Associate Director, Platform Services

Morningstar Credit Ratings, LLC; Mumbai; Hybrid; INR 3,500,000 - 5,400,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid work model

Equal opportunity employer

Job summary

Morningstar India Private Ltd. in Navi Mumbai seeks an Associate Director of Platform Services to lead a 29-person global team across shifts, with 3 direct reports. You will drive recruitment, standardize processes, and advance AI-driven support capabilities.

This role requires IT infrastructure management experience, cloud knowledge, ITIL Foundation, and excellent English; the hybrid work model requires four days in-office weekly, with equal opportunity employment.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or Diploma with strong academic credentials.
• 8+ years in IT infrastructure management; 3+ years in people management.
• Background in technical infrastructure/cloud.
• ITIL Foundation cert required; higher certs preferred.
• Proven experience applying AI/automation to improve operations.

Responsibilities

• Lead the India Platform Services team including Managers and Senior Managers.
• Drive recruitment, growth, and retention of personnel.
• Serve as escalation point for major incidents or high-severity issues.
• Own end-to-end incident and ticket management, including queue prioritization.
• Document, standardize, and migrate processes from Global Platform Services teams.
• Identify, track, and report against process KPIs; maintain dashboards.
• Identify opportunities for automation and AI-driven efficiencies.
• Understand business priorities and adjust resource focus accordingly.
• Support cross-functional projects as required.

Skills

Team leadership

IT infrastructure management

English communication

AI/Automation in IT

Cloud / Infrastructure knowledge

Education

Bachelor's degree or Diploma

Tools

ITIL Foundation

Job description

About the Team

Morningstar's frontline Platform Services team, based in Mumbai, provides support functions for the Global Platform Services organization. The team handles incidents (24x5 coverage with on-call weekends) and service requests escalated from Morningstar's monitoring, service desk, and desktop support employee experience groups, working in close collaboration with third-line engineering teams based in North America, EMEA, and APAC.

The Role

Morningstar is looking for a highly motivated and collaborative Associate Director of Platform Services to lead a team based in our Navi Mumbai office. The ideal candidate thrives on new experiences and challenges, enjoys leading a team with global responsibility, and is passionate about implementing and improving processes with an emphasis on quality outcomes. This role leads a team of 3 direct reports (2 Senior Managers, 1 Manager), overseeing a total team of 29 across shifts. While day-to-day coverage and on-call rotation are managed by the Senior Managers and Manager, the Associate Director is expected to be available for escalation on major incidents or high-severity issues. The successful candidate will play an instrumental role in recruiting, building, and maintaining the current support team, and in advancing the team's technology support capabilities. These capabilities include troubleshooting, break/fix, configuration, upgrades, and project work. Candidate will also grow team maturity through process creation, automation, and standardization. Experience applying AI to meaningfully improve support operations and efficiency is a requirement. Interested candidates should have a proven track record leading a team focused on global support or global operational output, a technical management background, a solid understanding of Platform Services technologies, and highly effective English communication skills.

Platform Services Technologies

• Network – WAN/LAN
• Server / Storage / Backup
• Virtualization/ Operating Systems
• Data Center
• Identity & Access Management
• Cloud Operations (AWS/Azure)

Responsibilities

• Lead the Morningstar India Platform Services support function, managing a team of leaders (Senior Managers and Managers) who own their own direct reports, shift patterns, and coverage planning.
• Drive recruitment, growth, and retention of Platform Services personnel.
• Serve as the escalation point for major incidents or high-severity issues, as needed.
• Own end-to-end incident and ticket management, including queue prioritization and serving as the frontline escalation point for incident response.
• Document, standardize, and migrate support processes from the Global Platform Services teams in North America, EMEA, and APAC.
• Identify, track, and report against process KPIs; deliver operational reporting and maintain dashboards.
• Identify and drive opportunities for service and process improvement, including automation and AI-driven efficiencies.
• Understand business and stakeholder priorities, adjusting resource focus as needed.
• Support cross-functional projects as required.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree or Diploma with strong academic credentials.
• 8+ years of experience; at least five years of IT infrastructure management experience, including at least 3 years managing people-managers (not just individual contributors), with a proven, demonstrable record of leading a team focused on support or operational output.
• Background in technical infrastructure/cloud and associated knowledge.
• ITIL Foundation certification required; ITIL Intermediate/Expert or Service Operation practice certification preferred or higher.
• Demonstrated experience applying AI/automation tools to improve support operations and efficiency.
• Excellent written and spoken English.
• Strong verbal and written communication skills.
• Strong organizational and teamwork skills.

A range of other benefits are also available to enhance flexibility as needs change.

Morningstar's hybrid work environment gives you the opportunity to collaborate in-person each week as we've found that we're at our best when we're purposely together on a regular basis. In most of our locations, our hybrid work model is four days in-office each week.

Morningstar is an equal opportunity employer.

Morningstar is a global independent investment research and financial data company. Here, you'll help uncover what’s hidden, simplify what’s complex, and create insights that empower investor success.

Morningstar is strongly committed to creating and preserving equal opportunity for all employees and applicants.

We make all employment decisions—including recruitment, hiring, compensation, training, promotion, transfer, discipline, termination, and other personnel matters—without regard to race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, protected veteran status, marital status, sexual orientation, genetic information, citizenship, gender identity and expression, parental status, or other legally protected characteristics or conduct.

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