Senior Data 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.

Learn more at careers.alight.com.

About the Role – Senior Data Architect

As a Senior Data Architect on our Global Data & Advanced Analytics team, you will be the visionary and designer of our data ecosystem. You’ll leverage your expertise in AWS cloud-native technologies and big data platforms to build scalable data solutions that empower advanced analytics and AI-driven products. This is a senior role for a hands-on leader who can both strategize at the enterprise level and dive into technical design. You will collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure our data architecture is robust, secure, and aligned with business needs, enabling Alight’s mission to provide insightful, real-time solutions in health, wealth, and human capital.

• Responsibilities : Design and Strategy : Define data architecture blueprint for products, including data flow diagrams, system integrations, and storage solutions. Refine architecture to meet evolving business requirements and to incorporate new AWS capabilities and industry best practices. Drive adoption of and adherence to architecture and standards.
• Cloud Data Platform Development : Lead the development of our cloud-based data platform on AWS. Implement data pipelines and warehouses using AWS services (Glue for ETL, Lambda for serverless processing, Redshift for data warehousing, S3 for data storage). Ensure data is extracted, transformed, and loaded to support AI, automation, and analytics & reporting needs.
• Big Data & Legacy Integration : Oversee ingestion of large-scale datasets from various sources (transactional systems, APIs, external files). Optimize processing with Spark and integrate legacy Hadoop-based data into the AWS environment.
• Data Modeling : Develop and maintain data models for databases and data lakes. Design relational schemas and dimensional models for operational and analytical workloads. Optimize Redshift schemas with partitioning and appropriate keys.
• Advanced Analytics Enablement : Work with Data Science and Analytics teams to enable AI and advanced analytics. Provide datasets and pipelines for machine learning models. Implement real-time streaming data handling (using Kinesis or Kafka if needed) and ensure data quality and freshness for AI use cases.
• Efficiency and Scalability : Design scalable data handling processes. Optimize ETL jobs (monitoring and tuning Glue / Spark). Implement incremental data loading strategies and CI / CD for data pipelines.
• Data Governance & Security : Embed data governance with cataloging, lineage tracking, and governance policies. Ensure data privacy and security : access controls, encryption, data retention. Coordinate with InfoSec for audits and support data masking or tokenization for sensitive information.
• Collaboration and Leadership : Collaborate with technology leaders, product managers, business analysts, and engineering leads. Provide technical leadership to data engineers, set development standards, conduct design / code reviews, and lead architecture review sessions.
• Innovation and Thought Leadership : Stay current with data architecture, big data, and AI trends. Evaluate new technologies and pilot proof-of-concepts for new ideas.

Required Qualifications

Alight requires all virtual interviews to be conducted on video.

Alight has been a leader in 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 with various health coverage options, wellbeing programs, retirement, vacation and sick leave, parental leave, continuing education and training, and voluntary benefits.

By applying for a position with Alight, you understand that any offer is contingent on a background check in line with Alight’s policies. Checks may include SSN / SIN validation, education and employment verification, criminal checks, sanctions lists, credit checks, and drug tests as applicable. You will be notified which checks are required during the process.

Our commitment to Inclusion

We celebrate differences and foster an environment where everyone feels valued, respected, and supported. We welcome all individuals and are dedicated to a culture where every employee can thrive. If reasonable accommodation is needed during hiring, please contact alightcareers at alight dot com.

Equal Opportunity Policy Statement

Alight is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer and does not discriminate based on sex, race, color, religion, creed, national origin, age, disability, medical condition, pregnancy, marital status, citizenship, veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other legally protected characteristic. We also take affirmative action to employ disabled persons and other protected veterans. Reasonable accommodations are available during the hiring process.

Authorization to work in the Employing Country

Applicants must have work authorization that does not require visa sponsorship for the Employing Country.

Note : This job description does not restrict management’s right to assign duties to other entities, including subsidiaries or partners. We offer a competitive total rewards package and opportunities for growth within a global organization.

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