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Introduction

A career in IBM Software means you’ll be part of a team that transforms our customer’s challenges into solutions.

Seeking new possibilities and always staying curious, we are a team dedicated to creating the world’s leading AI-powered, cloud-native software solutions for our customers. Our renowned legacy creates endless global opportunities for our IBMers, so the door is always open for those who want to grow their career.

IBM’s product and technology landscape includes Research, Software, and Infrastructure. Entering this domain positions you at the heart of IBM, where growth and innovation thrive.

Your role and responsibilities

As a Software Development Manager, you’ll manage software development, enhance product experiences, and scale our team’s capabilities. You’ll manage careers, streamline hiring, collaborate with product, and drive innovation. We seek proactive professionals passionate about team growth, software architecture, coding, and process enhancements. Mastery of frameworks, deployment tech, and cloud APIs is essential as well as adaptability to innovative technologies.

 

Your primary responsibilities include:

- Solution Development: Lead the development of innovative solutions to enhance our product and development experience, effectively contributing to making our software better. Own and drive the quality of multiple product components.

- Strategic Partnership: Partner with product teams to brainstorm ideas and collaborate on delivering an exceptional product, contributing to the overall success of the organisation.

- Technical Direction: Provide technical guidance by actively participating in architectural discussions, developing code, and advocating for new process improvements to drive innovation and efficiency.

- Team Leadership: Lead, mentor, and manage the engineering teams working on IBM Security Verify on Cloud related features/functionality fostering a collaborative and innovative environment.

- Project Management: Oversee the planning, execution, and delivery of development projects, ensuring they meet the highest standards of quality and performance. Coordinate across teams to align with product goals and timelines. Manage product backlog, customer defect reports and customer escalation from the development perspective 

- Technical Guidance: Provide strong technical leadership in the design and development of features/functionality that enhance the Verify SaaS offering While ensuring the implementation of best practices in coding, testing, and deployment.

- Stakeholder Collaboration: Work closely with cross-functional teams, including product management, QA, and Ops, to ensure the successful Sprint delivery and deployments.

- Career Development: Manage highly skilled team of professional software engineers . Support the growth and development of team members by providing feedback, identifying training opportunities, and helping them achieve their career goals.

- Resource Management: Allocate resources effectively to meet project goals, balancing team workloads, and managing project budgets where necessary.

Required education
Bachelor's Degree
Preferred education
Master's Degree
Required technical and professional expertise

- 12+ years of software development experience including 5 years in leadership roles.

- 2 years of management experience including people management

- Experience designing, building, and managing distributed and scalable SaaS offerings based on REST APIs, microservices, and containers.

- Experience in back-end and/or front-end development using Java/J2EE, GoLang, JavaScript frameworks, HTML, TypeScript, CSS and knowledge of UI/UX design principles.

- Experience with database systems including SQL or NoSQL data stores

- Proficiency in tools like gitHub/Jira

- Excellent knowledge in Scrum and/or Agile methodologies.

- Excellent communication skills, assertiveness and leadership qualities. Experience managing multiple stakeholders in across planning, tracking and overall execution

- Excellent people skills, including negotiating, recruiting, motivating, and team-building

- Growth mindset: Ability to quickly learn new technologies and processes.

- Highly organised and able to balance multiple priorities

- Dedication to transparency: ability to report issues and risks and find solutions

- Strong verbal and written communication skills and the ability to work in a fast-paced environment with remote office locations

- Exposure to Kubernetes/OpenStack or related cloud-native technologies

- Exposure working with CI/CD processes, DevOps methodologies and related tools.

- Experience and passion in technically coaching and guiding junior developers covering system design, code reviews etc.

Preferred technical and professional experience

- Knowledge of emerging technologies such as Artificial Intelligence (AI), Machine Learning (ML)

- Knowledge of C++

- Familiarity with Mobile App development.

- Experience fostering product innovation.

ABOUT BUSINESS UNIT

IBM Software infuses core business operations with intelligence—from machine learning to generative AI—to help make organizations more responsive, productive, and resilient. IBM Software helps clients put AI into action now to create real value with trust, speed, and confidence across digital labor, IT automation, application modernization, security, and sustainability. Critical to this is the ability to make use of all data, because AI is only as good as the data that fuels it. In most organizations data is spread across multiple clouds, on premises, in private datacenters, and at the edge. IBM’s AI and data platform scales and accelerates the impact of AI with trusted data, and provides leading capabilities to train, tune and deploy AI across business. IBM’s hybrid cloud platform is one of the most comprehensive and consistent approach to development, security, and operations across hybrid environments—a flexible foundation for leveraging data, wherever it resides, to extend AI deep into a business.

YOUR LIFE @ IBM

In a world where technology never stands still, we understand that, dedication to our clients success, innovation that matters, and trust and personal responsibility in all our relationships, lives in what we do as IBMers as we strive to be the catalyst that makes the world work better.

Being an IBMer means you’ll be able to learn and develop yourself and your career, you’ll be encouraged to be courageous and experiment everyday, all whilst having continuous trust and support in an environment where everyone can thrive whatever their personal or professional background.

 

Our IBMers are growth minded, always staying curious, open to feedback and learning new information and skills to constantly transform themselves and our company. They are trusted to provide on-going feedback to help other IBMers grow, as well as collaborate with colleagues keeping in mind a team focused approach to include different perspectives to drive exceptional outcomes for our customers. The courage our IBMers have to make critical decisions everyday is essential to IBM becoming the catalyst for progress, always embracing challenges with resources they have to hand, a can-do attitude and always striving for an outcome focused approach within everything that they do.

 

Are you ready to be an IBMer?

ABOUT IBM

IBM’s greatest invention is the IBMer. We believe that through the application of intelligence, reason and science, we can improve business, society and the human condition, bringing the power of an open hybrid cloud and AI strategy to life for our clients and partners around the world.

 

Restlessly reinventing since 1911, we are not only one of the largest corporate organizations in the world, we’re also one of the biggest technology and consulting employers, with many of the Fortune 50 companies relying on the IBM Cloud to run their business. 

 

At IBM, we pride ourselves on being an early adopter of artificial intelligence, quantum computing and blockchain. Now it’s time for you to join us on our journey to being a responsible technology innovator and a force for good in the world.

IBM is proud to be an equal-opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, caste, genetics, pregnancy, disability, neurodivergence, age, veteran status, or other characteristics. IBM is also committed to compliance with all fair employment practices regarding citizenship and immigration status.


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