Job Description
Job Summary
- The E-Business Channels Support Lead oversees the support and operational stability of digital business channels (web, mobile, API/partner integrations). This role ensures service reliability, prompt issue resolution, proactive monitoring, and effective stakeholder communication. The Support Lead will also mentor the team, manage access to business-critical systems (including databases), and drive process improvements to enhance customer experience and operational efficiency.
Job Details
Operational Leadership
- Own the availability, performance, and operational resilience of all e-business channels.
- Serve as the primary escalation point for high-severity incidents and cross-channel outages.
- Ensure adherence to SLAs, OLAs, and incident response standards. Lead incident command during major outages, coordinating DevOps, Engineering, Product, and Business teams.
- Oversee controlled access to production systems, cloud platforms, admin portals, and databases in line with governance policies.
DevOps & Cloud Oversight
- Provide technical oversight of AWS and/or Azure environments supporting digital channels.
- Review monitoring, logging, and alerting configurations to ensure proactive detection of issues.
- Partner with DevOps and Engineering teams on release readiness, deployment strategies, and rollback plans.
- Validate cloud operational procedures executed by the Support Officer.
Automation & Continuous Improvement
- Drive an automation-first support strategy, reducing manual interventions and repeat incidents.
- Review recurring incidents and approve automation or configuration-based solutions.
- Champion the enhancement of admin portals, dashboards, and operational tooling to enable faster resolution and self-healing.
- Translate support insights into structured improvement initiatives and backlog items.
- Track and report measurable benefits from automation (e.g., MTTR reduction, incident volume reduction).
Team Leadership & Capability Development
- Lead, mentor, and develop all members of the team.
- Define clear runbooks, playbooks, and escalation procedures.
- Set performance objectives aligned with reliability, automation, and service excellence.
- Build a culture of accountability, learning, and continuous improvement.
Stakeholder & Partner Engagement
- Act as the interface between Technology, Business Units, and external API partners.
- Provide clear communication on incidents, risks, and service performance to senior stakeholders.
- Support partner onboarding, operational readiness, and issue resolution.
Requirements
- Strong SQL skills with experience querying complex databases for transaction support and analysis.
- Hands-on experience with support tools (ticketing systems like Jira, Managed Engine), monitoring platforms (New Relic, Sentry, CloudWatch, ArgoCD, Graylog), and API management.
- Excellent understanding of web and mobile application architecture
- Experience with RESTful APIs and troubleshooting partner integrations
- Ability to interpret logs, trace requests, debug problems, and explain technical issues to non-technical stakeholders.
- Leadership or mentoring experience; ability to prioritize tasks across multiple channels.
- Strong communication, problem solving, customer service orientation, and decisionmaking skills.
- Familiarity with security best practices, data access governance, and compliance standards (e.g., ISO27001, NDPR).
- Experience in incident management frameworks (ITIL).
- Knowledge of cloud platforms (AWS, Azure) and serverless or containerized environments (Kubernetes, Docker).
- Innovation & Automation Leadership Expectations
- Ability to think beyond incident resolution and design operational improvements.
- Strong appreciation of how admin portals, configuration tools, and workflows can eliminate support bottlenecks.
- Capability to challenge existing processes and recommend smarter, scalable alternatives.
- Experience working with product and engineering teams to deliver automation outcomes.
- Comfort translating operational pain points into structured solutions and business value.