Agentic AI Engineer, Lead - Virtual

Alight Solutions

1d • Remote

About The Position

Agentic AI Lead Engineer Do you enjoy solving complex problems A great place to work 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. We’re seeking a Lead Engineer (10+ years’ development experience) to design and build agentic AI solutions that tackle complex, cross‑domain problems. You’ll lead a team of engineers, set technical direction for software design and architecture, and collaborate closely with Architecture and Product to deliver secure, scalable systems in Java and Python, leveraging AWS cloud services.

Requirements

• 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).
• 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.

Responsibilities

• Owning end‑to‑end technical outcomes: architecture, design, implementation, and production support
• Partnering with Product to translate business requirements into technical roadmaps; lead backlog refinement, estimation, and sprint planning.
• Designing agentic AI systems: multi‑agent orchestration, tool‑use, retrieval (RAG), planning, and self‑evaluation loops.
• Defining and implementing AI agentic standards and guardrails for safety, compliance, and ethical use, including policy enforcement and observability.
• Integrating agents with APIs, event streams, and data platforms; measure outcomes against product KPIs.
• Defining and evolve service architectures with strong non‑functional qualities (performance, scalability, security).
• Collaborating with Architecture on standards, cross-team integrations, and technology governance.
• Implementing CI/CD automation, Infrastructure as Code, and GitOps workflows; champion release engineering best practices.
• Implementing production observability (APM/logging/metrics/tracing), define/publish SLOs & SLAs, and use data to improve reliability and performance.

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

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Education Level: No Education Listed