Onsite Associate Director – Technology II

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About the role

  • Associate Director-Technology II leading Reactive Problem Management function at AT&T. Ensuring quality outcomes for post-incident problem investigations while managing a team of IT professionals.

Responsibilities

  • Leads an enterprise-wide Reactive Problem Management function covering the full application portfolio; accountable for consistent execution, quality, and outcomes of post-incident problem investigations.
  • Ensures problems reach true root cause (not symptoms) using structured analysis and evidence-based conclusions; sets quality standards for problem records, timelines, and closure criteria.
  • Creates, assigns, and rigorously tracks corrective and preventive Action Items, driving cross-team accountability through completion and validating effectiveness in reducing recurrence and improving resiliency.
  • Partners with application, platform, infrastructure, network, security, and operations teams after service restoration to coordinate investigations, remove blockers, and align on remediation plans.
  • Drives measurable improvement in resiliency, reduction in customer disruption, and reduced MTTR through elimination of repeat incidents, improved detection/diagnostics, and better operational readiness.
  • Uses impact, recurrence, and risk to influence engineering and platform backlogs, ensuring the highest-value remediation work is prioritized and delivered without direct change/governance ownership.
  • Produces clear, executive-ready summaries of root cause, contributing factors, risk exposure, remediation progress, and expected impact; escalates when commitments or timelines are at risk.
  • Manages and develops a team of 7–10 Problem Managers/analysts; coaches structured problem-solving, stakeholder management, and crisp documentation; sets expectations for pace, rigor, and accountability.
  • Establishes and maintains standard operating practices for intake, severity/priority, aging management, escalation, and closure; ensures consistency across business units and application teams.
  • Identifies systemic patterns across incidents and problems, recommends enterprise-level resiliency improvements, and drives preventative initiatives based on trend and impact analysis.

Requirements

  • 5+ years of related experience.
  • Bachelor’s degree (BS/BA) in Computer Science preferred.
  • Supervisor: Yes

Benefits

  • Medical/Dental/Vision coverage
  • 401(k) plan
  • Tuition reimbursement program
  • Paid Time Off and Holidays (based on date of hire, at least 23 days of vacation each year and 9 company-designated holidays)
  • Paid Parental Leave
  • Paid Caregiver Leave
  • Additional sick leave beyond what state and local law require may be available but is unprotected
  • Adoption Reimbursement
  • Disability Benefits (short term and long term)
  • Life and Accidental Death Insurance
  • Supplemental benefit programs: critical illness/accident hospital indemnity/group legal
  • Employee Assistance Programs (EAP)
  • Extensive employee wellness programs
  • Employee discounts up to 50% off on eligible AT&T mobility plans and accessories, AT&T internet (and fiber where available) and AT&T phone

Job title

Associate Director – Technology II

Job type

Experience level

Senior

Salary

$171,000 - $256,400 per year

Degree requirement

Bachelor's Degree

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