Sr Director, Software Engineering

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: Sr. Director, AI Platform EngineeringJob SummaryThe Sr. Director of AI Platform Engineering leads the engineering teams supporting Evolent's enterprise AI platform initiatives, with a focus on three capability areas: the document pipeline, event-driven architecture, and agentic user interfaces. The role is accountable for engineering execution in these areas — staffing the teams, delivering the software, and operating it in production — working within the platform direction set with Enterprise Architecture and Product. This is a build-the-team-while-you-build-the-platform role. The leader will stand up and grow multiple engineering teams from an early-stage footprint and deliver capability on a roadmap where later work depends on the foundations landing first. Success requires equal strength in enterprise-scale delivery judgment and in hiring, organizing and developing engineering talent under delivery pressure. Architectural direction and platform design standards are set in partnership with Enterprise Architecture. This role is a primary contributor to and implementer of them rather than their sole owner. The Sr. Director partners closely with Architecture, Product, Data Engineering, Security and the core system engineering teams, and represents the platform engineering organization in executive forums. As a leader in the engineering organization, the Sr. Director fosters a culture of quality, customer obsession, product mindset, and technical excellence. What You Will Be Doing Support New Enterprise-Scale Platform Initiatives Lead the engineering teams delivering the document pipeline, event-driven architecture and agentic user interface capabilities, from build through production support. Support roadmap sequencing with architecture and product partners, so foundational capabilities land ahead of the work that depend on them and hold that sequence when delivery pressure argues for shortcuts. Implement the platform contracts and standards agreed with Enterprise Architecture and contribute to the engineering perspective that shapes them before dependent teams build against them. Drive capabilities from first production consumer to broader enterprise adoption, proving each one at production volume rather than declaring it complete at first release. Partner with the infrastructure and security organizations on the underlying cloud, messaging and hosting foundations the platform depends on. Build and Grow the Teams Stand up and scale the engineering teams behind each capability area, including the team topology, role mix and skill profile each one requires as it moves from early build into production operations. Recruit, hire and onboard engineers and engineering managers at pace, and set the hiring bar for full-stack, platform, integration and UX engineering roles on the platform. Mentor and develop engineering and technical staff, foster leadership and technical growth, and build a bench as the organization grows. Build and maintain a strong engineering culture focused on innovation, collaboration, accountability and continuous improvement, with domain expertise and quality treated as first-class outcomes. Contribute to Technical Direction and Standards Work with executive leadership, enterprise architecture, product management, and other stakeholders to shape the platform's roadmap and long-term strategy and translate it into executable engineering plans. Apply and reinforce enterprise standards for software development, architecture, and quality assurance. Oversee development and delivery of scalable, high-quality software consistent with the approved architecture, with observability, cost telemetry and operational readiness built in from the start. Support the core system engineering teams in defining integration seams, migration paths and fallback handling so existing systems adopt platform capabilities incrementally. Act as a trusted partner to the business by understanding its needs deeply, influencing through technical expertise, and representing the engineering organization in discussions on progress, risks and opportunities. AI-Enabled Delivery Utilize approved AI-assisted engineering tools, and lead teams tha