts.
• Demonstrated success in stakeholder management, risk mitigation, and organizational change.
• Ability to coordinate teams, ensuring seamless program execution.