AWS Cloud & Generative AI Engineering Lead Location: Remote / Hybrid
Experience
Level: Senior / Principal (8+ years) Summary We are seeking a seasoned Cloud engineer to design and build full-stack, cloud-native applications that merge modern AI innovation with scalable, sustainable architecture. This role blends hands-on AWS development and driving enterprise-grade GenAI adoption across diverse products and teams. Key
Responsibilities
• Architect and implement serverless, event-driven cloud applications using AWS services such as Lambda, API Gateway, DynamoDB, Step Functions, and S3. • Lead the design and integration of Generative AI workflows leveraging Amazon Bedrock, RAG pipelines, and knowledge-base-driven context engineering to deliver intelligent, reliable, and extensible AI capabilities. • Develop internal frameworks and reusable modules that enhance developer experience, maintainability, and cloud efficiency. • Collaborate cross-functionally with product, design, and data science teams to bridge business goals with scalable cloud solutions. • Champion accessibility-first design and inclusive engineering practices across products and internal tooling. • Mentor engineers and influence architectural direction aligned with organizational growth and sustainability objectives. Required
Qualifications
• 8+ years of experience in software engineering, cloud architecture, or full-stack application development. • Deep hands-on experience with AWS (e.g., Bedrock, Lambda, Step Functions, Redshift, Glue, ECS/EKS, IAM). • Proficiency in Python, TypeScript/Node.js, or similar languages for serverless development. • Strong grasp of context engineering, prompt orchestration, and LLM application design. • Proven success leading cross-functional engineering teams to innovate at the intersection of technology and business. • Commitment to accessibility and inclusive design principles. •
Experience
integrating agent-based architectures and retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) on AWS. • Understanding of application-level security, compliance, and cost optimization best practices in the cloud. • Background in developing internal developer platforms, pipelines, or observability frameworks. • Prior contributions to AI/ML product teams or open-source cloud frameworks. 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. . About Alight Solutions Alight is a leading benefits administration provider of health, wealth, leave and point solutions for many of the world’s largest organizations and over 30 million people. Through the administration of employee benefits, Alight helps clients gain a benefits advantage while building a healthy and financially secure workforce by unifying the benefits ecosystem across health, wealth, wellbeing, absence management and navigation. Our Alight Worklife® platform empowers employers to gain a deeper understanding of their workforce and engage them throughout life’s most important moments with personalized benefits management and data-driven insights, leading to increased employee wellbeing, engagement and productivity. Learn more at alight.com. Our values are the essence of who we are: Agility. Move with purpose. Learn fast. Adapt quickly. Leadership. Lead by example. Own the outcome. Serve others. Integrity. Do the right thing - even when it is difficult or unseen. Growth Mindset Stay curious. Keep learning. Never stop improving. High-Quality. Do it thoughtfully. Do it completely. Do it well. Trust. Trust is earned through consistency, authenticity, and credibility. Our Colleague
Experience
At Alight Solutions, we are reimagining how people and organizations thrive. To deliver on this purpose, we do things differently. From company leaders to our newest colleagues, we all play a role in bringing our values to life. Every colleague shapes how Alight can become better, stronger and brighter – together. With technology as our catalyst and humanity at our core, we advance each day toward a better future in work and life. We understand the powerful human connections that create success for organizations. We bring an industry leader's expertise and a true partner's commitment to our benefits and administration solutions around health, wealth, HR, finance and consumer experience. Are you interested in helping us shape the future of work and life for organizations, people and their families? If so, you've come to the right place. Help us reimagine how people and organizations thrive! Our story starts with a simple, universal truth: Every business is a people business. We are Alight Solutions. Reimagining how people and organizations thrive. @AlightSolutions