SENIOR TIER I AGENT (QUALITY AND MENTORING)

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Empower AI is seeking a Senior Tier I Agent (Quality and Mentoring) to serve as the senior technical decision-maker and lead analyst within Tier I on an enterprise IT Service Desk supporting a Department of War agency with approximately 13,000 users across multiple security enclaves. The Senior Analyst decides resolution strategy for the most complex Tier I issues, owns shift-level queue management and quality assurance decisions, designs the knowledge and procedures that raise First Contact Resolution and Tier 0 deflection, and leads the trend analysis that feeds Proactive Problem Management and the Customer Experience Roadmap. The role partners with the Service Desk Supervisor and Manager on performance reporting, quality, and analyst development and acts as shift lead in the Supervisor's absence. This is a salaried, FLSA-exempt position in which you will independently analyze situations, determine the appropriate course of action, and exercise discretion and independent judgment on matters of significance to the program and its customers.

• Serve as the senior technical decision-maker within Tier I, analyzing the most complex incidents and service requests to determine root cause and business impact, and deciding resolution strategy, priority, and escalation across Tier II, Tier III, and specialized resolver groups.
• Own shift-level queue management decisions: assess real-time contact volumes and ticket aging, rebalance work across analysts, and direct actions to protect PL1-PL4 SLAs, First Contact Resolution targets, and the acceptable quality level for aged tickets.
• Design and administer the Tier I quality assurance review process, evaluating tickets and customer interactions against standards, enforcing the Customer-Confirmed Ticket Closure process, and determining coaching and corrective actions for analysts.
• Lead analysis of Tier 0/I trend and escalation data to identify recurring and high-impact problems, and prepare After-Action Reviews, Root Cause Analyses, and Problem Resolution Action Plans with recommended permanent solutions.
• Design and govern knowledge base articles, standard operating procedures, and Virtual Agent (chatbot) content, deciding which issues are moved to Tier 0 self-service and how Tier I procedures should change to raise First Contact Resolution.
• Define and refine escalation criteria, resolver group routing rules, and Tier I enablement recommendations in coordination with Tier II, endpoint engineering, communications, and application teams.
• Analyze and validate Tier 0/I performance data for the Customer Support Metrics Dashboard, Monthly Customer Support Activity Report, and Quarterly XLA Performance Report, interpret CSAT and Customer Effort Score results, and recommend service improvements to leadership.
• Develop analyst onboarding and training programs, evaluate analyst readiness, and act as shift lead in the Supervisor's absence, including approving and publishing pre-approved situational awareness alerts.

• HDI Support Center Team Lead, HDI Desktop Support Technician, or ITIL 4 Foundation / Practitioner certification.
• Experience using ServiceNow (incident, request, knowledge, CMDB, Service Catalog, Virtual Agent) or a comparable enterprise ITSM platform.
• Experience working across multiple security enclaves (NIPRNet, SIPRNet, JWICS) and with classified system handling procedures.
• Familiarity with customer experience (CX) measurement, including CSAT, Customer Effort Score (CES), and experience level agreements (XLAs).
• Experience supporting Department of War (DoW), DoD, or other compliance-driven Federal IT environments.
• Experience with AI-enabled service desk capabilities (ServiceNow Virtual Agent, AI Ops, predictive analytics) and measuring Tier 0 deflection.
• Experience contributing to Problem Management, Root Cause Analysis, and continuous improvement programs.

All hiring and promotion decisions at Empower AI are based on merit to bring the best talent available to contribute to our firm’s overall success. It is the policy of Empower AI not to discriminate against any applicant for employment, or employee because of age, color, sex, disability, national origin, race, religion, or veteran status. Empower AI is a VEVRAA Federal Contractor.