WHO WE ARE:

For over 20 years, Global Relay has set the standard in enterprise information archiving with industry-leading cloud archiving, surveillance, eDiscovery, and analytics solutions. We securely capture and preserve the communications data of the world’s most highly regulated firms, giving them greater visibility and control over their information and ensuring compliance with stringent regulations.
Though we offer competitive compensation and benefits and all the other perks one would expect from an established company, we are not your typical technology company. Global Relay is a career-building company. A place for big ideas. New challenges. Groundbreaking innovation. It’s a place where you can genuinely make an impact – and be recognized for it.
We believe great businesses thrive on diversity, inclusion, and the contributions of all employees. To that end, we recruit candidates from different backgrounds and foster a work environment that encourages employees to collaborate and learn from each other, completely free of barriers.

YOUR ROLE:

Are you ready to lead a team that drives growth and innovation? As Manager of Data Services at Global Relay, you’ll provide direction, guidance, and strategic insight to shape the department’s future. You’ll create and execute strategies, align roadmaps with the wider business, and be a strong advocate for Data Services across the organization.
In this role, you’ll lead a talented team of client-facing members and technical specialists, balancing both the commercial and technical sides of the business. You’ll ensure top-quality customer service, optimize workflows, and manage all departmental resources - including recruitment, learning and development, performance management, and career progression.
This is a dynamic role for someone with excellent people and communication skills, who can quickly grasp technical concepts and confidently collaborate with teams across Global Relay. If you thrive on leadership, problem-solving, and driving results, this is your opportunity to make an impact.

YOUR RESPONSIBILITIES:

People

• Lead by example, fostering a positive team culture and strong relationships though approachability and support
• Use leadership as a tool for growth by coaching, mentoring and developing future leaders
• Manage all aspects of departmental human resourcing and learning development, including recruitment, performance management and career progression of team members. Ensure adequate headcount, staffing and training are forecasted and in place to meet current and upcoming major initiatives
• Act as an escalation and authoritative point of contact for other departments at Global Relay. Actively handles internal and customer related conflict, and resolves them with emotional intelligence and consideration of the department and organizational ecosystem
• Perform regular touchpoints with departmental Team Leads to provide status updates, ensure issues are raised, and visibility provided. Proactively work with the Team Leads to identify priority items and have them addressed in the required timeframe
• Attending regular sync-ups with fellow managers and senior leaders from other teams that impact or are impacted by Data Services. Build and maintain strong relationship with relevant peers to optimize cross departmental knowledge transfer and workflow

Process

• Create, drive and evolve the department’s strategic vision. Translating organizational roadmap and initiatives into actionable and structured departmental goals and tasks
• Lead the execution of any change initiatives to best position the department to respond to future trends and needs by developing and communicating a strategic roadmap
• Owning the end-to-end accountability for the delivery of department services. Be the authoritative expert for the department on commercial, operational and technical components.
• Mitigate and manage risk; look for and execute on opportunities to drive departmental growth and its impact on other parts of the business
• Mine data to effectively measure value, unearth issues and opportunities for innovation. Generate and assess department metrics, with the aim of reviewing operational performance and providing transparency to track progress and determine improvement needs
• Work successfully with a wide variety of cross-functional internal teams to advocate for and resolve customer issues
• Collaborate with senior management to contribute to the product and business roadmap and ensure the delivery of complete and assigned solutions

Technology

• Understand the design, business logic, and technical architecture of Global Relay platform components and how those components interact with and impact the department. Own and lead the strategic development of new features and enhancements as required by the department
• Communicate feature requests into requirements, models, workflow diagrams, user stories, acceptance criteria, and other suitable artifacts
• Work with Product & Program Management, Development, and other relevant departments to identify and coordinate cross-component dependencies throughout the development process. Actively remove obstacles blocking progress and ensure initiatives are delivered within schedule
• Ensure relevant new product releases are complimented with timely announcements, training, documentation, and short/long-term support. Ensure product updates and requirements are cascaded into the department’s system architecture, knowledge base and to client-facing documentation
• Work with Global Relay’s Enterprise Data Services Team to develop an understanding of their infrastructure and facilitate integration with Data Services operational workflow. Ensure the scope of those engagements are clearly documented with all stakeholders
• Work with the leadership, technology architecture, application development, implementation and operations teams to help Data Services achieve optimal production environment that meets current and future business needs and objectives
• Assess, adopt and integrate new systems and technologies as per evolving security and audit requirement