Support Delivery Lead
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Description
Role and Responsibilities
Job Summary:
We’re looking for a Support Delivery Lead responsible for overseeing the end-to-end support, maintenance, and delivery of our enterprise integration platforms. This individual will lead a team of support engineers and support leads, ensuring the all platform's stability, performance, and availability. The ideal candidate is a strategic thinker with a strong technical background in integration technologies, excellent leadership skills, and a passion for customer service and continuous improvement. This role requires a hands-on leader who can balance technical expertise with effective team management and stakeholder communication.
Key Responsibilities:
1. Leadership & Team Management:
• Lead, mentor, and manage a team of integration support engineers and leads, fostering a culture of collaboration, accountability, and professional growth.
• Define team goals, key performance indicators (KPIs), and service level agreements (SLAs), and ensure the team meets or exceeds them.
• Conduct regular performance reviews, provide constructive feedback, and identify training and development opportunities for team members.
• Manage team schedules, on-call rotations, and resource allocation to ensure 24/7/365 coverage for critical systems.
• Drive a continuous improvement mindset within the team, encouraging proactive problem-solving and root cause analysis.
2. Platform Support & Operations:
• Act as the primary point of escalation for complex technical issues related to the integration platforms (e.g., Azure Integration Services, SAP BTP IS, EDI, SFTP, Solace etc.).
• Oversee the incident, problem, and change management processes for the integration platforms, ensuring timely resolution and clear communication.
• Ensure all integration services are monitored effectively and proactively identify and address potential performance bottlenecks or stability risks.
• Develop and maintain a robust knowledge base, runbooks, and standard operating procedures (SOPs) for the support team.
• Manage the platform's health, including patching, upgrades, and capacity planning, in collaboration with the engineering and infrastructure teams.
3. Stakeholder & Delivery Management:
• Serve as the key liaison between the integration support team and other IT and business units (e.g., Integration Delivery, Integration Architectures, Product management, business analysts).
• Provide regular updates on platform performance, incident trends, and support delivery metrics to senior management and key stakeholders.
• Collaborate with project teams to ensure new integrations are designed for supportability and a smooth transition to production.
• Manage the delivery of support-related projects and initiatives, such as platform upgrades, automation projects, or new monitoring tool implementations.
• Effectively communicate technical information to both technical and non-technical audiences.
4. Strategic & Process Improvement:
• Analyze support trends and recurring issues to identify root causes and drive long-term solutions.
• Champion the adoption of best practices in ITIL, DevOps, and SRE (Site Reliability Engineering) to improve the efficiency and effectiveness of the support team.
• Evaluate and recommend new tools and technologies to enhance the platform's supportability, monitoring, and automation capabilities.
• Develop and implement a strategy for platform resilience, disaster recovery, and business continuity.
Requirements
Required Qualifications:
Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, IT, or related field.
Minimum 15 years in IT, including 5 years in integration/middleware team leadership.
Strong background in enterprise integration and platform support.
Excellent interpersonal, leadership, and problem-solving skills.
Ability to communicate with both technical and business stakeholders.
Preferred Skills/Certifications:Certifications: ITIL, SRE, or other relevant credentials.
Tools Exposure: Splunk, Dynatrace, Datadog, ELK Stack.
Experience working in global support environments.
Familiarity with DevOps and SRE practices.
