Technical Operations Manager

NTT DATA, Inc.; East London; On-site; ZAR 600 000 - 800 000; Full time

Job summary

A global technology services leader seeks a Technical Operations Manager in Eastern Cape, South Africa. This entry-level management position involves overseeing IT infrastructure maintenance, resolving escalated technical incidents, and ensuring compliance with service level agreements. Candidates should have a Bachelor’s degree in IT or a related field, with 3-5 years of management experience preferred. The role encourages teamwork and effective communication to achieve business objectives. Competitive salary and on-site working conditions are offered.

Qualifications

• 3-5 years experience in a management role.
• Experience in coaching and mentoring engineering teams.
• Demonstrated experience in implementing continual service improvements.

Responsibilities

• Monitor work queues and provide support to clients with complex issues.
• Manage large teams in a fast-paced environment.
• Resolve escalated incidents within defined service levels.
• Implement operational support and continuous service improvement.

Skills

Good organizational and team management skills

Good communication skills

Client centricity

Ability to work in a pressurized environment

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Information Technology or related field

ITIL certification

Job description

Overview

Make an impact with NTT DATA
Join a company that is pushing the boundaries of what is possible. We are renowned for our technical excellence and leading innovations, and for making a difference to our clients and society. Our workplace embraces diversity and inclusion – it’s a place where you can grow, belong and thrive.

Your day at NTT DATA
The Technical Operations Manager is an entry level management role, responsible for ensuring managed service is provided to all clients, to ensure that their IT infrastructure and systems remain operational. This is done through proactively managing, overseeing, monitoring, investigating, and resolving escalated technical incidents and problems to ensure the restoration of these services to the clients to ensure compliance to the agreed service level agreement. The primary objective of this role is to ensure contracted Managed Services outcomes are delivered to the client and assists with the planning, building and supporting of delivering managed services to meet business objectives.

Key responsibilities

• Monitors the work queues and provides support to clients where the ticket is highly technical or sophisticated in nature.
• Leading and Managing large teams within a complex, fast paced environment
• Ability to effectively manage and resolve conflicts, to support team cohesion and operational stability.
• Works independently, with general direction from the client, stakeholders, team lead, or senior manager, to perform operational tasks to resolve all escalated incidents/requests in a timely manner within the agreed SLA.
• Provides support to all escalated incidents.
• Shares such knowledge, to resolve issues, document them, and push the knowledge down to other engineers.
• Acts as emergency support contact as needed, for critical client and business-impacting issues.
• Ensures that the shift handover process highlight any key escalated open tickets to be focussed on along with a handover of upcoming operation critical tasks to be carried out in the next shift.
• Timely escalation of all tickets to management with ensuing updates, where applicable.
• Proactively identifies, contributes, implements, and works with automation teams for effort optimization and automating routine tasks.
• Systematically gathers relevant information and apply technical knowledge to analyze and use highly technical troubleshooting tools and content and analytical practices.
• Uses operational and diagnostic procedures to resolve escalated tickers in unique and complex client environments.
• Performs quality audits, covering process, service experience, ticket updates as required.
• Drives service delivery to clients and applies standardized service management service operations (SMSO) to deliver managed services.
• Provides operational support and continuous service improvement post client handover from Technical Services (or other) teams.
• Implements training and development initiatives for direct reports.
• Engages with clients for technical operations as part of routine operations.
• Constantly measures and analyze team’s delivery capabilities.

To thrive in this role, you need to have

• Good organizational and team management skills.
• Good communication skills – both verbal and written coupled with excellent ability to collaborate with internal stakeholders and external clients.
• Developing understanding of budgets and cost management.
• Good time management, prioritization and delegation abilities.
• Good focus on client centricity.
• Highly focused on business outcomes.
• Ability to guide the team through transformational objectives set out by the business.
• Ability to work across different cultures and social groups.
• Ability to work well in a pressurized environment and adapt to changing circumstances.

Academic qualifications and certifications

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent degree in Information Technology or Computing or related field.
• ITIL certification is desirable.
• Demonstrated experience in Network, Collaboration/Customer experience, Cloud, Security, Data Center is advantageous.

Required experience

• Demonstrated experience in coaching and mentoring engineering team(s) gained within an information technology services organization.
• 3-5 years experience in a Management role.
• Demonstrated experience implementing continual service improvement initiatives (through automation, process enhancements).
• Demonstrated experience in organizational change management (transformational experience).
• Relevant demonstrated experience in domain towers such as Network, Collaboration/Customer experience, Cloud, Security, Data Center.

Workplace type: On-site Working

About NTT DATA

NTT DATA is a $30+ billion business and technology services leader, serving 75% of the Fortune Global 100. We are committed to accelerating client success and positively impacting society through responsible innovation. We are one of the world’s leading AI and digital infrastructure providers, with unmatched capabilities in enterprise-scale AI, cloud, security, connectivity, data centers and application services. Our consulting and industry solutions help organizations and society move confidently and sustainably into the digital future. As a Global Top Employer, we have experts in more than 50 countries. We also offer clients access to a robust ecosystem of innovation centers as well as established and start-up partners. NTT DATA is part of NTT Group, which invests over $3 billion each year in R&D.

Equal Opportunity Employer
NTT DATA is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer with a global culture that embraces diversity. We are committed to providing an environment free of unfair discrimination and harassment. We do not discriminate based on age, race, colour, gender, sexual orientation, religion, nationality, disability, pregnancy, marital status, veteran status, or any other protected category. Join our growing global team and accelerate your career with us. Apply today.

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