Senior Director, Enterprise Application Support
About The Position
The Senior Director, Enterprise Application Support provides strategic leadership, governance, and operational oversight for the enterprise application support ecosystem. This role ensures high availability, scalability, and optimal performance of all core applications to support continuous enterprise operations. The Sr. Director participates in ITIL-aligned incident and problem strategies to minimize business disruption and accelerate issue resolution. Serving as a key bridge between technical teams and executive leadership, this role leads cross-functional alignment with development, infrastructure, and business units. The Sr. Director establishes key performance indicators (KPIs) and automation frameworks to continuously modernize the application support function, operating with full autonomy to safeguard the technology environment.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology/Systems or Equivalent related field
- 10+ years of progressive IT experience, with at least 5+ years in a senior leadership role overseeing enterprise-scale application support or IT operations.
- 5-8 years of experience in a healthcare-based help desk or support environment required.
- Proficiency with healthcare software, terminologies, EMRs or EHRs.
- Expertise in ITIL service management frameworks and ITSM platforms (e.g. Atlassian: JIRA, Confluence and/or Status Page).
- Strong analytical abilities, organizational skills, problem-solving skills, and attention to detail.
- Exceptional communication skills with the ability to translate complex technical issues into strategic business impacts for executive audiences.
- Flexible and adaptable to change
- Have an internal sense of drive, self-motivation, a team player, action and results oriented.
- Ability to handle stress and prioritize multiple issues in a fast-paced environment.
- Excited & motivated to learn new technologies and advance personal skillset.
Responsibilities
- Define and execute the global operational strategy for enterprise application support across all business units.
- Establish, monitor, and report on executive-level KPIs and operational metrics to guarantee platform uptime and performance.
- Participate in enterprise-wide incident response management for critical application outages.
- Participate in root cause analysis (RCA) and permanent problem-remediation frameworks across the application landscape.
- Formulate governance frameworks, standard operating procedures, and comprehensive knowledge management strategies.
- Direct, mentor, and scale a high-performing department of Enterprise Application Support managers, engineers, and liaisons.
- Collaborate with End-Users, Product and Engineering leaders to ensure customer satisfaction as well as assist with smooth transition of new software from deployment to steady-state operations.
- Champion automation, AI-driven operations (AIOps), and self-healing systems to reduce manual support intervention.
- Act as the primary liaison between enterprise application support operations and business executive stakeholders regarding application performance and roadmap alignment.
- Evaluate emerging support technologies, monitoring tools, and methodologies to continuously modernize enterprise capabilities.
- Embody AnewHealth’s Core Values in all communications and interactions.
- Other duties as assigned.
Benefits
- medical/dental/vision
- flexible spending
- company-paid life insurance
- short-term disability
- voluntary benefits
- 401(k)
- Paid Time Off
- paid holidays
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
