IT Governance Engineer - Virtual

IT Governance Engineer - Virtual

Alight Solutions is looking for an experienced AI Governance Engineer to design, build, and automate the technical controls and processes that underpin our enterprise AI Governance program. This role serves as a key security architect for AI systems, ensuring robust cybersecurity, risk management, and compliance across all AI initiatives. You will collaborate closely with cybersecurity, privacy, and legal teams to safeguard AI assets and data, and to ensure responsible, safe, and compliant use of AI throughout the organization.

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.”

• Technical Governance Architecture:
  Design and implement automated inventory collection, monitoring, and risk scoring for all AI systems, models, and tools.
• Security Integration:
  Architect and enforce security controls for AI systems, including access management, data protection, vulnerability scanning, and incident response protocols.
• Workflow Integration:
  Build and integrate governance controls, approval of workflows, and checkpoints into SDLC, and engineering pipelines.
• Automation & Tooling:
  Develop tools for auditing, scanning, and evaluating AI models (e.g., for toxicity, drift, hallucinations). Implement model documentation standards (model cards, evaluation pipelines).
• Cyber
  
  Risk Management:
  
  Conduct risk assessments for AI systems, identify potential threats, and implement mitigation strategies. Collaborate with cybersecurity teams to ensure AI systems comply with organizational and regulatory security standards.
• Compliance & Oversight:
  Support evidence collection for audits (SOC2, ISO, internal/external regulators). Ensure technical controls meet regulatory and policy requirements.
• Collaboration:
  
  Work closely with Security, Privacy, Legal, Data Governance, and Engineering teams to embed governance and security into product and platform development.
• Continuous Improvement:
  Monitor emerging risks, regulatory changes, and industry best practices. Enhance automation, controls, and technical documentation as needed.
• Enablement:
  Support training and enablement initiatives by building toolkits and technical resources for engineers and business users.

• 5+ years in Dev Ops, MLOps, platform engineering, backend development, or cybersecurity, with a focus on automation and controls.
• Strong programming skills (Python preferred), experience with APIs, and automation frameworks.
• Experience integrating governance, risk, or compliance controls into engineering workflows.
• Deep understanding of cybersecurity principles, threat modeling, vulnerability management, and incident response.
• Familiarity with regulatory frameworks (NIST AI RMF, ISO 42001, SOC2, EU AI Act) and AI safety/fairness concepts.
• Experience building tools for model evaluation, monitoring, and documentation.
• Analytical, troubleshooting, and documentation skills.
• Excellent collaboration and communication skills.

• Experience with cloud security, identity and access management, and secure software development practices.
• Understanding of LLM architectures and AI model evaluation (bias, fairness, interpretability, drift, hallucinations).
• Experience with audit, evidence collection, and compliance testing.
• Familiarity with JIRA, CI/CD tools, and cloud platforms.
• Alight requires all virtual interviews to be conducted on video.

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.

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.

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