S4S4 — Lead Support Specialist
Lead/Team Lead
Leader of support team. Oversees support processes and personnel. Coordinates escalations and ensures SLAs are met.
What this level means
Lead specialist: owns process improvement and mentors the support team.
- Scope
- Team process and quality
- Autonomy
- Works independently; owns improvements
- Complexity
- Cross-case patterns and process gaps
- Impact
- Team-level quality and efficiency
- Decision rights
- Owns process and quality decisions for the team
- Leadership
- Mentors and coordinates the support team
- Typical experience
- 5–8 yrs
What you'd do
- Oversees support processes
- Coordinates escalations
- Ensures SLAs are met
- Manages support team
- Develops team capabilities
- Lead support team
- Coordinate issue escalations
- Monitor SLA compliance
- Develop team skills
- Plan technical strategies
Skills, knowledge & tools
- Team leadership
- Technical planning
- Scripting and automation
- Strategic management
- Performance Analysis
- Team management
- Technical planning
- Automation tools
- Strategic IT management
- Performance metrics
- Leadership in technical planning
- Competency in scripting/automation
- Team management
- Strategic planning
- Performance monitoring
What good looks like
- Several years of experience
- ITIL for process management preferred
- Strong leadership skills
Common titles
Lead Information Technology SupportLead/Team Lead
What it pays
Market-pay benchmarks for this family × level are being recalibrated across all survey sources and will return shortly.
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