Director, Health Navigation Solutions Technology - Virtual

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At Alight, we believe a company’s success starts with its people. Alight embraces values that come directly from our people – purposeful, human, united and growth-minded – reflecting our inclusive culture and promise that our clients expect. We are passionate about connecting purpose with impact. Alight empowers clients to build a healthier and more financially secure workforce by unifying the benefits ecosystem across health, wealth, wellbeing, navigation, and absence management.

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Role Overview

The Director, Health Navigation Solutions Technology & Engineering is accountable for the technology strategy, engineering delivery, modernization, and reliability of Alight’s Health Navigation solutions. This leader translates product and business priorities into scalable, secure solutions that improve participant, client, and operational outcomes.

Working across Product, Operations, Delivery, Data and AI, and enterprise technology teams, the Director balances near‑term delivery and stability with long‑term modernization, simplification, and innovation.

Purpose and Strategic Outcomes

• Develop and execute the Health Navigation technology roadmap, aligned with product strategy, client commitments, and enterprise priorities.

• Evolve Health Navigation toward scalable, secure, composable, and reusable platform capabilities while reducing complexity and technical debt.

• Accelerate product delivery, engineering productivity, and operational efficiency through modern engineering practices, automation, and responsible AI adoption.

• Deliver reliable, resilient, and cost‑effective solutions that improve participant and client outcomes.

• Own end‑to‑end engineering execution for Health Navigation, including architecture, application engineering, integrations, and platform support.

• Translate product and business strategy into a sequenced, measurable technology roadmap.

• Ensure solutions are scalable, resilient, extensible, secure, and supportable.

• Drive modernization, simplification, standardization, and reuse through shared services, APIs, components, and enterprise platforms.

• Establish engineering, architecture, quality, Dev Sec Ops , observability, and documentation standards.

• Partner with Product, Delivery, and Operations to translate roadmaps into scalable, configurable, and operable solutions.

• Collaborate with Data and AI leaders to embed data, analytics, AI, and GenAI into participant journeys and business processes.

• Use AI and automation to improve participant experience, operational efficiency, decision support, and engineering productivity.

• Promote responsible AI‑assisted development, testing, support, and operational practices aligned with security, privacy, risk, and governance standards.