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About the Role
As a Data Engineer on the AIDT Delivery & Operations Team, you’ll operate in a hybrid role that blends hands‑on data engineering with impactful business and data analytics. You’ll design, build, and manage scalable data pipelines, including streaming data and API integrations, while delivering analysis that drives meaningful decision‑making. You’ll provide end‑to‑end design guidance for analytic solutions, deploy pipelines into higher environments, and integrate with SQL‑based systems to ensure reliable, production‑ready data products. Partnering with focused groups across Southwest, you’ll help create unique data infrastructure, run tests to isolate issues, and refine systems to adapt to evolving business needs. By combining technical execution with analytical curiosity, you’ll support high‑quality data solutions that power critical operational and enterprise outcomes.
Responsibilities
- Assemble large, complex sets of data that meet non-functional and functional business requirements
- Identify, design and implement internal process improvements including re-designing infrastructure for greater scalability, optimizing data delivery, and automating manual processes
- Build required infrastructure for optimal extraction, transformation and loading of data from various data sources using AWS and SQL technologies
- Build analytical tools to utilize the data pipeline, providing actionable insight into key business performance metrics including operational efficiency and customer acquisition
- Work with stakeholders including data, design, product and executive teams and assisting them with data-related technical issues
- Work with stakeholders including the Executive, Product, Data and Design teams to support their data infrastructure needs while assisting with data-related technical issues
- Generate or adapt equipment and technology to serve user needs
- May perform other job duties as directed by Employee's Leaders
Requirements
- U.S. citizenship or current authorization to work in the U.S. required and no current or future work authorization sponsorship available
- Must maintain a well-groomed appearance per Company appearance standards as described in established guidelines
- Must be a U.S. citizen or have authorization to work in the United States as defined by the Immigration Reform Act of 1986
- Must be at least 18 years of age
- Must be able to comply with Company attendance standards as described in established guidelines
- Must be able to travel and /or attend Company and non-Company facilities and remote locations such as remote-based offices as necessary
Skills
- Knowledge of the practical application of engineering science and technology, including applying principles, techniques, procedures, and equipment to the design and production of various goods and services
- Knowledge of design techniques, tools, and principles involved in production of precision technical plans, blueprints, drawings, and models
- Ability to use logic and reasoning to identify the strengths and weaknesses of alternative solutions, conclusions or approaches to problems
- Ability to understand new information for both current and future problem-solving and decision-making
- Skilled in identifying complex problems and reviewing related information to develop and evaluate options and implement solutions
- Ability to tell when something is wrong or is likely to go wrong. It does not involve solving the problem, only recognizing there is a problem
- Ability to combine pieces of information to form general rules or conclusions (includes finding a relationship among seemingly unrelated events)
- Ability to shift back and forth between two or more activities or sources of information (such as speech, sounds, touch, or other sources)
- Ability to arrange things or actions in a certain order or pattern according to a specific rule or set of rules (e.g., patterns of numbers, letters, words, pictures, mathematical operations)
- Ability to identify or detect a known pattern (a figure, object, word, or sound) that is hidden in other distracting material
- Cloud infrastructure
- DataLake
- ETL experience ensuring source to target data integrity
- Various filetypes (Delimited Text, Fixed Width, XML, JSON, Parque)
- ServiceBus, setting up ingress and egress within a subscription, or relevant AWS Cloud services administrative experience
- Unit Testing, Code Quality tools, CI/CD Technologies, Security and Container Technologies
- Agile development experience and Agile ceremonies and practices
- Python (including PySpark)
- SQL
- AWS Lambda
- AWS Glue
- EMR (or equivalent cloud data‑processing services)
- Confluent Kafka
- AWS Step Functions
- EventBridge
- Data Warehousing methodologies
- Relational Databases
- Developing robust data pipelines with error handling, monitoring, and quality checks
- Modern data formats such as Parquet
- Exploratory Data Analysis (EDA) to assess data quality, identify patterns, and generate actionable insights
Location
- Remote
Work Type
- Hybrid
- Remote
Experience Level
- Intermediate level experience
- Preferred: Proficiency
- Preferred: Experience
- Preferred: Familiarity
- Preferred: Strong knowledge
Education Level
- High School Diploma or GED
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information systems or similar fields of study or equivalent advanced level experience
Salary/Compensations
- $114,200 - 126,900 per year
Benefits
- Fly for free, as a privilege, on any open seat on all Southwest flights (your eligible dependents too)
- Southwest will help fund your 401(k) retirement savings with Company contributions up to 9.3% of your eligible earnings
- Potential for annual ProfitSharing contribution in the Southwest Retirement Savings Plan- when Southwest profits, you profit
- Competitive health insurance for you and your eligible dependents (including pets)
- Health plan coverage options that start from the very first day of employment
- 30 days to select and enroll in your health plan with coverage retroactively available to your first day of employment
About the Company
- We are committed to provide our Employees a stable work environment with equal opportunity for learning and personal growth.
- Creativity and innovation are encouraged for improving the effectiveness of Southwest Airlines.
- Above all, Employees will be provided the same concern, respect, and caring attitude within the organization that they are expected to share externally with every Southwest Customer.
Equal Opportunity
- We’re committed to fair hiring practices and to making employment decisions without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, national origin, age, military or veteran status, disability, genetic information, or other legally protected characteristics.
- Southwest Airlines is an Equal Opportunity Employer.