Data Platform Engineer - Virtual

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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With a comprehensive total rewards package, Alight offers programs and plans that support your mind, body, wallet, and life. Benefits include health, dental and vision coverages starting Day One. Additionally, Alight colleagues enjoy wellbeing programs, retirement plans with contribution matching, generous time off, parental leave, continuing education, and career growth opportunities – all within a thriving global organization.

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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” 6 years in a row.

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The infrastructure connecting employers, benefits administrators, insurance carriers, and service providers is extraordinarily complex and consequential to how people access and experience care, yet largely invisible to the millions who depend on it. Alight is investing in making this complexity actionable through its new Benefits Intelligence offering, powered by the Alight Data Engine. The Data Engine is a sophisticated benefits data platform that connects, standardizes, and enables the exchange of information across the fragmented benefits ecosystem.

The next challenge is scale: evolving a platform that already supports hundreds of data integrations to accommodate tens of thousands, without proportionally increasing engineering and operational effort required to support them. We’re seeking a hands‑on Staff Data Platform Engineer to lead this evolution, designing and building the orchestration architecture, extensible data transformation frameworks, and developer tooling that makes new integrations faster to deploy, easier to operate, and more reliable at scale.

You’ll have substantial ownership over the platform’s technical direction and implementation, helping establish the foundation for a new generation of data-driven products and services across Alight.

• Own the technical design, architecture, and implementation of the Data Engine’s ingestion, transformation, and orchestration infrastructure to materially increase Data Engine integration capacity and reduce manual engineering and operational effort.
• Design extensible data models, transformation frameworks and configuration‑driven abstractions for standardizing heterogeneous client and source data.
• Build developer tooling and reusable platform capabilities that enable engineering and operational teams to independently develop, deploy, monitor and maintain data integrations.
• Design scalable orchestration and execution patterns that efficiently support thousands of independently managed data pipelines and workloads.
• Improve platform reliability, observability and operational efficiency through automated validation, recovery, monitoring and infrastructure optimization.
• Partner with Product, Architecture, Software Engineering and Operations to align platform capabilities to…