Team Lead, Professional Services

Description
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Business Unit: Professional Services
Report to: Supervisor/Manager, Professional Services
Supervisory Responsibility: No
Classification: Exempt
Minimal Travel Requirement: 20%+
Date Last Updated: August 2024
Job Summary:
The Team Lead, Professional Services is responsible for assisting the Project team and providing knowledge and expertise for a range of project implementations and extended client engagements. The Team Lead, Professional Services will also act as an escalation point as they are technical subject matter expert. The ideal candidate has a high level of attention to detail, takes initiative, and can drive results for customer requirements. The Team Lead, Professional Services will be responsible for maintaining the organization's standard for customer service and delivering projects with the highest attention to compliance and quality. The ability to manage the stress of client-down situations is an absolute must, and it is paramount to always provide excellent customer service. The Team Lead, Professional Services is empowered to internally coach, mentor, and provide daily directional support for the Professional Services team
Requirements
Responsibilities:
Engineer, Professional Services

• Project Utilization of 70% billable hours per week, including all dispatch and project work directly involved for the client.
• As requested, travel onsite to client offices to provide services supporting the project team. Days not spent travelling will be worked either onsite at the office or in the agreed upon remote location.
• Provide superior service to customers and clients.
• Work closely with the project team to complete the defined project objectives outlined in the project statement of work.
• Collect and analyze project data to create status reports against the established project milestones and recommend future actions.
• Review reports of production, malfunction, and maintenance to determine or address issues.
• Assess the status of projects against the planned schedule, identify actual or potential problems, and facilitate solutions to ensure projects are completed on time.
• Manage and prioritize personal utilization in project work to ensure that hours are being directed towards productive, billable work.
• Other related duties as assigned, including dispatch work on client sites, and managing service tickets that are assigned to the project team queue, and responding in an agreed upon timeframe.
• Analyzes and troubleshoots ticket logs and tracks the nature and resolution of problems and can perform all levels of routing incident analysis.
• Acts as a first level technical escalation point to assist associate engineers with troubleshooting technical challenges and providing solutions, escalating further to senior engineers when necessary.
• Interacts and works directly with multiple advanced engineer groups and vendors to escalate technical issues, provide client updates, and drive incidents to resolution often collaborating between more than one group at a time if needed.

Team Lead

• Serves as the first escalation point for both internal team members and engage upper management when necessary.
• Serves as the Team Lead for the Professional Services team members.
• Assists Professional Services Engineers by providing daily work direction and/or task management.
• Participates in interviews for new Professional Services candidates, as needed.
• Collects data and provides feedback to management on process improvements and areas of concern.

Experience
Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities:

• Strong oral and written communication skills
• Effective time management and multi-tasking skills
• Maintains the ability to stay organized and be detail-oriented
• Demonstrates a passion for solving problems or helping others and take the initiative in driving continuous improvement/execution excellence
• Exceptional organizational skills, including the ability to self-manage and multi-task effectively and accurately in a fast-paced and dynamic environment
• Expert level Microsoft Windows /Active Directory and related services
• Server hardware configuration, including RAID, NIC teaming
• Exchange 2010, 2013, 2016, 2019 - Management, troubleshooting, and migrations
• Microsoft 365 (Exchange Online, SharePoint, Azure AD & Intune)
• Hypervisor (VMware ESXi, Microsoft Hyper-V, Citrix XenServer)
• Network Design (Firewall, Router, Switch configurations)
• WAN configuration including BGP and MPLS
• Terminal Services, Remote Desktop Services, or Citrix XenApp/Desktop
• Microsoft SQL 2012 and later
• Wireless Network technologies including cloud managed products
• Enterprise Security Products (CrowdStrike, Microsoft Defender, Cylance)
• Confident and comfortable with client facing activity. Demonstrates the ability to follow up on client feedback to drive outcomes

Experience

• 6+ years of experience as an Assistant Project Engineer or Project Engineer.
• 5 years' work experience as a Network Administrator installing, configuring, maintaining, and troubleshooting network, data center and security technologies.
• Bachelor's degree in a related discipline or equivalence of professional work
• Active Directory experience including DNS, DHCP, NTFS, File/Printer Share, Group Policy
• Experience in implementation and management of VoIP technology
• Authentication technology experience, SSO/SAML, MFA, Zero Trust

Certificates, Licenses, Registrations:

• Advanced certifications in cloud and network technologies preferred, including Microsoft 365 and Azure

Compensation Package
ITS offers a full benefits package, including:

• Rich Medical and prescription plans
• Dental & Vision
• Paid Holidays and Flexible Paid Time Off
• 401K/401K Roth with Safe Harbor matching
• Stock Appreciation Rights
• Company-paid life insurance, long-term and short-term disability insurance
• Company-paid mental health support & financial wellness services
• FSA for medical and dependent care
• HSA option with compatible medical plan
• Company-paid training, materials, and exams
• Performance-based bonuses

IT Solutions is an equal employment opportunity employer that provides opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws.