About the Role
Elite is seeking a Principal Technical Support Analyst to join their Tier 2 technical support function. This role is responsible for diagnosing and resolving complex cloud, API, and platform issues, guiding a team of technical experts, and partnering with Engineering and Product to ensure high-quality customer resolutions.
Responsibilities
- Lead and grow a high-performing team of Tier 2 technical support engineers.
- Own end-to-end resolution of technical incidents across cloud services, APIs, and customizations.
- Communicate clearly and confidently with executive-level customer stakeholders during escalations.
- Partner with our Technical Product Manager to prioritize issues, improve triage, and reduce engineering interruptions.
- Drive problem management by identifying root causes and recurring incident patterns.
- Help implement AI-powered triage and deflection to improve speed and scale.
- Build playbooks, runbooks, and processes that elevate our support quality.
- Perform other duties as assigned to support departmental and company objectives.
Requirements
- Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Information Systems, Engineering, or a related technical field, or equivalent education and practical experience.
- 5+ years in SaaS technical support, operations, or escalations engineering.
- 2+ years managing technical support or incident-response teams.
- Extensive experience speaking directly with CIOs, CTOs, senior business leaders, and enterprise architects.
- Strong technical troubleshooting skills across cloud platforms, APIs, and observability tools.
- Experience guiding customers through incidents with empathy, clarity, and confidence.
- Excellent communication skills—able to simplify complex technical issues for any audience.
- Ability to travel up to 10% as business needs require.
- Role requires the following physical capacity: Light: up to 20 lbs – occasional lifting or movement of light objects.
- Must be legally authorized to work in United Kingdom; Elite does not provide employment sponsorship for this position.
Skills
- Cloud platforms
- APIs
- Observability tools
- Technical troubleshooting
- Customer incident guidance
- Communication
Location
- UK Time Zone (GMT/BST)
Work Type
- Hybrid
- Remote
Experience Level
- 5+ years in SaaS technical support, operations, or escalations engineering
- 2+ years managing technical support or incident-response teams
Education Level
- Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Information Systems, Engineering, or a related technical field, or equivalent education and practical experience.
Benefits
- Competitive Compensation Package
- Comprehensive Healthcare Coverage (Health, Dental, Vision)
- Retirement Savings Plan with an Employer Contribution
- Professional Development Opportunities
- Tuition Reimbursement
- Parental Leave
- Time Off
- Wellness Initiatives
- Employee Assistance Program
- Generous Global Parental Leave
- Calm, free premium subscription
- Employee Discount Program
About the Company
- Elite is the trusted automation platform for law firm operations across most of the world’s largest and most successful law firms.
- Elite has guided firms through every technology shift and today delivers the only cloud-native SaaS platform that unifies financial, invoice, time, and data management into a single system of action.
- With embedded AI, predictive analytics, and integrated payments, Elite’s products enable firms to shorten billing cycles, reduce write-offs, and unlock firm-wide insights, making financial operations the foundation for law firm innovation and growth.
- Elite Technology embraces an employee-centric, flexible work model that empowers you to do your best work in the environment that suits you.
- Our corporate offices are located in New York City, Los Angeles, Costa Rica, and the Philippines.
- Our diverse global team spans the U.S., Canada, U.K., Costa Rica, the Philippines, and Australia.
Equal Opportunity
- As a global business, we rely on diversity of culture and thought to deliver on our goals.
- To ensure we can do that, we seek talented, qualified employees in all our operations around the world regardless of race, color, sex/gender, including pregnancy, gender identity and expression, national origin, religion, sexual orientation, disability, age, marital status, citizen status, veteran status, or any other protected classification under applicable law.
- We are proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer providing a drug-free workplace.
- We also provide reasonable accommodation for qualified individuals with disabilities and for sincerely held religious beliefs in accordance with applicable law.
