Lead Engineer – Agentic AI
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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.”
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.
Benefits
We offer programs and plans for a healthy mind, body, wallet and life, including health coverage, wellbeing and support programs, retirement, vacation and sick leave, maternity, paternity & adoption leave, continuing education and training, and voluntary benefit options.
Equal Opportunity Policy Statement
Alight is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer and does not discriminate against anyone based on any protected characteristic. We provide reasonable accommodations for individuals with disabilities.
Authorization to Work
Applicants must have work authorization that does not require future visa sponsorship.
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