Development Manager

Introduction

Software Developers at IBM are the backbone of our strategic initiatives to design, code, test, and provide industry-leading solutions that make the world run today - planes and trains take off on time, bank transactions complete in the blink of an eye and the world remains safe because of the work our software developers do. Whether you are working on projects internally or for a client, software development is critical to the success of IBM and our clients worldwide. At IBM, you will use the latest software development tools, techniques and approaches and work with leading minds in the industry to build solutions you can be proud of.

Your Role and Responsibilities

As a Software Development Manager on the watsonx.data team, your role will involve actively participating in the planning, design, and execution phases of cloud service development for WatsonX.. In this role you will be able to express your passion for people and process, you will work closely with other cross-functional leaders to understand goals and vision and you will translate goals and vision into engineering objectives for your team. You will produce estimates to support decision making and feature prioritization on high-level projects. You will manage projects, track dependencies and guide your team towards their delivery objectives. You will nurture innovation and celebrate out-of-the box thinking. You will facilitate collaboration as well as self-organization within the team. You will manage entire life cycles of projects, from concept, through release, to production and its support. You will manage the day-to-day priorities for individual engineers, driving high levels of quality and productivity. You will build and grow your team through acquiring, up-training and retaining the highest level talent. You will mentor, support and coach individual engineers for their professional, technical and personal growth.

What You'll Do:

• You'll work in a dynamic, collaborative environment to understand requirements, design, code and test innovative applications, and support those applications for our highly valued customers.

• You'll employ IBM's Design Thinking to create products that provide a great user experience along with high performance, security, quality, and stability.

• Manage a team of approximately 10 software engineers

• Collaborate with our development, devops and leadership teams worldwide full responsibility for the product's development and worldwide support

Required Technical and Professional Expertise

• 15+ years of experience in software development

• Five years experience in managing development teams and people management

• Planning, Tracking, stakeholder management, conflict resolution, prioritisation

• Track record of building teams that deliver on business commitments.

• Thorough understanding of the Agile development process.

• Manage a team of approximately 10 software engineers

• Strong and intuitive communication skills.

• Extensive experience in developing and leading data integration initiatives.

• In-depth understanding of cloud-based data platforms and technologies.

• Working knowledge on Virtualization, containerization technologies, containers orchestration software (Kubernetes and OpenShift) and cloud platforms

• Working experience on cloud services (Amazon Web Services, IBM Cloud, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud Platform)

• Proficiency in Python and other scripting languages for tool development and automation..

• Working knowledge on Development and operation of fully managed SaaS services

• Strong analytical, problem-solving, and decision-making skills.

• Excellent communication and leadership abilities, capable of mentoring and collaborating within a team environment.

Preferred Technical and Professional Expertise

• Proven experience with complex cloud based products .

• Familiarity with Hive metastore and open data formats (Iceberg, Delta Lake, Hudi)

• Open-source data engines: Presto, Spark

• Data governance management

• Open-source software development

About Business UnitIBM's Cloud and Cognitive software business is committed to bringing the power of IBM's Cloud and Watson/AI technologies to life for our clients and ecosystem partners around the world. IBM provides you with the most comprehensive and consistent approach to development, security and operations across hybrid environments-with complete software solutions for business and IT operations, development, data science, security, and management. Our experts and software capabilities help organizations develop applications once and deploy them anywhere, integrate security across the breadth of their IT estate, and automate operations with management visibility. With IBM, you also have access to new skills and methods, governance and management approaches, and a deep ecosystem of industry experts and partners.

This job requires you to be fully COVID-19 vaccinated prior to your start date and proof of vaccination status will be required before your start date. During the Onboarding process you will be asked to confirm your vaccination status, in case you are unable to get vaccinated for any reason, you can let us know at that stage. Please let us know if you are unable to be vaccinated due to medical or religious reasons. IBM will consider such requests on a case by case basis subject to submission of required proof by the candidate before a stipulated date.

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