Lead Engineer - Agentic AI

Alight Solutions • Chicago, IL

1d • Remote

About The Position

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. Alight is a leading cloud-based human capital technology and services provider that powers confident health, wealth and wellbeing decisions for 36 million people and dependents. Our Alight Worklife® platform combines data and analytics with a simple, seamless user experience. Supported by our global delivery capabilities, Alight Worklife is transforming the employee experience for people around the world. With personalized, data-driven health, wealth, pay and wellbeing insights, Alight brings people the security of better outcomes and peace of mind throughout life’s big moments and most important decisions. Learn how Alight unlocks growth for organizations of all sizes at alight.com. Our values are the essence of who we are: Champion people. We are empathetic and have created a place where everyone belongs. And we win together. Grow with purpose. We are inspired by our higher calling. We fail forward and choose progress over perfection. We are brave, show grit and grow our whole selves. Be Alight. We are a beacon that empowers others. We act with integrity and are real. And we find ways to add joy. Our Colleague Experience At Alight Solutions, we are reimaging how people and organizations thrive. To deliver on this purpose, we do things differently. From company leaders to our newest colleagues, we all play a role in bringing our values to life. Every colleague shapes how Alight can become better, stronger and brighter – together. With technology as our catalyst and humanity at our core, we advance each day toward a better future in work and life. We understand the powerful human connections that create success for organizations. We bring an industry leader's expertise and a true partner's commitment to our benefits and administration solutions around health, wealth, HR, finance and consumer experience. Are you interested in helping us shape the future of work and life for organizations, people and their families? If so, you've come to the right place. Help us reimagine how people and organizations thrive! Our story starts with a simple, universal truth: Every business is a people business. We are Alight Solutions. Reimagining how people and organizations thrive. @AlightSolutions

Requirements

• 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).

Nice To Haves

• 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

• 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.

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.

What This Job Offers

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