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Alight is seeking a senior technology executive to lead client-facing platforms and solutions across the company's product portfolio-Health, Navigation, Wealth, and Leaves.

Reporting to the CTO, this leader is accountable for the end-to-end engineering and evolution of Alight's core technology platforms and solutions, ensuring they are scalable, secure, modern, and aligned to business strategy. The role serves as a critical bridge between Product, Engineering, Delivery, and Data/AI leadership, translating business priorities into cohesive platform and solution capabilities.

As a core member of the Technology Leadership Team, this executive will partner closely with Product leadership, Delivery leadership, SVP of Strategic Programs, Data, and AI, and VP, Infrastructure, Ops and Architecture to drive integrated outcomes across platforms, data, and client solutions, ensuring a consistent client experience while accelerating innovation at scale. This role operates at enterprise scale, spanning all client-facing products and platforms globally, and owns the technology realization of all product solutions, ensuring consistency in architecture, engineering standards, and platform leverage across product lines.

Purpose & Strategic Outcomes

• Establish a cohesive, scalable platform and solution architecture across all product lines
• Drive modernization and simplification of the technology landscape, reducing fragmentation
• Ensure platforms deliver reliable, secure, and cost-efficient client outcomes at enterprise scale
• Act as the senior executive counterpart to transformation leadership, balancing stability with change
• Enable faster product innovation and delivery through reusable platforms and services
• Ensure client-facing solutions are reliable, secure, and differentiated

Core Accountabilities

Platforms & Solution Engineering

• Own end-to-end engineering of Alight's client-facing platforms and solutions across Health, Navigation, Wealth, and Leaves
• Drive standardization and reuse through shared platform capabilities and components
• Ensure platforms are designed for scale, performance, resiliency, and extensibility
• Lead simplification, consolidation, and technical debt reduction initiatives
• Ensure all platforms are secure by design and compliant with enterprise standards
• Define and execute a platform-first strategy, shifting from siloed solutions to reusable, composable enterprise capabilities

Product, Delivery & Data/AI Alignment

• Partner closely with Product leadership to translate product strategy into scalable platform capabilities
• Partner with Delivery leadership to ensure solutions are deployable, operable, and scalable in production
• Collaborate closely with the SVP of Strategic Programs, Data, and AI to:
  • Align platform strategy with enterprise data and AI capabilities
  • Enable AI/GenAI-powered client experiences and operational efficiency
  • Ensure tight integration between platforms, data architecture, and AI services
• Partner closely with Infrastructure, Operations, and architecture leadership to ensure seamless build-to-run handoff, production readiness, and ongoing operability of all platforms

Client & Revenue Impact

• Own technology platforms that directly support client delivery, member experience, and revenue growth
• Partner with SVP of Strategic Programs in client engagements involving platform capabilities, roadmap, and innovation
• Ensure technology solutions meet SLAs, performance expectations, and contractual commitments

Leadership & Organizational Impact

• Build and lead a high-performing organization across:
  • Platform engineering
  • Solution engineering by product line
• Establish clear accountability across platform, product, data, and delivery functions
• Develop senior leadership talent and succession
• Foster a culture of innovation, ownership, engineering excellence, and client focus

Measures of Success

• Platform scalability, performance, and reliability across all client-facing systems
• Speed of product delivery driven by platform reuse and standardization
• Reduction in architecture complexity and technical debt
• Adoption of enterprise architecture standards across teams
• Measurable impact from AI-enabled platform capabilities
• Improved client outcomes, experience, and platform-driven differentiation

Experience & Qualifications

• 20+ years of technology leadership experience in large-scale, enterprise environments
• Proven experience leading platform engineering and client-facing solutions at scale
• Experience background in modern technology architectures (cloud, APIs, microservices, data platforms, AI/ML)
• Experience owning technology across multiple product lines or domains
• Demonstrated ability to operate in matrixed environments with senior stakeholders
• Track record of driving platform-led transformation and modernization

Application and Interview

By applying for a position with Alight, you understand that, should you be made an offer, it will be contingent on your undergoing and successfully completing a background check consistent with Alight's employment policies. Background checks may include some or all the following based on the nature of the position: SSN/SIN validation, education verification, employment verification, and criminal check, search against global sanctions and government watch lists, credit check, and/or drug test. You will be notified during the hiring process which checks are required by the position.

Alight requires all virtual interviews to be conducted on video. Please be aware that Alight is a camera-on culture and may require occasional travel to one of our physical office locations.

Our commitment to Inclusion

We celebrate differences and believe in fostering an environment where everyone feels valued, respected, and supported. We know that diverse teams are stronger, more innovative, and more successful.

At Alight, we welcome and embrace all individuals, regardless of their background, and are dedicated to creating a culture that enables every employee to thrive. Join us in building a brighter, more inclusive future.

As part of this commitment, Alight will ensure that persons with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodations for the hiring process.If reasonable accommodation is needed, please contact alightcareers@alight.com.

Equal Opportunity Policy Statement

Alight is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer and does not discriminate against anyone based on sex, race, color, religion, creed, national origin, ancestry, age, physical or mental disability, medical condition, pregnancy, marital or domestic partner status, citizenship, military or veteran status, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity or expression, genetic information, or any other legally protected characteristics or conduct covered by federal, state, or local law. In addition, we take affirmative action to employ disabled persons, disabled veterans, and other covered veterans.

Alight provides reasonable accommodations to the known limitations of otherwise qualified employees and applicants for employment with disabilities and sincerely held religious beliefs, practices and observances, unless doing so would result in undue hardship. Applicants for employment may request reasonable accommodations/modifications by contacting their recruiter.

Authorization to work in the Employing Country

Applicants for employment in the country in which they are applying (Employing Country) must have work authorization that does not, now or in the future, require sponsorship of a visa for employment authorization in the Employing Country and with Alight.

Note, this job description does not restrict management's right to assign or reassign duties and responsibilities of this job to other entities; including but not limited to subsidiaries, partners, or purchasers of Alight business units.

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We offer you a competitive total rewards package, continuing education & training, and tremendous potential with a growing worldwide organization.

Salary Pay Range

Minimum :

230,000.00 USD

Maximum :

275,000.00 USD

Pay Transparency Statement: Alight considers a variety of factors in determining whether to extend an offer of employment and in setting the appropriate compensation level, including, but not limited to, a candidate's experience, education, certification/credentials, market data, internal equity, and geography. Alight makes these decisions on an individualized, non-discriminatory basis. Bonus and/or incentive eligibility are determined by role and level. Alight also offers a comprehensive benefits package; for specific details on our benefits package, please visit: Wellbeing and Benefits Selector Page - Alight

DISCLAIMER:

Nothing in this job description restricts management's right to assign or reassign duties and responsibilities of this job to other entities; including but not limited to subsidiaries, partners, or purchasers of Alight business units.

Alight Solutions provides equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, creed, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability, genetic information, pregnancy, childbirth or related medical condition, veteran, marital, parental, citizenship, or domestic partner status, or any other status protected by applicable national, federal, state or local law. Alight Solutions is committed to a diverse workforce and is an affirmative action employer.