Director, IT Applications
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Director leading enterprise application strategy, operations, vendors, and technology teams for Liberty Dental Plan. Driving secure modernization supporting dental health-plan members and clients.
Responsibilities:
- Lead delivery, support, maintenance, and optimization of critical business applications
- Serve as product owner for assigned application platforms and establish strategic priorities, modernization initiatives, and technology roadmaps
- Partner with business leaders to understand requirements, identify process bottlenecks, and recommend technology solutions
- Balance business priorities, operational stability, modernization efforts, and technical debt reduction
- Guide application strategy and influence technical direction with technical teams and stakeholders
- Ensure applications meet service-level expectations for availability, performance, incident response, and production support
- Oversee release planning, production readiness, maintenance, and enhancement activities
- Maintain controls around data integrity, compliance, security, and system management
- Monitor application health, technical debt, remediation efforts, risks, and progress for leadership
- Support audits, client reviews, regulatory inquiries, proposal responses, and new client implementations
- Manage vendor and consulting relationships, third-party resources, budgets, and operational objectives
- Partner with compliance, security, infrastructure, architecture, governance, and business operations teams
- Lead, coach, mentor, and develop a high-performing technology team
- Establish expectations, provide performance feedback, delegate effectively, and develop future leaders
- Foster collaboration, trust, continuous learning, professional growth, and accountability
Requirements:
- Bachelor's degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, Business, or a related field
- 10+ years of experience in IT applications, application support, systems delivery, or a related discipline
- 5+ years of people leadership experience
- Strong understanding of application delivery, support, operations, and service level management
- Experience with software development lifecycles, release management, production support, and application maintenance practices
- Experience managing vendors, budgets, resources, operational risks, and delivery governance
- Ability to build trusted relationships with business leaders, technical teams, and external partners
- Strong communication, problem-solving, decision-making, and leadership skills
- Healthcare payer experience, including Medicare and/or Medicaid environments preferred
- Dental payer experience strongly preferred
- Experience supporting delegated healthcare models and healthcare operations
- Experience with Health Solutions Plus (HSP) and healthcare payer administration platforms highly preferred
- Experience participating in audits, regulatory reviews, RFP responses, and client-facing initiatives
- Experience with Agile delivery methodologies
- Familiarity with Azure, APIs, web portals, management information systems, and database technologies
- Experience collaborating with Scrum Masters and Project Managers
- Experience with DevOps practices and modern application delivery approaches
- Previous experience working with Conduent or similar healthcare technology partners is a plus
- Must work from within the United States
- No relocation assistance or sponsorship available
Benefits:
- Competitive pay structure and savings options
- 401(k) retirement benefits, including employer match, Roth IRA options, immediate vesting during the Safe Harbor period, and access to professional financial advice through Financial Engines
- Affordable medical insurance with low-cost premiums for employee-only coverage; Liberty subsidizes eligible dependents
- 100% employer-paid dental coverage for employees and eligible dependents
- Vision insurance
- Company-paid basic life and AD&D insurance equal to one times base salary, with supplemental coverage options
- Flexible Spending Accounts for healthcare and dependent care expenses
- Voluntary accident, critical illness, and hospital indemnity insurance
- Long-term disability coverage
- Expansive wellness programs, including wellness challenges, BurnAlong memberships, and gym discounts
- Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
- Generous vacation and sick leave policies, with unused leave rollover
- 10 paid company holidays
- Tuition reimbursement for eligible educational expenses
- Remote or hybrid work options available for various positions
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