
Senior Application Architect
1 day ago
Senior Architect
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.
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Role Summary:
We are seeking a Senior Application Architect (Sr. Manager level) to lead the design, development, and optimization of applications. This role focuses on designing scalable, reusable, and integrated solutions across the Leave product portfolio.
The ideal candidate will translate business vision into coherent system architectures, ensuring high-quality, consistent, and strategic alignment across platforms.
This role is expected to manage a team of architects and requires people management and governance skills.
Key Responsibilities:
Enterprise Solution Architecture & Design
- Provide solution designs for complex systems and platforms, ensuring consistency, reusability, stability, and enterprise-wide integration.
- Define and drive the application architecture strategy, ensuring alignment with business and IT objectives.
- Turn forward-looking visions into coherent system architecture specifications that scale with business needs.
- Lead the design of innovative solutions throughout the project lifecycle, ensuring adherence to governance models.
- Act as design authority, ensuring all architecture activities and deliverables (both in-house and outsourced) meet high-quality standards and align with enterprise policies and strategies.
- Develop strategies, provide technical recommendations, and drive key architecture decisions throughout the organization.
- Create and maintain architectural products and deliverables that cater to both enterprise and operational business needs.
- Design and/or develop critical reference architecture materials to ensure consistency across enterprise applications.
Technology Leadership & Development
- Familiarity with traditional and modern system architectures, including three-tier, web services, microservices, event-driven, and serverless architectures.
- Experience with continuous integration/continuous deployment (CI/CD) tools and methodologies, with hands-on experience in Terraform, Bitbucket, Jenkins, Artifactory, and cloud-based deployment strategies.
- Develop secure, scalable, and high-performance applications, ensuring compliance with security standards, regulatory requirements, and best practices.
- Drive automation, DevSecOps practices, and cloud-native adoption to improve efficiency and reliability.
Collaboration, Governance & Risk Management
- Support technology teams by proactively identifying and managing risks, escalating through appropriate channels, and tracking risk closure.
- Work with business users and stakeholders to define project scope and ensure flexible designs that accommodate future enhancements.
- Act as an advisor and mentor to development teams, providing guidance on best practices, architectural patterns, and emerging technologies.
- Share best practices and third-party solution alternatives as part of functional solution design discussions, ensuring application solutions fit within the enterprise context.
- Collaborate with security, cloud, and data architects to ensure cohesive and well-integrated application designs.
Delivery & Execution
- Drive technology strategy and modernization roadmaps.
- Lead design reviews, code reviews, and architectural assessments to ensure adherence to standards and best practices.
- Work with engineering teams to troubleshoot complex application issues and provide technical solutions.
- Ensure solutions are built with scalability, performance, and maintainability in mind.
- Drive a culture of automation, continuous improvement, and agile delivery.
Required Skills & Experience:
Technical Expertise
- Solution Architecture & Design: Expertise in designing scalable, reusable, and integrated enterprise applications.
- Cloud Technologies: Hands-on experience with AWS, Azure, or GCP, including Lambda, Kubernetes, API Gateway, and containerization (Docker, Kubernetes, ECS, EKS).
- Enterprise Integration: Strong experience in RESTful APIs, GraphQL, event streaming (Kafka), and messaging queues (RabbitMQ, SQS, etc.).
- Security & Compliance: Expertise in OAuth, JWT, SSO, encryption, and secure coding practices.
- DevSecOps & CI/CD: Hands-on experience with Terraform, Bitbucket, Jenkins, Artifactory, and other automation tools.
Soft Skills & Leadership
- Strong system design, problem-solving and analytical skills, with the ability to exercise sound judgment.
- Experience leading architecture teams and driving technical strategy.
- Ability to communicate complex technical concepts in a clear, approachable manner for diverse audiences.
- Stakeholder management expertise, with the ability to influence technical and business leaders.
- Ability to manage multiple priorities in a fast-paced environment and work effectively in a matrix organization.
Preferred Qualifications:
- BE, B Tech, MCA in computer science or related stream
- Advanced technical certifications such as AWS/Azure Solutions Architect, TOGAF/ Zachman, or Microsoft Certified Architect.
- Experience working in a SAFe Agile environment, with Agile certifications preferred.
- Proven experience in building and deploying production-grade applications in AWS/Azure/GCP.
Alight requires all virtual interviews to be conducted on video.
Flexible Working
So that you can be your best at work and home, we consider flexible working arrangements wherever possible. Alight has been a leader in the flexible workspace and "Top 100 Company for Remote Jobs" 5 years in a row.
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.
By applying for a position with Alight, you understand that, should you be made an offer, it will be contingent on your undergoing and successfully completing a background check consistent with Alight's employment policies. Background checks may include some or all the following based on the nature of the position: SSN/SIN validation, education verification, employment verification, and criminal check, search against global sanctions and government watch lists, credit check, and/or drug test. You will be notified during the hiring process which checks are required by the position.
Our commitment to Inclusion
We celebrate differences and believe in fostering an environment where everyone feels valued, respected, and supported. We know that diverse teams are stronger, more innovative, and more successful.
At Alight, we welcome and embrace all individuals, regardless of their background, and are dedicated to creating a culture that enables every employee to thrive. Join us in building a brighter, more inclusive future.
Authorization to work in the Employing Country
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.
Note, this job description does not restrict management's right to assign or reassign duties and responsibilities of this job to other entities; including but not limited to subsidiaries, partners, or purchasers of Alight business units.
We offer you a competitive total rewards package, continuing education & training, and tremendous potential with a growing worldwide organization.
DISCLAIMER:
Nothing in this job description restricts management's right to assign or reassign duties and responsibilities of this job to other entities; including but not limited to subsidiaries, partners, or purchasers of Alight business units.
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