Engineer Carrier Contact Center

Emirates Integrated Telecommunications Company; Dubai; On-site; AED 60,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

Emirates Integrated Telecommunications Company PJSC seeks a capable Service Desk Lead to oversee 24/7 operations, ensuring timely incident resolutions and quality documentation. The role requires coordination across IT and telecom teams, escalation handling and performance reporting.

You will monitor KPIs, drive process improvements, and serve as a liaison between users and support teams while maintaining updates to escalation matrices.

Qualifications

• Bachelor degree in Telecommunications Engineering or Electronics and Communications Engineering or equivalent.
• Minimum 3 years of experience in telecom/IT service operations.
• Basic understanding of IP technologies and strong communication skills.

Responsibilities

• Oversee service desk operations ensuring 24/7 coverage and timely incident resolution.
• Monitor, analyze and report performance metrics to identify trends and improvements.
• Coordinate international change management and stakeholder communications.
• Escalate issues with complete context to minimize business impact.
• Maintain updated escalation matrices and knowledge base for future use.

Skills

English proficiency

MS Office

Self-motivated

Team player

Conflict resolution

Analytical thinking

Education

Bachelor degree in Telecommunications Engineering

Tools

Trouble-ticketing systems

Job description

Key Accountabilities

• Ensure SLA and KPI adherence across all support teams, focusing on eliminating service disruptions and maintaining business continuity and the availability of applications, retail systems, and network services.
• Act as a first point of contact for all the external technical issues (IT/Technology) for the company
• Assure proper coordination for international change management
• Full understanding of operations processes and SLA/KPIs timelines.
• Ensure timely acknowledgement, updates and follow-up for all faults reported to or by Business partners and other departments.
• Assure always the availability of updated escalation matrixes to guarantee all resources are available and contactable.
• Inform business units about network outages and impact on customers.
• Reviews trouble ticket resolutions for completeness and accuracy.
• Daily follow up on pending RFO with assignee to close it within defined SLA
• Attention to details, full understanding of network, operational processes and good communication skills help fulfil the different responsibilities associated with this position.
• Oversee day-to-day operations of all service desks, ensuring timely and effective resolution of incidents and service requests, with accurate and complete documentation
• Implement and maintain service management practices, driving process maturity and consistency in incident, request, and escalation handling.
• Monitor, analyze, and report on performance metrics (monthly and quarterly), identifying trends, improvement areas, and service anomalies.
• Handle escalations to minimize operational impact and ensure swift issue resolution.
• Coordinate shift planning and roster scheduling to ensure 24/7 service desk coverage, while addressing workload distribution, team availability, and backup readiness.
• Communicate clearly with stakeholders, provide performance updates, and act as a liaison between users and support teams.
• Provide transparent updates to stakeholders on service performance, major incidents, and improvement plans.
• Oversee and coordinate daily activities, ensuring efficient first-level support, timely escalation, and high team performance aligned with business goals
• Serve as the first point of contact for all international carrier cases, delivering immediate support to reduce downtime and avoid disruption to sales operations.
• Troubleshoot and resolve retail application issues (e.g., POS software errors, order syncing delays, transaction failures) to ensure seamless checkout and customer experience.
• Escalate unresolved or systemic issues to L2 support while providing complete context and impact details directly affected.
• Ensure that all first-level resolutions are documented, tagged, and fed into the knowledge base for future reference and team learning.
• Provide shift-based coverage during peak hours, holidays, and promotional events to ensure high availability

Qualifications

• Bachelor degree in Telecommunications Engineering or Electronics and Communications Engineering or equivalent diploma in the same or related field of study.

Experience

• Minimum 3 years of experience working in related field in Telecom Industry
• Basic understanding of IP technologies.

Skills

• Fluent in written and verbal English.
• Very good command in using MS Office (Excel, Visio, Power point, Project).
• Experience in using trouble-ticketing systems
• Self-motivated, team player and result-oriented
• Flexibility, multitasking, process oriented and conflict resolution skills
• Analytical, conceptual, initiative thinking.
• Ability to work under pressure and to be able to handle network crises and emergencies.
• Ability to express oneself clearly and concisely, both orally and in writing.

About Us

Who we are: A young UAE based company focused on finding talented people, helping them and our clients to grow

What we do: Delivering great customer experiences is at the heart of what we do. We do this by creating meaningful connections between brands and their customers, by providing the right people who seamlessly integrate into our clients’ organizations to deliver great experiences.

About the Team

About Emirates integrated Telecommunications Company PJSC

The Emirates Integrated Telecommunications Company PJSC was founded in 2005. We are the UAE’s second licensed telecommunications operator. We operate under two brands: du (launched in 2007) and Virgin Mobile the region’s first digital service (started operations in September 2017). We are listed on the Dubai Financial Market (DFM) and trade under the DU ticker (Bloomberg DU UH, Refinitiv DU.DU). Our core shareholders are government-related entities (Emirates Investment Authority 50.12%, Emirates International Telecommunications 19.7%, Mamoura Diversified Global Holding PJSC 10.06%) and the remaining by public shareholders.