Remote VP of AI Engineering — Scale & Platform

Alight Solutions Ltd; United States; Remote; USD 265,000 - 290,000; Full time

Job summary

Alight Solutions Ltd is seeking a Vice President of Artificial Intelligence to lead how we build, deploy, and scale AI across our products, services, and operations, using agentic AI to help participants act on their benefits.

The role inherits an active AI foundation and aims to mature it into a coherent enterprise capability, reporting to the senior data/AI transformation leader with broad collaboration across product, technology, operations, risk and compliance.

Responsibilities

• Make explicit choices about where Alight builds, partners, buys, and stops investing
• Concentrate investment where it delivers the most value, governing for cost per outcome as the platform matures
• Mature the reference architecture into the operating standard, so speed, reuse, and compliance are inherited by default
• Shape an operating model that balances enterprise standards with speed and ownership
• Agentic foundations, orchestration, retrieval and knowledge access, and model selection
• Evaluation, observability, and integration with enterprise data and services
• The AI Development Lifecycle (AIDLC), the paved path that builds in standards, tests, and security from the start, taking project setup from days to minutes and passing quality gates on the first pull request
• Move from answering questions to taking action on a participant’s behalf, with the right human oversight
• Own the full outcome, from shipping through adoption, reliability, and experience
• Hold teams to measurable value in production, at enterprise-grade reliability
• Advance automation from rules-based, to AI-assisted, to agentic
• Move beyond scripts and isolated tools toward adaptive workflows that connect knowledge, decisions, and action
• Industrialize automation at volume while preserving appropriate human oversight
• Build responsible AI into how solutions are designed, evaluated, released, monitored, and improved. Partner with risk, security, privacy, legal, and compliance leaders to create controls rigorous enough for a high-trust environment and practical enough to support speed.
• Recruit, develop, and lead a world‑class AI organization spanning platform engineering, applied AI, product delivery, intelligent automation, quality and evaluation, and responsible AI.
• Serve as a credible and compelling voice on AI with clients, partners, executive leaders, and the broader market.

Job description

Alight Solutions Ltd is seeking a Vice President of Artificial Intelligence to lead how we build, deploy, and scale AI across our products, services, and operations, using agentic AI to help participants act on their benefits.

The role inherits an active AI foundation and aims to mature it into a coherent enterprise capability, reporting to the senior data/AI transformation leader with broad collaboration across product, technology, operations, risk and compliance.