Architect

Job Description

Our story

At Alight we believe a companys 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.

Its why were 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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AI / ML Architect (Hands-On Individual Contributor)

Experience

8-10 years total experience with 5 years in AI / ML systems and strong hands-on coding skills.

Role Summary

We are looking for a hands-on AI / ML Architect who will work as an Individual Contributor designing building and deploying scalable AI / ML solutions. This role is NOT people-management focused you will actively write production grade code build models architect ML platforms and collaborate closely with cross functional engineering product and domain teams.

What Youll Do:

We are currently seeking an experienced AI Architect who will collaborate closely with cross-functional teams to develop and deploy AI-powered features and tools that optimize employee experiences and drive business outcomes.

• As an AI/ML Arch you will be responsible for designing developing and deploying machine learning models and AI applications that solve complex business problems.

• Expert in Designing and developing search and chat applications that utilize Agentic AI.

• Design and develop AI paved paths for the Alight engineering organization.

• Experiment to evaluate application performance including designing experiments to evaluate the performance of machine learning models and then analyze and interpret the results to improve model performance.

• Stay up to date with new tools and technologies and evaluating their potential impact on the business.

• Work with stakeholders to develop and tune algorithms to address business needs. You should be able to effectively communicate your ideas in non-technical terms to help educate business partners

• Evaluate finetune and deploy LLMs and foundation models; implement RAG guardrails and prompt engineering best practices (conversant with Github Copilot).

• Conversant with LLM security practices Secure model deployment Input validation Data verification (guardrails) etc.

• Write production quality Python code for:

  • Feature Engineering

  • Model evaluation

  • Interface services (APIs)

• Conversant with Spring AI building MCPs tools pre-plugin and post-plugin etc.

• Build high performant Ingestion pipelines.

• Expertise across cloud (AWS) data engineering ML/GenAI and data ingestion techniques

• Work with CI/CD pipelines (Github Actions Gitlab Jenkins)

• Mentor engineers on ML best practices (without direct people management)

• Collaborate on a high-performing agile team with a global presence

What Youll Need:

• Overall 8 -10 years of experience into Data Engineering Ingestion AI ML / Gen AI related projects.

• Specifically AI / Gen AI / ML project(s) with 5 years of experience

• Masters degree with preferred concentrations in Computer Science Data Science Math Actuarial Science Engineering or related field.

• Experience writing in Python or Spark (ScalaSpark or PySpark) and with popular machine learning libraries such as TensorFlow Keras PyTorch and conversant with JAVA (Spring AI)

• Conversant with Spring boot services

• AI/ML architects should have experience with data preparation and data engineering tasks such as data cleaning feature engineering and data transformation

• Knowledge of deep learning architectures and techniques such as convolutional neural networks (CNNs) recurrent neural networks (RNNs) and reinforcement learning.

• Familiarity with AWS data and data science tools including SageMaker Glue Lambdas etc.

• Experience in Agile and DevOps development process

• Must be able to clearly communicate complex technical concepts to a non-technical audience

Benefits

We offer programs and plans for a healthy mind body wallet and life because its 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 Alights 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.

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

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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 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 managements 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 managements 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.