Director, IT Operations at HealthEdge, Remote
Director, IT Operations at HealthEdge, remote. Full-time. Est. up to $130k. Apply with swipeandhired.
HealthEdge® offers AI-powered operational infrastructure for health insurance companies, guaranteeing an enduring financial edge in an increasingly competitive market. We're experiencing strong market momentum, with a growing number of health plans choosing HealthEdge to modernize their operations and compete more effectively. As we expand, we're investing in the people who power that growth, making this a pivotal moment to join us and shape the future of healthcare technology. Learn more at HealthEdge.com.
POSITION SUMMARY
The Director, IT Operations is accountable for establishing and operating the service-management governance model for Client IT Operations. This leader will create the standards, operating discipline, governance, and management mechanisms required to deliver consistent, predictable, and transparent technology operations across a complex 24x7 BPaaS/EPaaS environment.
The role is designed to be a force multiplier for operational teams: strengthening Incident, Problem/RCA, Change, Release, Knowledge, and Service Governance practices while ensuring that technical ownership remains with the teams responsible for resolution. The Director will drive cross-functional accountability, executive-quality communications, and measurable continuous improvement across onshore and offshore delivery organizations.
KEY RESPONSIBILITIES
- Build and lead the Service Management Office, including the governance framework, operating cadence, standards, controls, templates, and performance mechanisms used across Client IT Operations.
- Own the service-management process framework for Incident Management, Problem Management/RCA, Change Management, Release Management, Knowledge Management, and related service-governance practices.
- Establish clear roles, decision rights, escalation paths, and accountability across Tech Ops, infrastructure/platform teams, product teams, implementation teams, Service Desk, customers, and third-party partners.
- Lead governance for major incidents and service disruptions, ensuring disciplined process execution, timely stakeholder engagement, effective bridge management, clear escalation, and high-quality internal and customer communications.
- Define and enforce RCA standards, including ownership, timelines, evidence quality, corrective/preventive actions, cross-functional follow-through, and closure governance.
- Lead Change and Release governance, including CAB effectiveness, production-readiness controls, risk assessment, rollback/testing expectations, release calendars, and post-change validation.
- Create consistent executive and customer communication standards for incidents, service health, operational risk, planned changes, and material service issues.
- Develop service governance scorecards and management reporting covering SLA performance, incident trends, change quality, RCA completion, recurring failure patterns, operational risk, and continuous-improvement commitments.
- Partner with technical leaders to identify systemic operational issues and convert recurring incidents, manual processes, and control gaps into prioritized improvement initiatives.
- Drive standardization across customer environments while allowing documented exceptions where contractual, technical, or customer-specific requirements demand variation.
- Partner with tooling and observability teams to improve ITSM workflows, Jira/JSM utilization, telemetry, alerting, automation, and the quality of operational data used for governance and decision-making.
- Establish and maintain service-management documentation, playbooks, templates, knowledge standards, and audit-ready evidence.
- Build an effective onshore/offshore operating model that uses follow-the-sun capabilities while maintaining appropriate leadership, customer engagement, and executive communication coverage.
- Develop SMO talent, establish measurable objectives, coach leaders and practitioners, and create a culture of ownership, transparency, urgency, and continuous improvement.
ROLE BOUNDARIES AND OPERATING PRINCIPLES
- The SMO owns the process, governance, communication standards, escalation discipline, and enforcement mechanisms; technical teams retain accountability for technical diagnosis, remediation, recovery, and permanent corrective action.
- Incident Management facilitates coordinated response and communication; the responsible Technical Operations Manager, Technical Lead, Technical Director, platform, product, or engineering owner remains accountable for technical resolution.
- The SMO is expected to challenge weak process execution, unclear ownership, inadequate evidence, missed commitments, and recurring operational failure regardless of organizational boundary.
- Governance must improve speed and quality of delivery; controls should be risk-based, measurable, and increasingly automated.
LEADERSHIP & STAKEHOLDER RESPONSIBILITIES
- Serve as a senior operational partner to the VP, Client IT Operations and other technology and business leaders.
- Influence across organizational boundaries without relying solely on direct reporting relationships.
- Provide concise, fact-based executive updates during high-severity events and periods of elevated operational risk.
- Build trusted working relationships with customer-facing leaders, Technical Operations Managers, Technical Directors, infrastructure/platform teams, product and implementation organizations, vendors, and offshore delivery leaders.
- Escalate systemic risks and accountability gaps early, with clear recommendations and decisions required.
REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS
- 10+ years of progressive experience in IT operations, service management, production support, technology delivery, or related disciplines, including significant leadership responsibility.
- Demonstrated leadership of enterprise Incident, Problem, Change, Release, or broader IT Service Management functions in complex, high-availability environments.
- Strong working knowledge of ITIL practices and the ability to translate frameworks into pragmatic operating processes rather than compliance-only administration.
- Experience leading major-incident response, executive/customer communications, RCA governance, and cross-functional remediation.
- Proven ability to design or materially improve service-management operating models, governance structures, workflows, metrics, and tooling.
- Experience operating across global onshore/offshore teams and 24x7 service environments.
- Strong analytical capability with experience using operational data, trends, and service metrics to identify risk and drive improvement.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to communicate complex operational issues clearly to executives and customers.
- Demonstrated ability to drive accountability and change across teams where authority is distributed.
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS
- Experience in healthcare technology, healthcare payer operations, BPaaS, SaaS, EPaaS, or other highly regulated/transaction-intensive environments.
- Experience with Jira Service Management (JSM), enterprise ITSM platforms, observability/monitoring platforms, PagerDuty or comparable on-call tooling, and workflow automation.
- Experience supporting environments with significant customer-specific integrations, data operations, third-party dependencies, and complex production release requirements.
MEASURES OF SUCCESS
- Consistent adoption of defined service-management standards across Client IT Operations.
- Improved major-incident execution, communication quality, escalation speed, and stakeholder confidence.
- Reduced repeat incidents through stronger RCA quality, corrective-action governance, and problem management.
- Improved change success rate and reduced change-related incidents through stronger readiness and risk controls.
- Clear, timely, and reliable operational reporting with fewer manual reconciliations and conflicting sources of truth.
- Reduced ambiguity in ownership and faster resolution of cross-functional operational issues.
- Measurable reduction in operational risk, process variance, and avoidable manual effort.
- A scalable SMO organization viewed by delivery teams as an enabler of better operations and by leadership as a reliable source of operational truth.
LEADERSHIP PROFILE
The successful candidate will be a pragmatic operator who combines service-management discipline with strong judgment, executive presence, and the willingness to hold teams accountable. This role requires someone who can move comfortably between a Sev1 bridge, an executive review, a customer discussion, a process-design session, and a data-driven operating review—and who understands that the objective of governance is better service outcomes.
Geographic Responsibility: Remote, US
Type of Employment: Full-time, permanent
FLSA Classification (USA Only): Exempt
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