Enterprise Architect Leader - Virtual

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. 

The Enterprise Architect Leader will collaborate with the IT team to drive IT-focused strategy. This individual will work with IT and business stakeholders to align key technology strategies and approaches with core business priorities. They will lead IT governance, establish technology standards, and oversee the ongoing transformation of IT systems to reduce complexity, decrease costs, and enhance the effectiveness of IT systems. They will collaborate with multiple IT departments to align expectations around non-functional standards (Security, Scalability, Performance, etc.) and ensure these standards are incorporated into all global technology work products.

Job Responsibilities

Vision and Strategy:

• Establish, evangelize and maintain a technology vision for Alight’s solutions and services.
• Develop and maintain our architecture principles, paved paths and reference architectures based on our overarching organizational goals & strategy
• Represent Alight technology and application architectures in discussions with clients, third party partners, and vendors on an as-needed basis.

People:

• Management of enterprise architecture staff (10-20) including performance, career, engagement and growth objectives
• Promote EA team cohesion, harmony and focus on goals
• Define and support skills map needed for global technology learning and development goals.
• Plan for, manage, and monitor Enterprise Architecture budget and financial forecast.

Guidance and Governance

• Maintain, Improve and execute our enterprise architecture governance process
• Review and assist where required our teams and line architects in their local architecture strategy and roadmap to ensure they align and are cohesive when they come together
• Maintain our architecture repository at the enterprise level and ensure consolidation & accuracy at the detail level of various team’s architecture artefacts
• Key decision maker on technical architecture, breaking ties and evaluating solutions
• Accountable for technical assurance of in house solutions and the solutions and services from outsourced suppliers and contractors.

Solutions & Design

• Mange the adoption and maintain a backlog of debt & non-compliance across our teams and line architect for the various activities above
• Sponsors efforts to improve Alight’s technology solutions, reducing technical debt, cost and complexity.
• Drive efficient, secure, and innovative solutions using the best-fit infrastructure and applications to support the needs of the organization and our customers.
• Participate with the rest of the team in documenting current and future system state, actively promoting information-sharing generally.
• Evaluate and recommend tools, technologies and processes to ensure the highest quality and most cost-effective product platform.

Innovation & Delivery

• Support large programs of work to identify broad stroke enterprise architecture impact and effort
• Responsible for driving solutions with the business and developing technical strategy to help them attain their goals
• Extensive experience in agile delivery management, resource and capacity management, and utilizing onshore and offshore teams.
• Ability to take strategic oversight of critical projects.
• Manage transitions away from legacy platforms before they become an impediment operationally or financially for the organization.

Job Requirements (Including Education)

• Bachelor’s degree in relevant field (industry experience may be substituted)
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills and have a process improvement-oriented mindset
• Proven track record of identifying, sponsoring, and delivering transformational technology solutions.
• Strong analytical skills: ability to effectively analyze & resolve issues
• Have designed enterprise-level solutions, integrations
• Have experience working with Product Management and/or business stakeholders
• Experience designing cloud and native-cloud architectures
• Have experience with broad based solution design, including data modeling, storage, application design patterns, cloud hosting patterns, and integration patterns
• Ability to multi-task and manage competing priorities
• Strong organizational skills, attention to detail and quality
• Adaptable to feedback and requested changes
• Results-oriented with ability to adapt to a changing environment

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 nclusion

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.

As part of this commitment, Alight will ensure that persons with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodations for the hiring process. If reasonable accommodation is needed, please contact alightcareers@alight.com.

Equal Opportunity Policy Statement

Alight is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer and does not discriminate against anyone based on sex, race, color, religion, creed, national origin, ancestry, age, physical or mental disability, medical condition, pregnancy, marital or domestic partner status, citizenship, military or veteran status, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity or expression, genetic information, or any other legally protected characteristics or conduct covered by federal, state, or local law.   In addition, we take affirmative action to employ, disabled persons, disabled veterans and other covered veterans.

Alight provides reasonable accommodations to the known limitations of otherwise qualified employees and applicants for employment with disabilities and sincerely held religious beliefs, practices and observances, unless doing so would result in undue hardship. Applicants for employment may request a reasonable accommodation/modification by contacting their  recruiter.

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.

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We offer you a competitive total rewards package, continuing education & training, and tremendous potential with a growing worldwide organization.

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Pay Transparency Statement: Alight considers a variety of factors in determining whether to extend an offer of employment and in setting the appropriate compensation level, including, but not limited to, a candidate’s experience, education, certification/credentials, market data, internal equity, and geography. Alight makes these decisions on an individualized, non-discriminatory basis. Bonus and/or incentive eligibility are determined by role and level. Alight also offers a comprehensive benefits package; for specific details on our benefits package, please visit: https://bit.ly/Alight_Benefits

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.