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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.

 

Required general skills

 

·      Software development

·      Team and people management

·      Fluent in written and spoken English

·      Mentoring

·      Agile software development culture

·      Project management

·      Customer interaction 

·      Ability to deep dive into advanced technology 

·      A passion for technology and software development

·      Strong critical thinking, technical and problem-solving skills

·      Good collaboration with diverse, global teams

·      Excellent communication and presentation skills

 

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.

 

As a Software Development Manager, your primary responsibility will be to 
lead a development team, but this is a hands-on role. You will be individually responsible for developing and maintaining several modules of the code, and in parallel you will mentor and support less-experienced developers to enable the team collectively to deliver value-add features and fixes for each release. Together with your team, you will share responsibility for advanced customer support which requires strong debugging and problem-solving skills. In addition, you will have local management responsibility for other development resources working on different projects. 

 

For this position we need someone who can lead by example, who brings proven full stack software development skills (Java, JavaScript, React, Flink, Kafka, OpenSearch, software design, security and architecture) and who has a solid knowledge of cloud technologies, networking and Kubernetes. 

 

Your primary responsibilities include:

·      Providing management supervision for several activities 
running in parallel, addressing issues/concerns with speed, and 
enabling corrective actions.

·      Ensuring end-to-end development activities are properly sized, 
planned and tracked to meet delivery expectations supporting focus
areas such as plan-interlock across functional teams & stakeholders (including dependencies, risks, mitigations) 

·      Working as a team to team to own and deliver technical solutions

·      Keeping the focus on innovative solutions that meet desired outcomes while respecting business integrity and meeting client commitments.

·      Cultivating a team of high-performing technical talent with the priority on delivering value.

 

Required education
Bachelor's Degree
Preferred education
Master's Degree
Required technical and professional expertise
  • Full stack development (6+ years) - Java, JavaScript, React, Flink, Kafka, OpenSearch, software design, security and architecture, security/SPbD 
  • Comprehensive understanding and hands-on mastery of containerized solutions including Docker and Kubernetes, as well as devOps practices, CICD, build, cloud technologies and networking
  • Excellent people management and communication skills
  • Source Control Management (GitHub)
  • Project management, planning and tracking 

 

Preferred technical and professional experience
  • Experience of OpenShift
  • Experience in architecting, deploying, and managing applications in cloud or hybrid infrastructures
  • Stakeholder management, conflict resolution and prioritization

 

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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