SVP, Technology - Platforms and Solutions - Virtual

Alight Solutions•Deerfield, IL

1d•$230,000 - $275,000•Remote

About The Position

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.

Requirements

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
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.

Responsibilities

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
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, and 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
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
Build and lead a high-performing organization across platform engineering and 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