Software Guidance & Assistance, Inc. (SGA), is searching for a Senior IT Operations & Service Delivery Manager for a CONTRACT assignment with one of our premier Financial Services clients in Dallas, TX .
This is a hybrid position currently requiring onsite attendance 2 days per week in 2026 . Candidates must be comfortable with the possibility that the onsite requirement may increase to 4-5 days per week in 2027 .
The Senior IT Operations & Service Delivery Manager will support business continuity by minimizing operational disruptions related to technology services and infrastructure. This individual will serve as a senior technology advocate for the business, driving service delivery, infrastructure initiatives, operational improvements, and remediation efforts across centralized technology and engineering teams.
The successful candidate will be strongest in IT Operations and Service Delivery , with broad knowledge of enterprise infrastructure technologies such as network, cloud, servers/compute, storage, and related technology services . This individual does not need to be the engineer performing hands-on troubleshooting, but must have sufficient technical depth to engage engineering teams effectively, ensure the right technical resources are involved, challenge proposed solutions when necessary, and confirm that solutions align with enterprise policies, standards, and business requirements.
The role also requires strong infrastructure project delivery, operational resilience, technology risk, business advocacy, executive communication, and cross-functional leadership capabilities.
Responsibilities
IT Operations & Service Delivery Management
- Serve as a senior point of accountability for technology services supporting the business, ensuring operational issues, service gaps, and recurring problems are addressed comprehensively and effectively.
- Act as an escalation point for complex technology incidents, ensuring the appropriate infrastructure, engineering, application, cybersecurity, vendor, and business resources are engaged to drive timely resolution and service restoration.
- Ensure proposed technical solutions and remediation activities align with enterprise policies, architecture standards, technology controls, and operational requirements.
- Represent and advocate for the technology needs of the business when working with centralized technology organizations and service providers.
- Proactively identify gaps, weaknesses, and areas for improvement across technology services and work with centralized technology teams to drive remediation and service enhancements.
- Oversee service delivery for infrastructure-dependent services, ensuring alignment with Enterprise standards, ITIL practices, regulatory requirements, and internal control frameworks.
- Influence operational metrics, service levels, service quality, and performance expectations to ensure technology providers are delivering to required standards.
- Review enterprise technology initiatives and changes to proactively identify and mitigate risks to business stability and operational continuity.
- Manage and influence third-party vendors and service providers to ensure technology services consistently meet business and Enterprise requirements.
- Champion service improvement initiatives and accountability mechanisms to improve system availability, operational performance, and overall service quality.
- Take ownership of remediation activities where centralized technology teams are not demonstrating adequate leadership, accountability, or execution.
IT Infrastructure Project Management
- Provide Project and Service Delivery Management for the IT infrastructure project portfolio, ensuring adherence to the Enterprise Delivery Framework and established governance standards.
- Own infrastructure implementations from planning through execution, ensuring delivery within approved budgets and in alignment with enterprise policies, standards, and strategic priorities.
- Partner with business and technology leadership to assess infrastructure needs, identify improvement opportunities, develop funding proposals, and support successful project execution.
- Manage project budgets, risks, issues, dependencies, remediation activities, and delivery status.
- Coordinate across network, cloud, server, storage, application, engineering, cybersecurity, operations, and business teams to drive successful infrastructure delivery.
- Report portfolio and project status to senior management, including risks, issues, dependencies, financial performance, and recommended actions.
- Develop and present business cases, improvement proposals, project updates, and technology recommendations to senior management using clear and effective executive-level presentations.
Business Continuity, Disaster Recovery & Resilience
- Support the Disaster Recovery and Resilience program in alignment with Enterprise standards, local regulatory obligations, and internal audit expectations.
- Coordinate the development, execution, and validation of Disaster Recovery plans to ensure timely and structured restoration of IT services.
- Oversee and report on Disaster Recovery testing for shared infrastructure and application services, including compliance with Enterprise technology standards.
- Collaborate with IT and business stakeholders to ensure recovery strategies are robust, scalable, and aligned with business requirements.
- Partner with Development, Application, Infrastructure, and Engineering teams to ensure application and infrastructure solutions meet resiliency design and testing standards.
- Track resiliency gaps, testing deficiencies, remediation plans, and associated risks through resolution.
Required Skills
- Bachelor's degree in Information Technology, Cybersecurity, or a related discipline.
- Extensive experience in IT Operations and Service Delivery , preferably supporting a large enterprise technology environment.
- Strong understanding of enterprise infrastructure technologies, including network, cloud, servers/compute, storage, and related infrastructure services .
- Ability to work credibly with technical teams, understand proposed solutions, identify gaps, ask the right technical questions, and ensure solutions align with enterprise standards and policies.
- Demonstrated experience driving infrastructure projects and implementations, including budgets, risks, dependencies, governance, delivery, and remediation.
- Experience acting as an escalation point for complex technology incidents, service disruptions, and operational issues.
- Demonstrated ability to identify technology service gaps and proactively drive improvements across centralized technology and service-provider organizations.
- Experience representing and advocating for business technology needs with shared services, global technology organizations, engineering teams, and service providers.
- Strong understanding of ITIL-based service management practices, including Incident, Problem, Change, Availability, Service Level Management, and Continual Improvement.
- Experience managing or influencing service providers, vendors, operational metrics, service levels, and performance expectations.
- Experience with disaster recovery, business continuity, operational resilience, and related remediation activities.
- Strong understanding of cybersecurity principles and technology risk management frameworks.
- Working knowledge of industry standards and best practices such as ISO 22301, NIST, and COBIT.
- Strong project management, governance, reporting, financial tracking, and data analysis skills.
- Strong executive communication and presentation skills, including the ability to package technology initiatives, risks, recommendations, and business cases into clear and effective PowerPoint presentations.
- Demonstrated ability to work independently, take ownership, and proactively drive issues and initiatives without requiring constant direction.
- Ability to operate effectively across multiple technology disciplines and influence teams without direct authority.
Preferred Skills
- Experience within Financial Services, Banking, Capital Markets, or another highly regulated enterprise environment.
- Experience supporting a large-scale or global enterprise infrastructure organization.
- Prior hands-on or technical experience within infrastructure engineering, network, cloud, server, storage, or related technology disciplines.
- Strong Major Incident Management / Problem Management experience.
- Technology risk, audit, regulatory, or compliance experience.
- Experience driving service improvement, availability, resiliency, and operational-performance programs.
- Experience developing executive-level presentations, business cases, funding proposals, and technology recommendations.
- PMP, ITIL, CBCP, or related professional certification.
- Experience working within centralized or global technology organizations and advocating for the needs of a specific business unit.
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