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Alight · 1 month ago

Lead Engineer — Agentic AI

Chicago, IL

Full-time

Hybrid

Lead/Staff

$160K/yr - $205K/yr

10+ years exp

Alight is a company that champions people and focuses on improving lives through a unified benefits ecosystem. They are seeking a Lead Engineer to provide technical leadership in the development of agentic AI systems, collaborating with product teams and ensuring high-quality technical outcomes.

Health Care

No H1B

Responsibilities

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

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

Define and evolve service architectures with strong non‑functional qualities (performance, scalability, security)

Collaborate with Architecture on standards, cross‑team integrations, and technology governance

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

Qualification

JavaPythonAWSDevOpsMicroservicesKubernetesCI/CDAgileCuriosityPersistenceCollaboration

Required

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)