Director, Application Engineering

Your Future Evolves Here

Evolent Health has a bold mission to change the health of the nation by changing the way health care is delivered. Our pursuit of this mission is the driving force that brings us to work each day. We believe in embracing new ideas, challenging ourselves and failing forward. We respect and celebrate individual talents and team wins. We have fun while working hard and Evolenteers often make a difference working in everything from scrubs to jeans.

Are we growing? Absolutely and Globally. In 2021 we grew our teams by almost 50% and continue to grow even more in 2022. Are we recognized as a company you are supported by for your career and growth, and a great place to work? Definitely. Evolent Health International (Pune, India) has been certified as “Great Places to Work” in 2021. In 2020 and 2021 Evolent in the U.S. was both named Best Company for Women to Advance list by Parity.org and earned a perfect score on the Human Rights Campaign (HRC) Foundation’s Corporate Equality Index (CEI). This index is the nation's foremost benchmarking survey and report measuring corporate policies and practices related to LGBTQ+ workplace equality.

We recognize employees that live our values, give back to our communities each year, and are champions for bringing our whole selves to work each day. If you’re looking for a place where your work can be personally and professionally rewarding, don’t just join a company with a mission. Join a mission with a company behind it.

What You’ll Be Doing:

Position Overview

Evolent partners with health plans and providers to deliver better outcomes for people with complex health conditions. We are seeking an experienced Director, Application Engineering to lead and manage a Scrum team in Pune, India responsible for building scalable, reliable, and high-quality business critical applications. This role requires a strong engineering leader who can balance people leadership, technical direction, Agile delivery, and stakeholder partnership to drive predictable execution and meaningful business impact.

What You’ll Do

In this role, you will:

Lead engineering delivery and team performance

• Lead and manage a Pune-based Scrum team of software engineers and QA professionals responsible for designing, developing, testing, and supporting scalable web applications
• Own end-to-end engineering delivery for product initiatives in close partnership with Product Management, Architecture, DevOps, QA, and business stakeholders
• Drive predictable sprint and release execution while ensuring engineering outcomes meet expectations for quality, scalability, performance, security, and reliability
• Build a culture of ownership, accountability, continuous improvement, collaboration, and technical excellence within the team

Provide people leadership, coaching, and operational oversight

• Oversee day-to-day engineering execution, resource planning, delivery commitments, and operational priorities for the Scrum team
• Conduct performance reviews, provide timely feedback, and support career development for engineers and QA team members
• Coach and mentor team members across technical decision-making, delivery discipline, problem solving, and leadership behaviors
• Promote strong engineering discipline, including coding standards, design reviews, test automation, production readiness, and supportability practices

Drive technical leadership and solution quality

• Provide technical leadership for business-critical application design, development, integration, testing, deployment, monitoring, and ongoing support
• Guide the team in analyzing complex technical problems and delivering scalable, resilient, secure, and high-performing solutions
• Identify opportunities to modernize architecture, improve maintainability, reduce technical debt, and strengthen application reliability

Partner across product and business teams

• Partner with Product Owners, business stakeholders, and technology leaders to translate product priorities into clear, scalable engineering solutions
• Support backlog refinement, prioritization, dependency management, sprint planning, release planning, and delivery forecasting
• Provide engineering guidance, solution input, risk assessment, and effort estimates throughout the software development lifecycle

Advance agile execution and delivery excellence

• Lead and reinforce effective Agile/Scrum practices, including sprint planning, daily standups, reviews, retrospectives, and delivery follow-through
• Remove impediments, improve team operating rhythms, and use metrics to increase delivery predictability, quality, and team effectiveness

Qualifications

Required:

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Engineering, or a related field
• 12–15 years of experience in software engineering, including progressive leadership responsibility managing engineers and delivery teams
• Demonstrated experience leading Scrum teams and delivering enterprise-scale software solutions in Agile environments
• Strong technical background in modern web application development, including Microsoft .NET, C#, ASP.NET MVC/Web API, JavaScript frameworks, and SQL Server or comparable relational databases
• Experience with DevOps practices, CI/CD pipelines, automated testing, observability, and production support practices
• Experience with cloud platforms and services, preferably Microsoft Azure, including Functions, Service Bus, Queues, monitoring, and application integration capabilities
• Proven ability to collaborate with distributed teams across India and the United States, with strong communication and stakeholder management skills

Preferred:

• Experience in healthcare technology or a related regulated industry
• Experience with microservices, distributed systems, and modern application architecture patterns

At Evolent, we are committed to improving health outcomes for people with complex conditions. We look for engineering leaders who thrive in a collaborative environment, bring a strong sense of purpose to their work, and are energized by the opportunity to build reliable, scalable technology solutions that make a meaningful impact.

What Will Help You Succeed

• Strong ownership mindset with the ability to operate independently, make sound decisions, and drive outcomes through ambiguity
• Passion for mentoring, coaching, and developing high-performing engineering teams
• Commitment to engineering excellence, continuous learning, innovation, and practical modernization
• Ability to collaborate effectively across product, engineering, operations, and business teams while modeling Evolent values in day-to-day work

To ensure a secure hiring process we have implemented several identity verification steps, including submission of a government issued photo ID. We conduct identity verification during interviews, and final interviews may require onsite attendance. All candidates must complete a comprehensive background check, in-person I-9 verification, and may be subject to drug screening prior to employment. The use of artificial intelligence tools during interviews is prohibited and monitored. Misrepresentation will result in immediate disqualification from consideration.

Mandatory Requirements:

Employees must have a high-speed broadband internet connection with a minimum speed of 50 Mbps and the ability to set up a wired connection to their home network to ensure effective remote work. These requirements may be updated as needed by the business.

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Evolent Health is an equal opportunity employer and considers all qualified applicants equally without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, veteran status, or disability status.