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IT Service Transition Lead

IT SupportIT SupportContractRemoteLeadTeam 1,001-5,000Since 2003H1B No SponsorCompany SiteLinkedIn

Location

United Kingdom

Posted

3 days ago

Salary

£600 / day

Seniority

Lead

No structured requirement data.

Job Description

IT Service Transition Lead

Focus Group

Role Description We're looking for an experienced IT Service Transition specialist to join us immediately on a 3-month contract, supporting a large-scale, multi-site hospitality customer with network deployment spanning Wi-Fi remediation, SD-WAN (Software-Defined Wide Area Network), and hosting workstreams. This is an inflight, high-profile programme, so you'll need to get up to speed quickly and pick up existing workstreams with minimal ramp-up time. You'll own the transition of services from delivery/project phase into live operational support, ensuring a smooth handover with minimal disruption to a high-complexity, high-profile client. - Leading end-to-end service transition planning and execution - Coordinating handover between project delivery, engineering, and service delivery teams - Managing transition documentation, RAID logs, and go-live readiness criteria - Acting as a key point of contact for client stakeholders throughout transition - Identifying and mitigating transition risks across a multi-site network - Providing transition governance, reporting, and executive-level updates to programme boards, service leadership, and customer stakeholders - Confirming the target operating model is ready before go-live, including support ownership, resolver groups, SLAs (Service Level Agreements), OLAs (Operational Level Agreements), and escalation paths - Planning and coordinating knowledge transfer sessions for service desk, NOC (Network Operations Centre), engineering, and service management teams - Owning service readiness assessments across people, process, tooling, monitoring, documentation, support model, knowledge management, and supplier dependencies - Driving operational acceptance and formal service acceptance into business-as-usual (BAU) support - Planning and managing Early Life Support (ELS) and hypercare periods, ensuring a smooth transition into steady-state operations - Ensuring transition activity is aligned to change, release, and CAB (Change Advisory Board) governance, including go-live approvals, implementation, rollback, and communication plans - Ensuring operational tooling, monitoring, alerting, asset data, CMDB (Configuration Management Database) records, and service dependencies are fully validated ahead of service acceptance Qualifications - A proven Service Transition background within an MSP (Managed Service Provider) environment - Strong process, transition, and governance discipline - Solid working knowledge of cloud and networking technologies, including Microsoft, Meraki, and Fortinet - Experience delivering into enterprise or mid-market accounts - Strong understanding of ITIL Service Transition, Service Validation & Testing, Knowledge Management, Change Enablement, and Service Acceptance - Comfortable managing complex, multi-stakeholder transitions under time pressure, with the ability to hit the ground running on live projects - Experience managing transitions involving multiple suppliers and customer stakeholders - Experience working with ServiceNow, CMDB management, and operational monitoring platforms Requirements - Desirable: Hospitality or multi-site retail sector experience - ITIL or formal service transition qualifications - Exposure to SD-WAN and network security transition Benefits - This is a 3-month contract with an immediate start, paying up to £600 per day (dependent on experience).

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