Software Support Team Lead

About the role

We’re looking for a Software Support Team Lead to guide, mentor and support our team of Software Support Engineers in delivering best-in-class support to our customers.

In this role, you’ll be responsible for building a high-performing team, ensuring smooth day-to-day support operations, and helping our engineers do their best work. You’ll work closely with the Head of Product Support and Support Operations Manager to drive operational improvements, monitor performance against SLAs and KPIs, and provide valuable insights into team successes and challenges.

You’ll also act as a key escalation point for support engineers, leading responses to incidents and service outages, and collaborating cross-functionally to reduce commercial risk and improve the overall customer support experience.

This is a great opportunity for someone who combines people leadership, technical understanding, and a data-driven mindset to improve processes, develop talent, and shape an excellent support function.

Because many of our products allow customers to build their own functionality using Groovy and/or JavaScript, a good understanding of coding is essential for this position.

What you'll be doing

People leadership

• Lead, mentor and develop a team of highly skilled Support Engineers
• Set clear expectations and provide regular feedback through 1-2-1s and performance reviews
• Support the professional development of your team members
• Manage team workload, priorities and planned leave to help ensure SLA and KPI targets are met
• Support hiring activities and help maintain effective resources
• Create training materials that help the team confidently handle new and complex issues
• Help resolve team challenges and conflicts in a constructive way

Support leadership

• Take ownership of customer outcomes and ensure support tickets are resolved to a high standard
• Act as an escalation point for tickets or situations involving commercial risk
• Lead incident management processes, support the team during critical incidents, and run post-mortem reviews
• Identify opportunities to improve the experience for customers, the business and the support team
• Build strong business cases for ideas and influence stakeholders to drive positive change
• Build strong relationships with Customer Success, Product and Development teams
• Share data-driven voice-of-the-customer insights across the business
• Translate business and product strategy into actionable updates for the team
• Chair stand-ups, facilitate workshops and lead team meetings
• Foster a collaborative, respectful and inclusive team culture

Support operations

• Work with support metrics such as CSAT, FRT, RoR, SLA performance and ticket volumes
• Collaborate with leadership and cross-functional teams to meet KPIs, SLAs and OKRs
• Monitor support queues and ensure work is delivered in line with best practices and standards
• Analyse trends and identify opportunities to improve team performance and customer experience
• Highlight quality concerns and operational challenges, providing clear recommendations to management
• Work with the Support Operations Manager to improve tooling and automations
• Assess the impact of process changes and share feedback with relevant stakeholders
• Contribute to knowledge base content, internal documentation and training materials

What we're looking for

• Experience managing customer support software such as

JSM, Zendesk

or similar

• Hands-on experience using, supporting or administering Atlassian products, including

Jira, Confluence and/or Bitbucket

• Familiarity with

REST APIs

and

Java APIs

, ideally including Atlassian APIs and how vendor plugins interact with them

• Experience writing code, preferably in

Java/Groovy

or

JavaScript/TypeScript

• Experience working with products hosted on cloud platforms such as

AWS

or

Azure

• Excellent written, verbal and visual communication skills in English

A few nice to haves

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or equivalent practical experience
• Knowledge of

Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC)

processes

• Previous

incident management

and/or

project management

experience

• Familiarity with

ISO/security standards

• Awareness of

AI best practices and safety

Not ticking every box? That’s totally okay! Studies show that women and people of colour might hesitate to apply unless they meet every single requirement. At ScriptRunner, part of TAG, we’re dedicated to creating a diverse and welcoming team. If you’re passionate about this role and keen to learn and grow with us, we encourage you to apply, even if you don’t have everything that's listed just yet.

Drop us your application, we’d love to hear from you!

What to expect

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Equal opportunities for everyone

At https://www.theadaptavistgroup.com/ The Adaptavist Group, we are committed to promoting a diverse and inclusive community and believe this positively impacts both the creation of our innovative products and our delivery of bespoke solutions to our global customers and our own unique culture. We encourage all qualified applicants, regardless of age, disability, race, sexual orientation, religion or belief, sex, gender identity, pregnancy and maternity, marriage, and civil partnership status.

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