Accenture

User Support Specialist Senior Manager

Accenture$91K — $184K *
Education, Government & Non-Profit
8 - 10 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree in IT, Cybersecurity, Computer Science, Information Systems, Business Administration, or related field, or equivalent experience.
  • 10+ years of IT experience with significant end-user support in enterprise environments.
  • Expert knowledge of user support, service desk operations, and customer service best practices.
  • Familiarity with troubleshooting hardware, software, network, and access-related issues across multiple channels.
  • Active Secret clearance is mandatory.

Responsibilities

  • Establish and enforce support standards and SLAs aligned with organizational needs.
  • Ensure effective troubleshooting for user issues, escalating complex incidents as needed.
  • Drive consistency in user interactions across various support channels.
  • Maintain and govern an accurate, user-friendly knowledge base for support documentation.
  • Coordinate user training initiatives for better proficiency with systems and tools.
  • Analyze operational metrics and user feedback to identify trends and drive service improvements.
  • Collaborate with cross-functional teams to improve support workflows and service delivery.

Benefits

  • Comprehensive health plans including medical, dental, and vision coverage.
  • Retirement savings plans with company match.
  • Generous paid time off and holidays policy.
  • Flexible work arrangements to promote work-life balance.
  • Professional development opportunities, including training and certification programs.
Full Job Description
You Are:

The User Support Specialist Senior Manager will lead, coach, and develop a team ensuring strong performance, clear expectations, and a high-quality user experience. They will oversee day-to-day operations of the user support function, including request intake, triage, ticket management, and escalation practices across ServiceNow, Jira, and related tools.

The Work:
  • Establish and enforce support standards, SLAs, and operational processes aligned with organizational requirements.
  • Ensure team members deliver effective troubleshooting for hardware, software, network, and access-related issues, escalating complex incidents to the appropriate technical teams.
  • Drive quality and consistency in user interactions across phone, email, chat, and in-person support
  • Own the development, maintenance, and governance of the support knowledge base, ensuring accurate, current, and user-friendly documentation.
  • Coordinate and support user training initiatives to enhance user proficiency with common systems, tools, and best practices
  • Collect, analyze, and report on operational metrics, user feedback, and recurring issues to identify trends and drive continuous service improvement
  • Stay current with supported technologies, organizational standards, and industry best practices, ensuring the support team remains aligned with evolving needs.
  • Partner with cross-functional teams to refine support workflows, improve system usability, and enhance overall service delivery.

Here's What You Need:
  • Bachelor's degree in IT, Cybersecurity, Computer Science, Information Systems, Business Administration, or related field, or equivalent experience.
  • 10+ years of IT experience, with significant experience providing end-user support in enterprise or mission-critical technical environments
  • Expert knowledge of end-user support, service desk operations, incident management, request fulfillment, and customer service best practices.
  • Experience with one or more of the following:
    • Resolving user requests and troubleshooting hardware, software, network, access, endpoint, and collaboration tool issues
    • Supporting multi-channel user communications, including phone, email, chat, walk-up, remote support, and ticketing queues
    • Documenting user interactions, troubleshooting steps, resolution actions, and escalation details in ticketing systems such as ServiceNow, Jira, Remedy, or similar platforms
    • Supporting user account management, password resets, access requests, group memberships, onboarding, offboarding, and permission troubleshooting
    • Creating, updating, and using knowledge base articles, SOPs, job aids, and user-facing support documentation
    • Coordinating with system administration, network, cybersecurity, application, endpoint, asset management, and operations teams
    • Supporting federal, regulated, or security-sensitive environments is required.
  • Ability to serve as the senior user support lead and escalation point for complex user support issues.
  • Must hold an active Secret clearance.

Bonus Points If:
  • Must meet applicable DoD requirements.
  • Experience supporting Windows, macOS, mobile devices, virtual desktops, collaboration tools, VPN, MFA, printers, and standard enterprise applications.
  • Experience with ITSM/ticketing tools such as ServiceNow, Jira Service Management, BMC Remedy, or similar platforms.
  • Experience supporting identity and access management tools such as Active Directory, Azure AD/Entra ID, Okta, or similar platforms.
  • Experience troubleshooting Microsoft 365, Teams, Outlook, SharePoint, OneDrive, browsers, endpoint software, and common productivity tools.
  • Experience supporting endpoint management and remote support tools such as Intune, SCCM/MECM, JAMF, Tanium, BeyondTrust, Bomgar, or similar tools.
  • Experience supporting incident, request, problem, change, escalation, and knowledge manual

The Extras:
  • US Citizenship Required
  • The ability to obtain and maintain a government security clearance


As required by local law, Accenture Federal Services provides reasonable ranges of compensation for hired roles based on labor costs in the states of California, Colorado, Hawaii, Illinois, Maryland, Massachusetts, Minnesota, New Jersey, New York, Washington, Vermont, the District of Columbia, and the city of Cleveland. The base pay range for this position in these locations is shown below. Compensation for roles at Accenture Federal Services varies depending on a wide array of factors, including but not limited to office location, role, skill set, and level of experience. Accenture Federal Services offers a wide variety of benefits. You can find more information on benefits here. We accept applications on an on-going basis and there is no fixed deadline to apply.

The pay range for the states of California, Colorado, Hawaii, Illinois, Maryland, Massachusetts, Minnesota, New Jersey, New York, Washington, Vermont, the District of Columbia, and the city of Cleveland is:

$91,300-$184,900 USD

About Accenture

Accenture plc is a multinational professional services company that provides services in strategy, consulting, digital, technology, and operations. The company has more than 537,000 employees serving clients in more than 120 countries. Accenture operates across five business segments: Communications, Media & Technology; Financial Services; Health & Public Service; Products; and Resources. The company is headquartered in Dublin, Ireland, and has offices worldwide.
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$173.8 billion
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Net Income
$5.2 billion
Founded
1989
5 Year Trend
+11.2%
Revenue
$44.7 billion
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