IT Application Architect

Application Services Regular Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India Posted on:08/08/2025 Job ID:R-34096

**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.

Alight is seeking a skilled and passionate Engineering Manager with a strong customer focus, ability to solve complex business problems, attention to detail and highly collaborative communication skills. Engineering Manager will lead a team of talented developers to deliver a high-quality customer facing progressive web app that can run at scale. We are looking for a hands-on technical leader who embrace new technologies with cutting edge development practices, Continuous Integration, continuous delivery.

Qualifications:
Role Expectations:

- A great mentor that is responsible for leading a team, and responsible for the quality of its deliverables
- Creating buy-in for the strategy, setting priorities and communicating across business partners and stakeholders
- Defining a world-class customer/delivery experience for our customers
- Responsible for defining the project processes and best practices and ensure compliance to the processes defined to ensure quality delivery at the right time
- Provide management, administrative/technical support to project team and ensure program deliverables are met timely and efficiently
- Responsible for interacting with the Business Users to understand the requirements and identify the relevant epics and stories in collaboration with Business Analysts
- Participate in technical discussions with Tech Lead, Architect and QA to ensure adequate level of details are captured
- Attend program/project-related status meetings to share relevant updates with Project Stake Holders and analyse variations and take corrective actions for the observed variations
- To provide / recommend solutions to existing / new Customers by understanding their business requirements
- To design and validate the specs for new products / modules based on customer specifications
- To provide timely support & bug resolution under AMC and management of new CR(s) /enhancements
- Agile project planning activities with the team to define, estimate and plan tasks and then taking ownership to deliver
- Maintains high standards of software quality within the team by establishing good practices and habits.
- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills
- Strong work ethics, flexibility, proven attention to details and quality
- Highly motivated and willing to work in a rapidly evolving environment
- Other Skills Business Process Understanding, Analytical & Problem Solving, Interpersonal
- Work closely with all product development squads to ensure that architectural standards and best practices are being followed consistently across all teams.

Responsibility Areas:

- Team Leadership: Provide guidance, mentorship, and support to engineers working with MERN technologies.
- Project Management: Oversee project timelines, resource allocation, and task prioritization to ensure successful project delivery.
- Technical Oversight: Review code, architecture decisions and ensure adherence to best practices within the tech stack.
- Technical Desing: Experience leading functional design and architecture discussions, with an understanding of process flows and system diagrams to support design decisions.
- Collaboration: Foster collaboration between cross-functional teams, including developers, designers and product managers.
- Performance Management: Conduct performance evaluations, set goals and provide constructive feedback to team members.
- Stakeholder Communication: Communicate project updates, challenges and progress to stakeholders, including top management.
- Continuous Improvement: Identify opportunities for process improvements, innovations and knowledge sharing within the team.
- Risk Management: Identify and mitigate technical risks that may impact project delivery or product quality.
- Stay Updated: Keep abreast of the latest developments in technologies and industry trends to e