Lead Engineer — Agentic AI

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. 

What you’ll do

Technical leadership & delivery

• Own end‑to‑end technical outcomes: architecture, design, implementation, and production support
• Partner with Product to translate business requirements into technical roadmaps; lead backlog refinement, estimation, and sprint planning.

Agentic AI engineering

• Design agentic AI systems: multi‑agent orchestration, tool‑use, retrieval (RAG), planning, and self‑evaluation loops.
• Define and implement AI agentic standards and guardrails for safety, compliance, and ethical use, including policy enforcement and observability.
• Integrate agents with APIs, event streams, and data platforms; measure outcomes against product KPIs

Architecture & platform

• Define and evolve service architectures with strong non‑functional qualities (performance, scalability, security).
• Collaborate with Architecture on standards, cross‑team integrations, and technology governance.

DevOps, SRE, and runtime excellence

• Implement CI/CD automation, Infrastructure as Code, and GitOps workflows; champion release engineering best practices.
• Implement production observability (APM/logging/metrics/tracing), define/publish SLOs & SLAs, and use data to improve reliability and performance.

Minimum qualifications

• 10+ years of hands‑on software development with Java, Python, JavaScript, and TypeScript; strong computer science fundamentals.
• AWS expertise: designing and deploying cloud‑native solutions using AWS services (EC2, Lambda, S3, RDS, IAM) and AWS Bedrock Agents for generative AI and agentic workflows.
• Proven experience building microservices/APIs and delivering high‑scale systems.
• Applied DevOps/SRE skills: CI/CD, infrastructure as code, GitOps, and production observability.
• Demonstrated ability to collaborate with Architecture and Product and to lead engineers through ambiguity and complex problem‑solving.
• Core values: Demonstrates Curiosity (continuous learning, exploring new technologies) and Persistence (driving solutions through challenges and ambiguity).

Preferred qualifications

• Experience with agent frameworks (orchestration, tool‑use), LLMs, vector databases, and retrieval pipelines (RAG).
• Hands‑on with Kubernetes/ECS, Terraform/CloudFormation, Jenkins/GitHub Actions, and APM/logging tools.
• Secure software design (OAuth/OIDC, secrets mgmt), performance profiling/tuning, and cost‑aware architectural decisions.
• Agile delivery at scale; comfort leading estimation and backlog processes with Product counterparts.

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.

Benefits

We offer programs and plans for a healthy mind, body, wallet and life because it’s important our benefits care for the whole person. Options include a variety of health coverage options, wellbeing and support programs, retirement, vacation and sick leave, maternity, paternity & adoption leave, continuing education and training as well as several voluntary benefit options. 

By applying for a position with Alight, you understand that, sho