Application Operations Lead

Endava

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About The Position

The Application Operations Lead is responsible for end‑to‑end operational ownership of complex, business‑critical applications and workflows that span multiple platforms, integrations, and support teams.
This role exists to close a common enterprise gap: when issues cross systems, ownership becomes fragmented, resolution slows, and accountability blurs. The Principal Lead acts as the single operational owner, ensuring issues are diagnosed quickly, routed correctly, and resolved completely—regardless of which teams or technologies are involved.
This is a senior individual contributor role focused on systems thinking, operational clarity, and cross‑team leadership, not people management.

Requirements

• Strong experience supporting complex, integrated applications in production.
• Demonstrated ability to troubleshoot issues that span: Multiple systems Multiple teams Multiple vendors
• Deep understanding of: Application workflows Data movement and integrations Identity and access concepts
• Proven ability to operate effectively without formal authority.
• Excellent documentation and communication skills.

Nice To Haves

• Experience working in: Healthcare, regulated, or compliance‑sensitive environments Centralized operations or ECC models
• Experience building or maturing support operating models, not just running tickets.
• Comfort acting as the “glue” between product, engineering, operations, and vendors.

Responsibilities

• Serve as the single point of operational accountability for assigned applications and workflows.
• Own incidents from intake through resolution, even when fixes span multiple teams or vendors.
• Act as the escalation lead when issues cross traditional support boundaries.
• Diagnose complex failures involving: SaaS platforms Identity and access systems Data pipelines and integrations Upstream/downstream dependencies
• Rapidly determine where a failure occurred and why, distinguishing between: Data correctness issues Timing/latency issues Distribution or entitlement failures
• Reduce noise by ensuring issues are routed to the right team the first time.
• Own and maintain authoritative end‑to‑end support diagrams for assigned platforms.
• Create and evolve triage runbooks that define: What to check Where to check it Who owns each correction step
• Ensure documentation reflects real operational behavior, not just architecture.
• Act as Tier 2.5 / Tier 3 escalation lead for complex operational issues.
• Coordinate across engineering, integration, security, data, and vendor teams during active incidents.
• Provide clear, confident communication during high‑impact situations.
• Identify recurring failure patterns and systemic gaps.
• Partner with engineering and product teams to reduce operational risk over time.
• Enable centralized teams (ECC / Service Desk) through: Clear escalation criteria Validated runbooks Knowledge transfer and coaching
• Help define a repeatable operational playbook that can be applied to additional applications.
• Identify opportunities to reduce manual effort through: Dashboards Data validation checks Workflow automation AI‑assisted analysis (where appropriate)
• Focus on reducing operational drag, not just fixing individual incidents.

Benefits

• Robust healthcare and benefits including Medical, Dental, vision, Disability coverage, and various other benefit options
• Flexible Spending Accounts (Medical, Transit, and Dependent Care)
• Employer Paid Life Insurance and AD&D Coverages
• Health Savings account paired with our low-cost High Deductible Medical Plan
• 401(k) Safe Harbor Retirement plan with employer match with immediately vest

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Education Level: No Education Listed