Senior Technical Services Manager

Ascend Technologies • Little Rock, AR

10d • Onsite

About The Position

This position leads IT Managed Services within the Technical Services organization as a player/coach — responsible for both managing the team and contributing hands-on at a senior systems engineering level. Management responsibilities include overseeing and executing strategic division initiatives, managing team staffing and schedules, helping the team prioritize daily workload, and serving as the escalation point for complex issue resolution. When needed, this role actively participates in the delivery of technical work — applying foundational senior systems engineering skills to design, implement, and support the environment alongside the team, and modeling the standard of quality and professionalism expected of the group.

Requirements

• 10 + total years of progressively responsible leadership roles relating to technical services in the managed services or consulting industry.
• Strong background in ITIL and Knowledge Management processes, preferably with a focus on Change management.
• Experience and proficiency with information technology initiatives and has “been there, done that” experience.
• Demonstrated strength in analytical thinking, problem-solving, and IT quality management.
• Excellent organizational, verbal and written communication skills
• Thoroughly and accurately understand issues and analyze the problem in a systemic fashion.
• Experience working on a managed services or outsourced team is preferable.

Nice To Haves

• Preferred education: Bachelor's Degree.
• Experience working on a managed services or outsourced team is preferable.

Responsibilities

• Lead, coach, and develop multidisciplinary Technical Operations, Network Engineering, and Systems Engineering teams supporting a 24x7 healthcare environment.
• Ensure the availability, performance, security, and supportability of network, server, cloud, identity, endpoint, Microsoft 365, backup, and related infrastructure services.
• Participate in major incident response, prioritize patient-care and business-continuity impacts, communicate with client leadership and ensure root cause identification and remediations are completed.
• Oversee incident, problem, change, request, configuration, capacity, patching, vulnerability remediation, and lifecycle management practices.
• Partner with the client CIO and IS Director, and clinical, business, security, privacy, compliance, application, and vendor stakeholders to translate priorities into actionable plans.
• Manage service levels, operational reporting, contractual commitments, risks, escalations, and continual improvement plans.
• Develop and execute infrastructure roadmaps, refreshes, migrations, resilience improvements, asset controls, budgets, and vendor performance plans.
• Coordinate production changes, maintenance windows, on-call coverage, documentation, and contingency planning to minimize disruption to critical healthcare operations.

Benefits

• The salary for this position is commensurate with experience, skills, and qualifications.
• diversity, equity, and inclusion are not only fundamental values but also powerful drivers of innovation, growth, and success.
• We are committed to fostering an environment where every individual feels valued, respected, and empowered.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior