Support Team Lead - IAM

HCL Technologies Limited; Manchester; Hybrid; GBP 55,000 - 75,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Vacation policy

Term life insurance

Business travel insurance

Job summary

HCL Technologies Limited is seeking a Support Team Lead for Identity & Access Management in Manchester, with hybrid work at client locations. The role focuses on day-to-day operational support, queue management, escalation handling, and service improvement to reduce incidents.

The ideal candidate will have strong ITIL-based incident and request management, excellent stakeholder communication, and experience leading a technical service desk or operational support teams. IAM exposure is a plus.

Qualifications

• Experience leading or coordinating a technical support, service desk, or operational support function.
• Strong incident, request, and problem management skills.
• Experience managing support queues, assigning work, and tracking delivery against service levels.
• Knowledge of ITIL service management practices.
• Excellent organisational, stakeholder management, and communication skills.
• Exposure to Identity and Access Management platforms such as SailPoint IIQ/ISC is beneficial but not essential.

Responsibilities

• Monitor and manage support queues, ensuring incidents and requests are prioritised and progressed in line with SLAs.
• Assign work across the support team and track delivery to ensure timely resolution of tickets.
• Act as the primary point of contact for escalations, coordinating resolution activities across multiple teams.
• Conduct regular reviews of ticket backlogs, ageing incidents, and outstanding actions.
• Follow up with engineers, suppliers, and stakeholders to ensure issues are progressed and resolved.
• Produce operational reporting on queue health, service performance, risks, and trends.
• Identify recurring issues and drive service improvements to reduce incident volumes and improve user experience.
• Support resource planning, workload balancing, and prioritisation of operational activities.
• Maintain support procedures, knowledge articles, and operational documentation.
• Build strong working relationships with business stakeholders, technology teams, and service management functions.

Job description

Support Team Lead - IAM

Date: 2026-09-25T00:00:00

Location: Manchester

Region: Greater Manchester

Country: GB

Postal Code: M2 5

Application Deadline: 2026-10-23T14:04:14.803

We are a $13+ billion global technology company, home to more than 224,000 people across 60 countries, delivering industry-leading capabilities centered around digital, engineering, cloud, and AI, powered by a broad portfolio of technology services and products. HCLTech is a globally recognized leader in the Tech and IT industry, but we've never forgotten the startup mindset that got us here. We've always approached our work with an idea-first attitude because every one of our accomplishments - no matter how big or small - can be traced back to an idea's single spark. It's that spark - that inner drive - that sets our people apart from our competitors. It enables us not just to pull off game-changing feats but to better our world in the process. We want you to find your spark. Because that's what drives you to be better, be more, and ultimately, be more fulfilled. To learn more about how we can supercharge progress for you, visit www.hcltech.com.

Job Title: Support Team Lead - IAM

Location: Leeds / Halifax / Manchester (Hybrid mode at client location)

Job Summary - Support Team Lead - Identity & Access Management (IAM)

The Support Team Lead is responsible for the day-to-day management of operational support activities, ensuring incidents, service requests, and user queries are handled efficiently and within agreed service levels. The role focuses on queue management, workload prioritisation, work allocation, escalation management, and driving timely resolution of support issues across the team.

Key Responsibilities

• Monitor and manage support queues, ensuring incidents and requests are prioritised and progressed in line with SLAs.


• Assign work across the support team and track delivery to ensure timely resolution of tickets.


• Act as the primary point of contact for escalations, coordinating resolution activities across multiple teams.


• Conduct regular reviews of ticket backlogs, ageing incidents, and outstanding actions.


• Follow up with engineers, suppliers, and stakeholders to ensure issues are progressed and resolved.


• Produce operational reporting on queue health, service performance, risks, and trends.


• Identify recurring issues and drive service improvements to reduce incident volumes and improve user experience.


• Support resource planning, workload balancing, and prioritisation of operational activities.


• Maintain support procedures, knowledge articles, and operational documentation.


• Build strong working relationships with business stakeholders, technology teams, and service management functions.

Required Experience

• Experience leading or coordinating a technical support, service desk, application support, or operational support function.


• Strong incident, request, and problem management skills.


• Experience managing support queues, assigning work, and tracking delivery against service levels.


