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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.”
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.
**US Citizenship requirements- as this role supports services provided to the federal government and/or a federal government contractor, proof will be required to verify US citizenship status at time of hire.**
It’s why we’re so driven to connect passion with purpose. Our team’s expertise in human insights and cloud technology gives companies and employees around the world the ability to power confident decisions, for life.
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.
Learn more at careers.alight.com.
As a Cloud Architect, you’ll be responsible for establishing and contributing to our strategic public cloud direction for Alight as well as providing support to product owners to deploy solutions into our public clouds. You will need to apply technical expertise across multiple disciplines to understand clients’ technical drivers and consult on the best approach to achieve them while aligning to our public cloud strategies in key areas of operations, financial management, security, and automation. The ideal candidate works in a strategic manor and possesses the know-how to solve major technical challenges; provides thought leadership for technical innovation; and can drive efficiency within Alight.
The requirements
You will need to have knowledge and experience in many of the following areas:
- Ability to think strategically and relate architectural decisions/recommendations to business needs.
- Deep understanding of cloud solution architecture in one or more major cloud service providers, with a strong focus on AWS and Azure.
- In-depth experience with some or all these cloud concepts: Infrastructure as a Service, Serverless Architecture, Container Architecture, Platform as a Service, Storage, Infrastructure as Code, Identity and Access Management.
- Working knowledge of automation and deployment tool e.g., Terraform and Ansible
- Proven track record delivering within large-scale IT programs, taking ownership of the architecture and design activities and outputs.
- Experience gaining alignment across business and IT, operating across organizational and technology teams to drive common approaches, delivering sustainable, agile, and re-usable solutions.
- Comfortable presenting complex, technical topics in an actionable manner to senior leadership.
- Worked in one or more of the following sectors: Human Resources; Utilities, Banking, Consumer Goods, Tech and Media, Public Sector, Health, Transport.
Project responsibilities
Define a cloud strategy to improve quality and speed of product deployments while aligning to our Alight polices and financial budgets.
- Build and maintain reference architectures that align with our cloud strategy with a focus on operations, financial management, security, and automation.
- Lead cloud/solution architecture stream of product deployments
- Lead requirements gathering activities to fully understand both functional and non-functional requirements for any given project.
- Drive a fit for purpose architecture and design aligned with wider architectural principles, policies, and design.
- Manage design milestones and ensure effective design governance around key design decisions.
- Build strong internal relationships within Advisory and across other services
People & Team responsibilities
- Continuously grow public cloud service knowledge
- Develop people through effectively coaching, and mentoring all levels of staff.
- Contribute to people initiatives including recruiting, retaining, and training Architecture professionals.
- Maintain an educational program to continually develop personal skills.
- Understand, follow, and role model workplace policies and procedures
Basic Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree or higher in computer science, engineering, or a related discipline
- 6 years’ experience as a software development, operations, data, or security engineer/architect
- Experience with project/goal management and tracking
- Ability to coordinate and work with diverse groups of subject matter experts.
- Self-starter, with a personal standard 'high bar' of performance excellence
Preferred Qualifications
- Accreditation and practitioner experience of TOGAF; IAF; IT4IT or similar frameworks
- Passion for creating innovative solutions for consumers.
- Experience delivering enterprise products and services in a high growth environment.
- Experience working with diverse groups of people to manage and influence change.
- Experience coordinating complex product development cycles including hardware and software development schedules.
- Understanding of Product Management best practices and proven track record in working with cross-functional, no dedicated teams
- Broad technical breadth and depth including familiarity with web services, enterprise management tools and back-end application infrastructure.
- Strong technical acumen and understanding of emerging disruptive technologies, like cloud computing, open-source software, or software as a service.
- Superior oral and written communication skills
- Strong customer focus, ownership, urgency, and drive
- 8+ years in the technology industry in a technical, product management
- 3+ years’ experience hands-on with 1 or more public cloud provider
- Strong presentation skills and the ability to articulate complex concepts to cross functional audiences, with the ability to dive-deep on technical and architectural details with customers.
- Experience writing code, committing to open-source projects, understanding of the community mechanisms of open-source projects.
Flexible Working
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.
Benefits
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 a number of 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 Alight’s 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 Diversity and Inclusion
Alight is committed to diversity, equity, and 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.
Diversity 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. In addition, we take affirmative action to employ and advance in the employment of qualified minorities, women, 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 his/her 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 management's 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.
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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 management's 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.
