Senior Application Architect - Virtual

Senior Application Architect

Are you a keen problem solver?

Come Make a Difference!

Our story

At Alight, we believe a company’s success starts with its people. At our core, we Champion People, help our colleagues Grow with Purpose and true to our name we encourage colleagues to “Be Alight.”

Our Values:

Champion People – be empathetic and help create a place where everyone belongs.

Grow with purpose – Be inspired by our higher calling of improving lives.

Be Alight – act with integrity, be real and empower others.

It’s why we’re so driven to connect passion with purpose. Alight helps clients gain a benefits advantage while building a healthy and financially secure workforce by unifying the benefits ecosystem across health, wealth, wellbeing, absence management and navigation.

With a comprehensive total rewards package, continuing education and training, and tremendous potential with a growing global organization, Alight is the perfect place to put your passion to work.

Join our team if you Champion People, want to Grow with Purpose through acting with integrity and if you embody the meaning of Be Alight.

Learn more at careers.alight.com. 

**This role supports services provided to the U.S. federal government and/or federal government contractors. Proof of U.S. citizenship will be required at the time of hire.**

The Senior Architect partners closely with business and technology leaders to translate vision into clear, practical system architectures, ensuring consistency, quality, and alignment across platforms. This role includes people leadership, architectural governance, and collaboration across teams to drive shared success.

RESPONSIBILITIES

• Leading the design of complex application and platform solutions, promoting consistency, reusability, stability, and enterprise integration.
• Shaping and advance the application architecture strategy, aligning technology choices with business and IT goals.
• Serving as a design authority, ensuring architecture deliverables—developed internally or by partners—meet quality standards and align with enterprise strategies.
• Creating and maintain architecture artifacts that support both enterprise level alignment and operational needs.
• Appling CI/CD and automation practices using tools such as Terraform, Bitbucket, Jenkins, Artifactory, and cloud based deployment pipelines.
• Promoting DevSecOps, automation, and cloud native practices to improve reliability, efficiency, and delivery speed.
• Leading design reviews, code reviews, and architectural assessments to ensure adherence to standards and best practices.
• Working with business users and stakeholders to define project scope and ensure flexible designs that accommodate future enhancements.
• Designing and/or develop critical reference architecture materials to ensure consistency across enterprise applications.

REQUIREMENTS

• Demonstrate Solution Architecture & Design: Expertise in designing scalable, reusable, and integrated enterprise applications.
• Display Integration: experience in RESTful APIs, GraphQL, event streaming (Kafka), and messaging queues (RabbitMQ, SQS, etc.).
• Cloud Technologies: Hands-on experience with AWS, Azure, or GCP, including Lambda, Kubernetes, API Gateway, and containerization (Docker, Kubernetes, ECS, EKS).
• Demonstrate Security & Compliance: Expertise in OAuth, JWT, SSO, encryption, and secure coding practices.
• Demonstrate expereince in DevSecOps & CI/CD: Hands-on experience with Terraform, Bitbucket, Jenkins, Artifactory, and other automation tools.
• Maintain leading architecture teams and driving technical strategy.
• Advanced technical certifications such as AWS/Azure Solutions Architect, TOGAF/ Zachman, or Microsoft Certified Architect.

Alight requires all virtual interviews to be conducted on video.

Flexible Working

So that you can be your best at work and home, we consider flexible working arrangements wherever possible.  Alight has been a leader in the flexible workspace and “Top 100 Company for Remote Jobs” 5 years in a row.<