[Hiring] SVP, Technology - Platforms and Solutions @Alight Solutions

Role Description

Alight is seeking a senior technology executive to lead client-facing platforms and solutions across the company’s product portfolio—Health, Navigation, Wealth, and Leaves. Reporting to the CTO, this leader is accountable for the end-to-end engineering and evolution of Alight’s core technology platforms and solutions, ensuring they are scalable, secure, modern, and aligned to business strategy.

The role serves as a critical bridge between Product, Engineering, Delivery, and Data/AI leadership, translating business priorities into cohesive platform and solution capabilities.

As a core member of the Technology Leadership Team, this executive will partner closely with:

• Product leadership
• Delivery leadership
• SVP of Strategic Programs
• Data and AI
• VP, Infrastructure, Ops and Architecture

This role operates at enterprise scale, spanning all client-facing products and platforms globally, and owns the technology realization of all product solutions, ensuring consistency in architecture, engineering standards, and platform leverage across product lines.

Qualifications

• 20+ years of technology leadership experience in large-scale, enterprise environments
• Proven experience leading platform engineering and client-facing solutions at scale
• Experience background in modern technology architectures (cloud, APIs, microservices, data platforms, AI/ML)
• Experience owning technology across multiple product lines or domains
• Demonstrated ability to operate in matrixed environments with senior stakeholders
• Track record of driving platform-led transformation and modernization

Requirements

• Establish a cohesive, scalable platform and solution architecture across all product lines
• Drive modernization and simplification of the technology landscape, reducing fragmentation
• Ensure platforms deliver reliable, secure, and cost-efficient client outcomes at enterprise scale
• Act as the senior executive counterpart to transformation leadership, balancing stability with change
• Enable faster product innovation and delivery through reusable platforms and services
• Ensure client-facing solutions are reliable, secure, and differentiated

Core Accountabilities

• Own end-to-end engineering of Alight’s client-facing platforms and solutions across Health, Navigation, Wealth, and Leaves
• Drive standardization and reuse through shared platform capabilities and components
• Ensure platforms are designed for scale, performance, resiliency, and extensibility
• Lead simplification, consolidation, and technical debt reduction initiatives
• Ensure all platforms are secure by design and compliant with enterprise standards
• Define and execute a platform-first strategy, shifting from siloed solutions to reusable, composable enterprise capabilities

Client & Revenue Impact

• Own technology platforms that directly support client delivery, member experience, and revenue growth
• Partner with SVP of Strategic Programs in client engagements involving platform capabilities, roadmap, and innovation
• Ensure technology solutions meet SLAs, performance expectations, and contractual commitments

Leadership & Organizational Impact

• Build and lead a high-performing organization across platform engineering and solution engineering by product line
• Establish clear accountability across platform, product, data, and delivery functions
• Develop senior leadership talent and succession
• Foster a culture of innovation, ownership, engineering excellence, and client focus

Measures of Success

• Platform scalability, performance, and reliability across all client-facing systems
• Speed of product delivery driven by platform reuse and standardization
• Reduction in architecture complexity and technical debt
• Adoption of enterprise architecture standards across teams
• Measurable impact from AI-enabled platform capabilities
• Improved client outcomes, experience, and platform-driven differentiation

Application and Interview

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.

Alight requires all virtual interviews to be conducted on video. Please be aware that Alight is a camera-on culture and may require occasional travel to one of our physical office locations.

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.

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.

Salary Pay Range

• Minimum: 230,000.00 USD
• Maximum: 275,000.00 USD

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.