Engineering Manager - Virtual

Our Story

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.


It’s why we’re so driven to connect passion with purpose. 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.

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.

**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.**

About the Role

The Director of Engineering is influential in making priority trade-off decisions, driving engineering excellence and developing high performing teams.

Responsibilities

• Providing vision and leadership to global sprint teams supporting our Worklife Platform.
• Leading the application development team and develop plans that maximize return on investment for the company.
• Leading teams managing all aspects of application development across multiple functions, business units and business lines.
• Initiating, planning, scheduling, controlling, and bring to closure multiple high priority projects.
• Developing and leading a Agile software development approach that improves velocity, while maintaining a focus on both quality and scalability.
• Fostering a customer service mind-set throughout the application development team, while championing thought leadership and partnership with the business.
• Seeking out, validating, and bringing the technology organization innovative best practices emphasizing application development.
• Ensuring application development initiatives are well managed and delivered to meet expectations on functionality, timeliness, and cost.
• Preparing software development status reports for management, client and other stakeholders.
• Assuring lowest possible cost of ownership of applications through vendor negotiations and benchmarking.

Requirements

• Work experience as a director …