Head of Service Delivery (Global)
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About the role
The Role
Are you a seasoned leader ready to drive 24x7 resilience and guarantee 99.99% availability for mission-critical software? As Head of Service Delivery, you will lead our global support organization, championing ITIL best practices and cutting-edge AIOps and self-healing automation to meet strict SLAs. In this high-impact, customer-focused, and C-level facing role, you will manage high-performing teams, resolve major incidents, and directly influence our product roadmap to maximize customer satisfaction and global growth.
What You'll Do
- Lead, mentor, and evaluate Technical support and AI Ops engineers.
- Forecast staffing needs and manage hiring to maintain optimal 24x7 coverage.
- Plan and Manage functional budget for Digital Operations Team
- Design continuous training programs to upskill engineers on application and deployment architecture
- Global Delivery Model: Ensure 24x7 Availability for uninterrupted application support.
- Lead major incident management processes to minimize downtime for critical software.
- Drive accountability for application uptime metrics, ensuring key performance metrics like Average Speed of Answer (ASA), First Contact Resolution (FCR), and Mean Time to Resolve (MTTR) stay strictly "green".
- Act as the primary point of contact for high-priority client and stakeholder escalations.
- Champion disaster recovery and business continuity plans to guarantee zero-downtime support readiness.
- Drive Automation: Champion AIOps, self-healing automation, and AI-driven ticketing triage to reduce manual L1 workloads.
- ITSM Excellence: Govern organizational adherence to ITSM practices, driving continuous improvements in Problem and Change Management.
- Cross-Functional Synergy: Partner with Engineering, DevOps, and Product heads to influence product roadmaps using support data insights.
- Champion ITIL adoption and implementation across the organization
- Ensure consistent quality in the customer support and digital operations
- Drive the culture of ‘Quality First’ across digital operations
- Lead quality improvement initiatives focused on delivering consistently better customer experience for all solutions
- Define Support Strategy, long-term vision and operational roadmap for global 24x7 technical support environments.
- Own the operational budget (Opex), optimizing resource allocation across onshore, offshore, and nearshore hubs.
- Present high-level operational health, risk assessments, and SLA compliance metrics directly to C-level executives.
- Connect technical support outcomes to broader customer retention, revenue growth, and corporate scaling goals.
Functional Leadership
Operations & SLA Management
Process Innovation & Continuous Improvement
Quality Assurance
Strategic Leadership & Governance
Collaborating with
- Global operations
- Product Engineering - L3 support
- CloudOps
Profile and Skills
- Master’s or bachelor’s degree in computer science or STEM field
- 15+ years in technical operations, with 5+ years directing large-scale, multi-site 24x7 support organizations.
- Proven history managing support for enterprise-grade, high-volume software applications with 99.99% uptime demands.
- ITSM Professional or equivalent Agile/DevOps leadership certifications.
- Deep expertise in ITSM platforms like Jira Service Management, ServiceNow, or Remedy.
- ITIL v4 Expert/Foundation certification
- Experience of managing large-scale Managed Service Provider (MSP) contracts.
- Strong conceptual grasp of enterprise cloud architectures (AWS/Azure/GCP), microservices, and observability platforms.
- Crisis Management: Exceptional calm and clarity under pressure during high-severity system outages.
- Strong verbal and written communication skills for presenting technical issues to non-technical stakeholder
Experience & Education
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