Your Future Evolves Here
Evolent partners with health plans and providers to achieve better outcomes for people with most complex and costly health conditions. Working across specialties and primary care, we seek to connect the pieces of fragmented health care system and ensure people get the same level of care and compassion we would want for our loved ones.
Evolent employees enjoy work/life balance, the flexibility to suit their work to their lives, and autonomy they need to get things done. We believe that people do their best work when they're supported to live their best lives, and when they feel welcome to bring their whole selves to work. That's one reason why diversity and inclusion are core to our business.
Join Evolent for the mission. Stay for the culture.
What You’ll Be Doing:
Evolent partners with health plans and providers to deliver better outcomes for people with complex health conditions. We are seeking an experienced Associate Director, Application Engineering to lead a Scrum team in Pune, India, driving delivery of product and engineering initiatives that support scalable, reliable, and high-quality technology solutions. This role combines people leadership, technical depth, and cross-functional collaboration to help teams deliver meaningful business impact.
In this role, you will:
Lead engineering delivery and team performance
- Lead and manage a Scrum team of software engineers and QA professionals, including manual and automation testing resources
- Own end-to-end delivery of product initiatives in close partnership with Product Management and cross-functional stakeholders
- Drive predictable, high-quality execution across sprints and releases
- Foster accountability, ownership, and a culture of continuous improvement within the team
Provide people leadership and operational oversight
- Oversee day-to-day software development activities and ensure alignment to delivery commitments
- Conduct performance reviews and support career growth and development for team members
- Coach and mentor team members across technical, functional, and leadership dimensions
- Promote strong engineering discipline, delivery rigor, and adoption of best practices
Drive technical leadership and solution quality
- Provide technical leadership in the design, development, testing, and deployment of enterprise applications
- Analyze complex problems and recommend scalable, resilient, and high-performing solutions
- Identify opportunities to modernize architecture, improve maintainability, and challenge the status quo where appropriate
Partner across product and business teams
- Partner with Product Owners and key stakeholders to translate business needs into scalable technical solutions
- Support backlog refinement, prioritization, sprint planning, and delivery planning activities
- Provide solution input, effort estimates, and engineering guidance throughout the development lifecycle
Advance agile execution and delivery excellence
- Lead Scrum ceremonies, remove delivery impediments, and help the team maintain focus on outcomes
- Continuously improve Agile ways of working to increase team effectiveness and delivery predictability
Qualifications
Required:
- Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Engineering, or a related field
- 10+ years of experience in software engineering, with progressive leadership responsibility
- Experience leading Scrum teams and managing software delivery in Agile environments
- Strong expertise in Microsoft .NET, C#, ASP.NET MVC/Web API, and SQL Server
- Exposure to DevOps practices and CI/CD pipelines.
- Experience with Azure technologies such as Functions, Service Bus, Queues, Monitor, ACS etc.
Preferred:
- Experience in healthcare technology or a related regulated industry
- Experience with microservices, distributed systems, and modern application architecture patterns
At Evolent, we are committed to improving health outcomes for people with complex conditions. We look for leaders who thrive in a collaborative environment, bring a strong sense of purpose to their work, and are energized by the opportunity to build high-quality solutions that make a meaningful impact.
- Strong sense of ownership and accountability
- Passion for mentoring, team development, and building inclusive, high-performing teams
- Commitment to continuous learning and improvement
- Ability to collaborate effectively and model Evolent values in day-to-day work
To ensure a secure hiring process we have implemented several identity verification steps, including submission of a government issued photo ID. We conduct identity verification during interviews, and final interviews may require onsite attendance. All candidates must complete a comprehensive background check, in-person I-9 verification, and may be subject to drug screening prior to employment. The use of artificial intelligence tools during interviews is prohibited and monitored. Misrepresentation will result in immediate disqualification from consideration.
Technical Requirements:
We require that all employees have the following technical capability at their home: High speed internet over 10 Mbps and, specifically for all call center employees, the ability to plug in directly to the home internet router.
Evolent is an equal opportunity employer and considers all qualified applicants equally without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, veteran status, or disability status. If you need reasonable accommodation to access the information provided on this website, please contact [email protected] for further assistance.
The expected base salary/wage range for this position is $. As part of our total compensation package, Evolent is proud to offer comprehensive benefits (including health insurance benefits) to qualifying employees. All compensation determinations are based on the skills and experience required for the position and commensurate with experience of selected individuals, which may vary above and below the stated amounts.Skills Required
- Bachelor's degree in computer science, engineering, or related field
- 10+ years of experience in software engineering with progressive leadership responsibility
- Experience leading Scrum teams and managing software delivery in Agile environments
- Strong expertise in Microsoft .NET
- Strong expertise in C#
- Strong expertise in ASP.NET MVC and Web API
- Experience with SQL Server
- Exposure to DevOps practices and CI/CD pipelines
- Experience with Azure technologies (Functions, Service Bus, Queues, Monitor, ACS)
- High speed home internet (over 10 Mbps)
- Experience in healthcare technology or regulated industry
- Experience with microservices, distributed systems, and modern application architecture patterns
Evolent Health Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Evolent Health and has not been reviewed or approved by Evolent Health.
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Leave & Time Off Breadth — Salaried roles commonly include unlimited PTO alongside paid holidays, volunteer time off, and a sabbatical option after several years. Feedback suggests time-off flexibility is a meaningful lifestyle strength for many roles.
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Healthcare Strength — Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision coverage is paired with a publicly highlighted emphasis on mental-health resources, including a 2026 Gold Bell Seal from Mental Health America. This recognition signals above-baseline support for employee health needs.
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Wellbeing & Lifestyle Benefits — A remote-first approach for most positions and flexible work arrangements are consistently emphasized. Feedback suggests these elements add notable non-cash value to the overall package.
Evolent Health Insights
What We Do
Evolent Health delivers proven clinical and administrative solutions that improve whole person health while making health care simpler and more affordable. Our three solutions—Evolent Care Partners, New Century Health and Evolent Health Services—encompass total cost of care management, specialty care management and administrative simplification. Evolent serves a national base of leading payers and providers, is the first company to receive the National Committee for Quality Assurance's Population Health Program Accreditation, and is consistently recognized as a top place to work in health care nationally. OUR PEOPLE We were named one of “Becker’s 150 Great Places to Work in Healthcare” in 2016, 2017, 2018 and 2019 and are proud to be recognized as a leader in driving diversity, equity, and inclusion (DE&I) efforts. Evolent achieved a 100% score on the 2020 Human Rights Campaign's Corporate Equality Index, making us one of the best places to work for LGBTQ+ employees. We were also named on the Best Companies for Women to Advance List 2020 and 2021 by Parity.org. OUR CULTURE Our accessible leadership team cultivates an open-door environment. We don’t like approval chains; we love ideas and people with the courage and conviction to bring novel solutions forward. We win as a team and always ask how we can do better. We respect and encourage commitments outside of work. OUR COMPENSATION & BENEFITS We recognize and reward our most valuable asset—our team—with competitive pay and annual performance-based bonuses. Evolent also offers comprehensive health benefits, a company-matched 401(k) and flexible spending accounts. Every salaried Evolent employee receives unlimited Personal Time Off and is eligible for a month-long sabbatical after working five years with Evolent. This account is monitored closely by our company. Please message us at [email protected] with any questions or concerns.
