IBM Systems/Infrastructure helps IT leaders think differently about their infrastructure. IBM servers and storage are no longer inanimate - they can understand, reason, and learn so our clients can innovate while avoiding IT issues. Our systems power the world’s most important industries and our clients are the architects of the future. Join us to help build leading-edge technology portfolio designed and optimized for Hybrid Cloud & AI.
India Systems Development Lab (ISDL) is part of IBM Systems/Infrastructure world-wide technology development lab. Established in 1996, the Lab is headquartered in India's Silicon Valley and startup hub - Bengaluru, with a strong presence in Pune and Hyderabad. Developers at ISDL deliver technology innovations across the entire Systems portfolio - z Systems, Power / OpenPOWER Systems and Storage. The team here works across the entire stack from processor design, firmware, operating system to software defined storage. The lab also focuses on innovations, thanks to the creative synergy of the teams. The lab has contributed over 400+ patents in cutting edge technologies and inventions so far.
While computing veers towards cognitive, cloud, mobile, social, and security, the lab has significantly contributed to not just new products focused in these areas, but has also ushered in new development models such as Agile, Design Thinking and DevOps.
We are looking for an experienced management leader who can be part of our team, and help lead and manage teams working on making the IBM Z/Mainframe and LinuxONE Systems to be a first class citizen to run on-prem and cloud native applications on the platform.
As a Program Director, you will primarily be a management leader responsible for IBM business continuity in the areas of Hybrid Cloud and Artificial Intelligence (AI). You will be accountable for the product development, managing delivery schedules and assuring highest quality of release with maximum exploiter/customer satisfaction. You will be part of a global development team and associate with peers and stakeholders based in Germany, USA, and India. Essentially :
- Hiring, development, and retention of the best talent from the industry skilled in Unix/Linux base OS and associated Hybrid Cloud and AI sub-systems
- Focus on Employee engagement, Growth, Skill building, Innovation and well-being towards retaining highly talented resources
- Enable collaboration with open source community and Linux distro partners
- Champion Design Thinking & Agile practices in product design, development & test
- Motivate the team in applying processes and best practices in delivering great user experience and quality products for IBM Server Systems
- Ensure Business Compliance and Integrity is maintained across the team
- Collaborate with teams across multiple geographies and time zones, including development managers, release managers, product managers, peers and stakeholders to share/apply best practices at increasing efficiency in the process/product methodologies
Required Technical and Professional Expertise with relevant experience of 20+ years:
- Demonstrated leadership with atleast 10 years of hands-on technical IT industry experience preferably in the area of Systems product R&D associated with Cloud/AI technologies
- Atleast 5 years of People Management experience, preferably managing Managers as well as Senior Technical resources
- Proven ability to manage and lead/guide/mentor technical team and been part of their talent & career development - essentially a people champion
- Good problem solver – business/technical solutions, conflict resolution, expert negotiator
- Familiar with Enterprise Server (Unix/Linux) Operating System (advantage if familiar with IBM Z Systems as a consumer or user)
- Technically associated prior with Systems Software(Operating Systems, Firmware), and Server/Systems platform architecture
- Familiar with workings of open-source community and atleast one of the Linux distros (Redhat, SuSE, Canonical) interactions
- Familiar with tools to track project & defect progress (RQM, RTC, Clear Quest, Best Quest, github, Jupyter, Jira, Trello, etc.) from program concept to delivery
- Experienced in driving process transformation and innovation in the organization
- Drive Agile, DevOps, and Design Thinking methodologies at work to streamline the delivery process
- Proven ability to work effectively in a global team environment, forming & managing multiple projects across geographies
- Proven command over the English language, both written and verbal
- Solid understanding of systems platform, hardware & architecture
- Good understanding Operating Systems internals/kernel (Process Management, Memory Management, Virtualization, Scheduling, I/O (Networking & Storage), Security, Performance, etc.
- Understanding of on-prem vs cloud deployments and associated with atleast one of IBM Cloud, GCP, AWS, Azure. Familiar with Kubernetes, RHOCP, RHACM, DevOps, Python, GO Language, Docker/Container, Jenkins, Ansible, etc.
- Understanding of AI/ML model deployments, AI lifecycle, hands-on experience on deploying AI/ML models on cloud. Familiarity withAI methodologies including Data Science, Generative AI, AI Compiler/Runtime, Machine learning, Deep learning, and Natural language processing, Data Handling, etc.
- Working experience with IBM Mainframes : Z & LinuxONE systems as a consumer ot user