• Knowledge of ITIL service management practices.


• Excellent organisational, stakeholder management, and communication skills.


• Exposure to Identity and Access Management platforms such as SailPoint IdentityIQ (IIQ) or SailPoint Identity Security Cloud (ISC) would be beneficial but is not essential. This role is primarily focused on operational leadership and service management rather than deep technical administration of the SailPoint platform.

Benefits

A supportive, diverse, and global team with a brilliant culture. Competitive compensation and benefits that include vacation per year, various insurances like Term life and Business Travel insurance. These are apart from the statutory benefits applicable in the country. Employee benefits are regulated by an internal policy that contains full details regarding the entitlement and conditions for the benefits as per the law of the land.

Great opportunities to make the role your own, upskill yourself, and get involved with exciting projects. Total Wellbeing is our focus. Alongside your professional excellence, you can join like-minded colleagues to create a larger impact within the company and society at large in your chosen area of passion - CSR Council, Diversity Council, Women Connect, Sparks - Engagement Champion to name a few.

To know more about us visit - www.hcltech.com

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We are a $13+ billion global technology company, home to more than 224,000 people across 60 countries, delivering industry-leading capabilities centered around digital, engineering, cloud, and AI, powered by a broad portfolio of technology services and products.HCLTech is a globally recognized leader in the Tech and IT industry, but we've never forgotten the startup mindset that got us here. We've always approached our work with an idea-first attitude because every one of our accomplishments -no matter how big or small -can be traced back to an idea's single spark.It's that spark -that inner drive -that sets our people apart from our competitors. It enables us not just to pull off game-changing feat after game-changing feat but to better our world in the process. We want you to find your spark. Because that's what drives you to be better, be more and ultimately, be more fulfilled. To learn more about how we can supercharge progress for you, visit www.hcltech.com Job Title: Support Team Lead - IAMLocation: Leeds / Halifax / Manchester (Hybrid mode at client location) Job Summary- Support Team Lead - Identity & Access Management (IAM)The Support Team Lead is responsible for the day-to-day management of operational support activities, ensuring incidents, service requests, and user queries are handled efficiently and within agreed service levels. The role focuses on queue management, workload prioritisation, work allocation, escalation management, and driving timely resolution of support issues across the team. Key ResponsibilitiesMonitor and manage support queues, ensuring incidents and requests are prioritised and progressed in line with SLAs.Assign work across the support team and track delivery to ensure timely resolution of tickets.Act as the primary point of contact for escalations, coordinating resolution activities across multiple teams.Conduct regular reviews of ticket backlogs, ageing incidents, and outstanding actions.Follow up with engineers, suppliers, and stakeholders to ensure issues were progressed and resolved.Produce operational reporting on queue health, service performance, risks, and trends.Identify recurring issues and drive service improvements to reduce incident volumes and improve user experience.Support resource planning, workload balancing, and prioritisation of operational activities.Maintain support procedures, knowledge articles, and operational documentation.Build strong working relationships with business stakeholders, technology teams, and service management functions. Required ExperienceExperience leading or coordinating a technical support, service desk, application support, and operational support function.Strong incident, request, and problem management skills.Experience managing support queues, assigning work, and tracking delivery against service levels.Knowledge of ITIL service management practices.Excellent organisational, stakeholder management, and communication skills.Exposure to Identity and Access Management platforms such as SailPoint IdentityIQ (IIQ) or SailPoint Identity Security Cloud (ISC) would be beneficial but is not essential. This role is primarily focused on operational leadership and service management rather than deep technical administration of the SailPoint platform. BenefitsA supportive, diverse, and global team with a brilliant culture.Competitive compensation and benefits that includes vacation per year, various insurances like Term life and Business Travel insurance. These are apart from the statutory benefits applicable in the country. Employee benefits are regulated by an internal policy that contains full details regarding the entitlement and conditions for the benefits as per the law of the land. Great opportunities to make the role your own, upskill yourself and get involved with exciting projects.Total Wellbeing is our focus. Alongside your professional excellence, you join the likeminded colleagues to create a larger impact within the company and society at large in your chosen area of passion - CSR Council, Diversity Council, Women Connect, Sparks - Engagement Champion to name a few. To know more... etc.