Technical Support Team Lead
Lead technical support operations, escalation quality, service performance and team development across customer and application-support workflows.
Job description
The Technical Support Team Lead will coordinate service-desk and application-support activity while driving consistent ownership and continuous improvement.
Key responsibilities
- Manage support queues, priorities, escalations and team workload.
- Review incident quality, service metrics and recurring problem patterns.
- Coach support staff and maintain knowledge and runbook standards.
- Coordinate with engineering and client teams on major incidents and releases.
- Drive service-improvement actions to measurable closure.
Qualifications
- 6–9 years of IT support or service-management experience, including team leadership.
- Strong incident, escalation and stakeholder-management capability.
- Experience with ITSM tooling and operational reporting.
Preferred qualifications
- ITIL certification or equivalent service-management experience.
- Application-support or cloud-support background.
- Experience leading client-facing support teams.
Benefits & employment terms
- Compensation, leave, pension and any role-specific benefits are confirmed during the recruitment process and stated in the written offer.
- Any client-site, travel, security-screening or right-to-work requirements are confirmed before appointment.
Nature of working style
- Work is organised around defined delivery outcomes, documented responsibilities, peer review and clear escalation paths.
- Hybrid or client-site attendance varies by engagement and is confirmed before assignment.
Location
London-based with UK client-site collaboration where required.
