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Seeking a highly skilled and experienced professional to join our RXDBaaS leadership team. In this role, you will oversee the India operations and collaborate with the General Manager to develop strategic goals and objectives. You will be responsible for managing customer support, optimizing operational performance, and ensuring exceptional customer experiences. The ideal candidate will have strong leadership and personnel management skills, along with expertise in database management and customer service. A bachelor's degree in a technical field is required.

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This role is part of the RXDBaaS leadership team and reports to the General Manager and receives little instruction on day-to-day work. This position will collaborate on strategy with the General Manager and leadership team and lead the day-to-day functions of the India RXDBaaS operations. Oversees a unit of 140 staff and directly supervises a team of DBA and Engineering Managers.

 

 

Key Duties and Responsibilities

·       Supervise India operations for RXDBaaS including Database Administrators and Engineering staff.

·       Directly supervises teams; recruits, leads, mentors and evaluates personnel performance.

·       Collaborates with General Manager and senior staff to develop the strategic goals and objectives of the RXDBaaS business unit and operationalizes these to deliver fanatical customer experiences.

·       Manages customer support functional activities for all supported products and contributes to overall product and service profitability.

·       Facilitates collaboration between RXDBaaS and a diverse group of technical, operational, and business teams, as well as Rackspace executive leadership, to deliver exceptional products and services.

·       Identifies customer service trends, determines service improvements, implements change by monitoring and analyzing data.

·       Develops and manages service with speed and accuracy to ensure that all client/customer service delivery issues are resolved.

·       Liaises with account, support, and product teams to simplify and enhance the customer experience.

·       Aligns staffing across teams to adequately handle call/ticket volume at any point in time. Monitors productivity metrics and incoming volume metrics.

·       Collaborates with Product Management on new product introductions, such that teams are properly staffed and trained.

·       Maximizes operational performance by providing technical advice, disseminating information, detecting and diagnosing varieties of problems.

·       Identifies risk factors and works collaboratively with key stakeholders to diminish impact on products, services, and operations.

·       Ensures issues are resolved in accordance with SLAs and reduces escalated issues.

·       Directs audits of knowledgebase for continuous improvement of documentation.

·       Creates reporting on issues, resolutions, turnaround times.

·       Solves major customer issues and educates team on best practices.

 

You Have

 

·       Bachelor’s degree required. Preferably in business, computer science, or another technical field.

·       10+ Years of leadership and personnel management experience.

·       5+ Years of demonstrated skill managing operations and services for relational and non-relational databases in a dynamic environment.

·       5+ Years of providing exceptional customer support.

·       Knowledge of best-in-class database monitoring technologies and processes.

·       Expert knowledge in developing customer service department procedures and developing reporting capabilities.

·       Excellent time management, communications, decision-making, presentation, human relations, and organization skills.

·       Ability to communicate technical information and ideas to various stakeholders in a way they will understand.

·       Ability to make appropriate decisions considering the relative costs and benefits of potential actions.

·       Ability to manage large, interdisciplinary, projects to completion.

·       Ability to launch innovative services and products.

·       Ability to own execution without continuous oversight.

·       Ability to lead large, cross-functional, teams to achieve business goals and results.

·       Ability to listen to multiple points of view and synthesize against goals for recommendations.

·       Ability to plan, prioritize and organize effectively and independently.

·       Experience working with Agile engineering teams.

·       Demonstrated ability to work within a diverse global team.


 

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Company

Rackspace Technology

Job Posted

a year ago

Job Type

Full-time

WorkMode

Remote

Experience Level

8-12 Years

Category

Product Development

Locations

Gurgaon, Haryana, India

Qualification

Bachelor

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