About SymphonyAI Financial Services
SymphonyAI Financial Services delivers advanced AI-driven compliance and fraud solutions that empower financial institutions to detect risk, enhance efficiency, and ensure regulatory compliance. As we continue expanding our SaaS offerings across Azure and AWS—including next-generation platforms like DataHub, InvestigationHub, and Sensa—we are looking for a highly capable Service Delivery Manager (SDM) to ensure customers realize the full value of our solutions through world-class service delivery and proactive engagement.
Role Overview
The Service Delivery Manager serves as the primary operational and strategic contact for assigned SaaS customers, accountable for service quality, performance, and satisfaction. You will lead governance routines, oversee incidents and changes, coordinate cross-functional teams, and ensure SymphonyAI delivers secure, compliant, and stable service environments.
This role blends technical acumen, customer centricity, and commercial awareness. You will be expected to operate with a consultative mindset—balancing operational excellence with long-term customer outcomes.
Job Description
Key Responsibilities
1. Customer Success & Engagement
• Act as the trusted operational advisor for customers, ensuring consistent communication and satisfaction.
• Lead weekly backlog reviews, monthly service reviews, and quarterly governance meetings focused on continuous improvement and business value.
• Manage expectations transparently, escalating risks or blockers before they impact service.
• Promote adoption of new SymphonyAI capabilities across InvestigationHub, DataHub, and Sensa.
• Drive CSAT and NPS improvements through proactive engagement and follow-through.
2. Service Operations & Monitoring
• Own the end-to-end delivery of SaaS services within Azure and hybrid environments.
• Utilize observability tools such as Datadog, CloudWatch, and Azure Monitor to proactively identify and mitigate service degradations.
• Lead and coordinate major incident responses and post-incident reviews (PIRs).
• Serve as the on-call escalation contact for high-impact incidents during critical periods.
• Partner with CloudOps and Engineering on performance tuning, monitoring dashboards, and capacity planning.
3. Governance, Reporting & Financial Management
• Deliver structured service governance through scheduled reviews (weekly/monthly/quarterly).
• Prepare and present dashboards on SLA adherence, incident trends, and service availability.
• Manage service credits, change requests, and financial adjustments, ensuring commercial integrity and transparency.
• Ensure compliance with ITIL, ISO, and financial services regulatory requirements.
• Support renewal and expansion discussions by demonstrating operational excellence and measurable value.
4. Continuous Improvement & Change Leadership• Identify opportunities for process automation, stability enhancement, and service simplification.
• Collaborate with Product and Engineering teams to drive roadmap improvements based on customer insights.
• Contribute to the evolution of service offerings, onboarding processes, and runbooks for new Azure-based products.
• Champion best practices across Incident, Problem, and Change Management, ensuring readiness before deployments and upgrades.
5. Stakeholder & Internal Leadership
• Lead internal cross-functional discussions to ensure accountability and timely resolution of issues.
• Represent the customer’s operational voice in internal roadmap and release planning sessions.
• Mentor junior team members and help shape SDM standards for the SaaS business.
• Foster a culture of customer centricity, accountability, and collaborative improvement.
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Required Skills & Experience
• Proven background as a Service Delivery Manager within a SaaS, Cloud, or Managed Services environment.
• Strong technical grounding in Azure (and ideally AWS) architecture and operations.
• Proficiency with monitoring and observability tools (e.g., Datadog, Azure Monitor, CloudWatch, Prometheus).
• Solid understanding of ITIL practices and governance frameworks.
• Experience managing major incidents, service reviews, and customer escalations.
• Excellent communication, stakeholder management, and presentation skills.
• Financial literacy to manage service credits, renewals, and commercial discussions.
• Proven ability to collaborate across engineering, support, product, and success functions.
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Preferred Experience
• Financial services or regulatory technology background (KYC, AML, Fraud, WLM).
• Familiarity with AI-driven analytics platforms such as Sensa or DataHub.
• Experience leading operational excellence initiatives or SaaS transformations.
• ITIL v4 certification, Azure Administrator/Architect certification, or equivalent experience.
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What Success Looks Like
• Customers perceive SymphonyAI as a trusted operational partner.
• Incidents and escalations are resolved efficiently, with measurable reductions in recurrence.
• Governance meetings drive meaningful improvements and reinforce trust.
• SLAs, CSAT, and renewal targets consistently met or exceeded.
• Internal collaboration leads to faster deployments and smoother product releases.
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SymphonyAI Financial Services – Delivering the Future of Compliance Through AI.
This is a Hybrid role, with 3 days in our Toronto office.
About Us
About SymphonyAI
SymphonyAI is building the leading enterprise AI SaaS company for digital transformation across the most critical and resilient growth verticals, including retail, consumer packaged goods, financial services, manufacturing, media, and business IT. SymphonyAI verticals have many leading enterprises as clients. Since its founding in 2017, SymphonyAI has grown rapidly to 2,000 talented leaders, data scientists, and other professionals across 33 countries. SymphonyAI is an SAIGroup company, backed by a $1 billion commitment from Dr. Romesh Wadhwani, a successful entrepreneur and philanthropist.
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