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The Shift Lead is a senior member of the Central Support Team and is responsible for overseeing the smooth operation of a four‑person shift supporting a wide range of bespoke applications and services used across Worldpanel by Numerator. Each shift consists of one Shift Lead and three 2nd Line Application Support Engineers. In this role, you will provide advanced 2nd Line technical support while also leading and coordinating your shift team. You will act as the primary escalation point for complex incidents, manage major incidents during your shift window, and ensure consistent delivery of high‑quality support across global users and systems. This is a shift-based position operating on a 28‑day rotating Pitman schedule across both days and nights. You will ensure operational coverage, maintain SLA adherence, and oversee incident, service request, and application issue handling throughout your shift. The ideal candidate has strong technical troubleshooting capabilities, experience working within ITSM/ITIL environments, and demonstrated leadership qualities within a support or application engineering function.
The Shift Lead is a senior member of the Central Support Team and is responsible for overseeing the smooth operation of a four‑person shift supporting a wide range of bespoke applications and services used across Worldpanel by Numerator. Each shift consists of one Shift Lead and three 2nd Line Application Support Engineers. In this role, you will provide advanced 2nd Line technical support while also leading and coordinating your shift team. You will act as the primary escalation point for complex incidents, manage major incidents during your shift window, and ensure consistent delivery of high‑quality support across global users and systems. This is a shift-based position operating on a 28‑day rotating Pitman schedule across both days and nights. You will ensure operational coverage, maintain SLA adherence, and oversee incident, service request, and application issue handling throughout your shift. The ideal candidate has strong technical troubleshooting capabilities, experience working within ITSM/ITIL environments, and demonstrated leadership qualities within a support or application engineering function.
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Acting as the Shift Lead for a team of three 2nd Line Application Support Engineers.
Owning the end‑to‑end management of incidents during your shift, including triage, assignment, escalation, and resolution tracking.
Leading Major Incident Management (MIM) when required, coordinating communication between stakeholders, technical teams, and management.
Providing hands-on 1st and 2nd Line technical support across a diverse set of applications and services.
Overseeing shift workload, ensuring effective prioritisation and SLA compliance.
Providing guidance, mentoring, and real‑time support coaching to the 2nd Line Engineers on shift.
Ensuring all incidents and requests are logged, updated, and documented clearly in the ITSM system (e.g., Jira).
Serving as the shift’s primary point of contact for cross‑functional teams including Dev, QA, Infrastructure, SME groups, and 1st Line support.
Conducting handover briefings between shifts to maintain continuity and visibility of ongoing or high‑priority issues.
Upholding and aligning the team’s work with ITIL practices (Incident, Problem & Change Management).
The shift will be based on a 28-day rotating pitman model:
Shift pattern and will be rotating between the Early, Middle and night shifts so for example will do 3 days on the early shift, have 2 off, then 3 days on middle shift, 2 off, 3 on night.
Shift
IST
Early
06:00 - 15:00
Middle
14:00 - 23:00
Night
22:00 - 07:00
Experience leading support or technical teams (formal or informal leadership).
Ability to allocate work, manage priorities, and supervise the performance of engineers during the shift.
Provide coaching and guidance to less-experienced team members.
Confident in taking ownership of major incidents, driving resolution, and coordinating multi‑team responses.
Ensuring timely stakeholder communication and accurate incident updates.
Ability to remain calm, structured, and decisive under pressure.
Ensuring shift adherence to SLAs, KPIs, and support processes.
Reviewing ticket quality, ensuring clear, consistent documentation.
Supporting continuous improvement initiatives and identifying process enhancements.
Strong knowledge of Windows Server and Windows OS
Basic–intermediate Linux skills
Strong SQL proficiency, often including: Writing SELECT queries Joining tables Tracing application issues to data problems
Writing SELECT queries
Joining tables
Tracing application issues to data problems
Familiarity with databases such as Microsoft SQL Server, Oracle, MySQL, or PostgreSQL
DNS, DHCP, TCP/IP
Understanding how applications communicate across networks
Proxy/firewall impact on applications
Not required, but highly valued:
PowerShell
Bash
Python
Basic automation of repetitive tasks
Postman or similar for API testing
Fiddler/Wireshark for traffic analysis
Browser dev tools for web application issues
Explaining technical issues clearly to non-technical users
Producing good documentation and clear incident notes, including RCA’s and change documentation.
Strong English verbal and written language skills as will be interacting with global teams.
User empathy and professionalism
Managing expectations around SLAs and timelines
Working with other teams to help them escalate effectively
Collaborating with Dev, QA, Infrastructure teams or other SME’s for deeper issues
Mentoring lower tiers and uplifting supportability.
Numerator is 5,800 employees strong. We have the confidence to be real and embrace what makes each Numerati unique. Our diverse experiences, ideas and backgrounds fuel our innovation.
Being part of the Numerati means that we’ll take care of you! From our Recharge Days, maximum flexibility policy, wellness resources for employees and their families, development opportunities and much more — we’re always finding ways to better support, celebrate and accelerate our team.
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