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The Technical Operations Managers is a 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

• Own end-to-end operational service delivery across the accounts, ensuring all contracted services are delivered in accordance with agreed SLAs, OLAs, contractual obligations and client expectations.
• Act as the primary operational lead for all day-to-day client engagements, operational reviews, service review meetings, governance forums, and escalation management activities.
• Drive operational excellence across multiple technology towers, including Infrastructure, Security, Backup, End User Computing, Cloud, Network, Collaboration and Managed Services.
• Manage operational risks, issues, service degradation, major incidents and client escalations, ensuring timely remediation and executive communication
• Coordinate and govern service delivery teams, ensuring accountability, timely resolution of incidents, requests, problems and change activities.
• Maintain oversight of operational backlogs, ageing incidents, SLA performance, ticket quality, client communications and service improvement initiatives.
• Ensure clients receive regular, meaningful updates on incidents, service requests, projects, risks and operational activities.
• Participate in client strategy, service model, transformation and service improvement discussions to ensure operational alignment with business outcomes.
• Own service reporting, trend analysis, operational reviews and the development of recovery plans where delivery challenges or SLA risks are identified.
• Coordinate internal and external technical resources to ensure successful delivery of operational and project-related activities impacting the customer environment.
• Govern Backup, Disaster Recovery, Business Continuity and Recovery Testing activities, ensuring operational readiness and contractual compliance.
• Act as the operational owner for service continuity, backup governance, recovery processes and infrastructure resilience initiatives.
• Ensure operational compliance with security, audit, access management and governance requirements across client environments.
• Drive continual service improvement initiatives, process optimisation, automation and operational efficiencies to improve service quality and client satisfaction.
• Lead, mentor and develop operational resources while fostering a culture of accountability, ownership, client centricity and service excellence.
• Provide executive-level operational feedback, reporting and recommendations to client stakeholders and NTT DATA leadership teams.
• Ensure operational readiness for audits, service reviews, DR exercises, continuity testing and governance assessments.
• Coordinate third-party vendors and internal support teams to ensure successful service restoration, delivery and platform stability.

Knowledge and Attributes

• Strong service delivery and operational management expertise.
• Excellent stakeholder and client relationship management skills.
• Strong understanding of Managed Services governance, ITIL and operational frameworks.
• Strong commercial awareness and understanding of service contracts and delivery obligations.
• Proven ability to manage client escalations and critical operational incidents.
• Strong analytical and reporting capabilities.
• Excellent communication, presentation and executive engagement skills.
• Strong people leadership, coaching and mentoring abilities.
• Ability to operate effectively across multiple technology domains and service towers.
• Strong focus on operational excellence, client satisfaction and continual service improvement.

Academic Qualifications and Certifications

• Bachelor's Degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, Engineering or related field.
• ITIL Foundation Certification (required).
• ITIL Intermediate / Managing Professional (advantageous).
• Service Management, Project Management or Operational Governance certifications advantageous.

Required Experience

• Minimum 8-10 years' experience in Managed Services, IT Operations or Service Delivery environments.
• Proven experience managing enterprise-scale client environments in the Financial Services industry.
• Demonstrated experience managing multi-technology operational teams.
• Experience running service governance, operational reviews, service improvement programs and client escalations.
• Experience in Backup, Disaster Recovery, Continuity Management and Operational Resilience.
• Experience managing Security Operations, Infrastructure Operations and End User Services.
• Experience driving operational recovery plans, backlog reduction initiatives and SLA improvement programs.
• Experience engaging with senior client stakeholders, executives and third-party vendors.
• Demonstrated success in client retention, service improvement and operational transformation initiatives.

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

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than 70 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.

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