Application Development Associate Director (Production Support)

Evernorth Health Services; Hyderabad; On-site; INR 3,500,000 - 6,000,000; Full time

Job summary

Evernorth Health Services in Hyderabad, India seeks an App Dev Associate Director for Technical Service Engineering – Prod Support. The role provides unified leadership and governance across Tier 1 and Tier 2 applications to ensure stability, resilience, and continuous improvement in a complex digital ecosystem.

The position drives standardization, ownership, and faster decision-making, coordinating Hyderabad-based FTEs and contractors, and advancing AI-enabled L2 operations to reduce manual

Qualifications

• 18+ years of experience in Application Production Support / IT Operations, with at least 10 years in a leadership role.
• Proven expertise in Major Incident Management, cross-tower escalation, and stakeholder communications.
• Experience managing offshore teams, including FTEs and contractors, at scale.
• Hands-on understanding of ITIL, SRE, and operational excellence practices.

Responsibilities

• Define offshore production support strategy and operating model across UDDS digital platforms.
• Own governance framework, service standards, risk controls, and executive review cadence.
• Set portfolio objectives for availability, resilience, customer experience, regulatory compliance, and SLA attainment.
• Lead cross-platform prioritization and investments balancing risk and impact.
• Represent offshore production support in senior leadership forums and provide accountable visibility.
• Provide executive oversight for L1.5/2/3 incidents and rapid recovery.
• Establish an integrated major incident, problem, and crisis management framework.
• Sponsor reliability reviews and remediation of systemic issues.
• Build and lead a multi-platform production support organization in Hyderabad.
• Define workforce strategy and sourcing mix for 24x7 support at scale.
• Drive AI, automation, observability, and modernization strategy for L2 support.
• Partner with engineering, SRE, architecture, data, cybersecurity to embed reliability.
• Establish value realization measures for incident prevention, MTTR, and cost efficiency.
• Govern responsible AI adoption and risk management in the support organization.

Skills

Leadership

Incident Management

Offshore Teams

ITIL/SRE

Tools

ServiceNow

APM tools

Job description

App Dev Associate Director – (Technical Service Engineering – Prod Support)

Location

Role Summary

The Production Support Associate Directo is responsible for providing unified leadership and operational governance across Tier 1 and Tier 2 applications, ensuring stability, resilience, and continuous improvement across a highly interdependent digital ecosystem.

As the accountable leader, this role drives standardization, ownership, and faster decision‑making, coordinates Hyderabad‑based FTEs and contractors, leads high‑severity incident management, and advances AI‑and automation‑led L2 operations to reduce manual effort and improve operational efficiency at scale.

Key Responsibilities

Operational Leadership & Governance

• Define and execute the offshore production support strategy and target operating model across all UDDS digital platforms, aligned with enterprise technology and business priorities.
• Own the governance framework, decision rights, service standards, risk controls, and executive review cadence for the production support portfolio.
• Set portfolio‑level objectives and performance measures for availability, resilience, customer experience, regulatory compliance, and SLA attainment.
• Lead cross‑platform prioritization and investment decisions, balancing operational risk, business impact, capacity, and modernization needs.
• Represent offshore production support in senior leadership forums and provide transparent accountability for service health, material risks, and transformation outcomes.

Incident & Problem Management

• Provide executive oversight and decision authority for L1.5/2/3 incidents, ensuring timely business impact assessment, escalation, communications, and recovery.
• Establish an integrated major incident, problem, and crisis management framework across application, infrastructure, security, vendor, and business teams.
• Hold platform and support leaders accountable for high‑quality RCA, permanent corrective actions, control effectiveness, and closure of systemic issues.
• Sponsor portfolio‑level reliability reviews to identify concentration risks, recurring failure patterns, and strategic remediation priorities.
• Ensure operational risks and critical dependencies are visible to senior leaders with clear ownership, mitigation plans, and decision timelines.

Team & Delivery Management

• Build and lead a multi‑platform production support organization comprising Hyderabad‑based FTEs, contractors, and strategic partners under a unified operating model.
• Define the organizational structure, leadership roles, workforce strategy, and sourcing mix required to deliver resilient 24×7 support at scale.
• Develop a strong leadership bench through succession planning, coaching, capability frameworks, and targeted development of critical technical and operational skills.
• Set clear outcome‑based accountabilities for leaders and teams, reinforcing a culture of ownership, collaboration, inclusion, and continuous improvement.
• Own workforce capacity, financial stewardship, vendor performance, and support readiness for business‑critical Tier 1 and Tier 2 applications.
• Set the AI, automation, observability, and operational modernization strategy for L2 production support, with a multi‑year roadmap and measurable value targets.
• Sponsor and scale priority use cases such as intelligent triage, event correlation, predictive detection, automated remediation, and self‑healing capabilities.
• Partner with engineering, SRE, architecture, data, cybersecurity, and platform leaders to embed reliability‑by‑design and operational readiness into the delivery lifecycle.
• Establish value‑realization measures covering incident prevention, MTTR, automation adoption, productivity, service quality, and cost efficiency.
• Govern responsible AI adoption, controls, risk management, and sustainable operating practices across the support organization.

Stakeholder & Cross‑Functional Collaboration

• Serve as the senior offshore partner and escalation point for onshore technology and business leaders, product teams, SRE, infrastructure, cybersecurity, and strategic vendors.
• Translate business priorities and customer impact into portfolio strategy, operational commitments, investment proposals, and transformation roadmaps.
• Lead executive service reviews with clear insights on performance, risk, capacity, financials, transformation progress, and decisions required.
• Influence cross‑functional leaders to resolve systemic dependencies, align priorities, and accelerate outcomes across business‑critical digital journeys.
• Own strategic vendor and partner governance, including commercial performance, service quality, accountability, and continuous value improvement.

Required Qualifications

• 18+ years of experience in Application Production Support / IT Operations, with at least 10 years in a leadership role.
• Proven expertise in Major Incident Management, cross‑tower escalation, and stakeholder communications.
• Experience managing offshore teams, including FTEs and contractors, at scale.
• Hands‑on understanding of ITIL, SRE, and operational excellence practices.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience supporting healthcare or regulated digital platforms.
• Exposure to AI‑driven operations, automation, and L2/L3 efficiency initiatives.
• Familiarity with observability and support tools (e.g., ServiceNow, monitoring and APM platforms).
• Strong executive communication and leadership presence during high‑pressure situations.