Staff Data Platform Engineer

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🌽 Illinois – Remote

🌽 Illinois – Remote

💵 $185k - $235k / year

⏰ Full Time

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🚰 Data Engineer

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💰 $22.5M Post-IPO Secondary - Alight Solutions on 2023-08

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Alight Solutions is a leading benefits administration provider that delivers health, wealth, leave, and related HR point solutions for large organizations and their employees. The company helps manage benefits administration and human capital-related processes for enterprises, serving many of the world’s largest organizations and over 30 million people. Alight also emphasizes product and technology roles, corporate sustainability, total rewards, and a focus on transforming lives and organizations by maximizing health, financial and work wellbeing.

📋 Description

• Own the technical design, architecture and implementation of the Data Engine’s ingestion, transformation and orchestration infrastructure • Increase Data Engine integration capacity while reducing manual engineering and operational effort • Design extensible data models, transformation frameworks and configuration-driven abstractions for heterogeneous client and source data • Build developer tooling and reusable platform capabilities for developing, deploying, monitoring and maintaining data integrations • Design scalable orchestration and execution patterns supporting 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 with product delivery and client rollout needs • Deliver scalable configuration-driven integration frameworks, reusable data models, transformation libraries and orchestration patterns • Establish platform standards, documentation, reference implementations and adoption guidance

🎯 Requirements

• 8+ years of data platform, data engineering or software engineering experience with production-grade data systems • Deep knowledge of data modeling, SQL, transformation frameworks, orchestration and data quality • Extensive Python engineering skills and experience creating extensible frameworks, reusable abstractions and developer tooling • Demonstrated experience designing and scaling data platforms, including orchestration, pipeline execution, and infrastructure supporting large numbers of independently managed workloads • Demonstrated experience designing configuration-driven systems that generalize complex processing requirements • Experience supporting production applications and operational workflows beyond purely analytics or reporting workloads, with strong requirements for reliability, availability and observability • Demonstrated ability to independently establish technical direction and drive platform architecture and integrated delivery across Product and Engineering teams • Demonstrated fluency with approved agentic coding practices • Hands-on experience with Dagster or comparable modern data orchestration platforms preferred • Healthcare or benefits data experience preferred • Experience optimizing cloud infrastructure, platform cost and operational support models, particularly within AWS, preferred • Must have work authorization in the United States that does not now or in the future require visa sponsorship • Successful completion of a background check is required if an offer is made

🏖️ Benefits

• Health, dental and vision coverages starting Day One • Wellbeing programs • Retirement plans with contribution matching • Generous time off • Parental leave • Continuing education • Career growth opportunities • Flexible working arrangements wherever possible • Occasional travel to physical office locations may be required • Comprehensive benefits package • Competitive total rewards package • Continuing education and training

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