2 days ago
Remote, United StatesStaff+
Base Salary
$185k - $235k/yr
Responsibilities
- Own the technical design, architecture, and implementation of ingestion, transformation, and orchestration infrastructure for the Data Engine.
- Design extensible data models, transformation frameworks, and configuration-driven abstractions for heterogeneous data.
- Build reusable developer and operations tooling for independently developing, deploying, monitoring, and maintaining integrations.
- Design scalable orchestration and execution patterns for thousands of independently managed data pipelines and workloads.
- Improve reliability, observability, automated recovery, monitoring, and infrastructure cost and operational efficiency.
- Partner with Product, Architecture, Software Engineering, and Operations on platform capabilities and client rollout needs.
- Establish platform standards, documentation, reference implementations, and adoption guidance.
Requirements
- 8+ years of data platform, data engineering, or software engineering experience with production-grade data systems.
- Deep knowledge of data modeling, SQL, transformation frameworks, orchestration, and data quality.
- Extensive Python engineering experience creating extensible frameworks, reusable abstractions, and developer tooling.
- Experience designing and scaling data platforms, orchestration, pipeline execution, and infrastructure for large numbers of independently managed workloads.
- Experience designing configuration-driven systems that generalize complex processing requirements.
- Experience supporting production applications and operational workflows with strong reliability, availability, and observability requirements.
- Ability to independently establish technical direction and drive platform architecture and integrated delivery across Product and Engineering teams.
- Fluency with approved agentic coding practices.
- Preferred: hands-on experience with Dagster or comparable modern data orchestration platforms.
- Preferred: healthcare or benefits data experience.
- Preferred: experience optimizing cloud infrastructure, platform cost, and operational support models, particularly within AWS.
Benefits
- Health, dental, and vision coverage starting Day One.
- Wellbeing programs, retirement plans with contribution matching, generous time off, parental leave, continuing education, and career growth opportunities.
- Flexible working arrangements and a virtual work arrangement, with occasional travel to a physical office potentially required.
- Virtual interviews are conducted by video and may require cameras to be on.
- Employment is contingent on successfully completing a background check consistent with Alight’s employment policies.
About Alight
Alight provides cloud-based benefits administration and human capital solutions to large employers, combining its Alight Worklife platform with outsourced services for health, wealth, leave, and wellbeing programs. It earns revenue through SaaS subscriptions and long-term managed services and consulting. Headquartered in Deerfield, Illinois, Alight was carved out of Aon’s benefits outsourcing business by Blackstone in 2017 and is now publicly traded on the NYSE (ticker: ALIT).