**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 Manager, Platform Support is a management role responsible for overseeing and managing the platform support team, thereby ensuring the reliable operation and support of company platform infrastructure. This role plays a crucial role in leading the team, driving service excellence, and ensuring the timely resolution of platform-related issues whilst fostering a collaborative and innovated team culture focused on operational excellence. **Key responsibilities:** + Provides strong leadership and guidance to a team of platform support professionals, including support engineers and technicians. + Sets clear performance expectations, conducts regular performance evaluations, and fosters a collaborative and high-performance work culture. + Manages and coordinates the resolution of platform-related incidents and problems. + Ensures timely and effective incident response, escalation, and root cause analysis to minimize the impact on business operations. + Implements preventive measures and drives continuous improvement in incident management processes. + Ensures understanding of company platform, Cloud technologies and troubleshooting practices to ensure successful resolution of challenging technical situations. + Acts as a customer advocate, prioritizing and managing assigned incidents and escalations in queue. + Engages with the cross functional teams like operations and engineering to build, drive and improve tools and processes for quicker issue resolution. + Mentors less experienced team members in the various technologies. **To thrive in this role, you need to have:** + Advanced expertise in leading and managing a team of platform support engineers. + Ability to handle client/user escalations ensuring they are timeously and effectively resolved. + Ability to inspire and motivate a team to achieve high performance. + Advanced technical background and understanding of platform infrastructure, operations, and support processes. + Advanced expertise in managing service delivery and adherence to SLAs. + Excellent problem-solving and decision-making abilities, with a focus on delivering high-quality support services. + Advanced expertise with metrics and reporting, using data to drive continuous improvement. **​Academic qualifications and certifications:** + Bachelor’s degree or equivalent in Information Technology or Computer Science or related field. + Relevant ITIL certification. **Required experience:** + Advanced experience in leading platform support teams, with progressive responsibilities and at least a couple of years in a leadership capacity. + Advanced experience providing customer facing technical support. + Advanced experience providing web development support is highly desirable. + Advanced experience working with the ServiceNow platform (ITSM, ITOM, CSM and FSM). **Workplace type** **:** Hybrid Working **About NTT DATA** NTT DATA is a $30+ billion trusted global innovator of business and technology services. We serve 75% of the Fortune Global 100 and are committed to helping clients innovate, optimize and transform for long-term success. We invest over $3.6 billion each year in R&D to help organizations and society move confidently and sustainably into the digital future. As a Global Top Employer, we have diverse experts in more than 50 countries and a robust partner ecosystem of established and start-up companies. Our services include business and technology consulting, data and artificial intelligence, industry solutions, as well as the development, implementation and management of applications, infrastructure, and connectivity. We are also one of the leading providers of digital and AI infrastructure in the world. NTT DATA is part of NTT Group and headquartered in Tokyo. **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.