Full Job DescriptionIntroduction
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 Engineering Manager you will plan, lead, and manage engineering teams and releases.
You will take an active role in leading a cross functional team, within the Security Services Development organization, focused on driving execution from definition through successful release and transfer to services/customers.
This is a challenging position working in a very fast paced environment, with the opportunity to work collaboratively with top-notch professionals in the Product management, Engineering, Technology Partners and Support functions to positively influence strategic business outcomes.
You will work in a fast-paced Agile environment to deliver high quality software products according to Security Services Roadmap expectations. Your success will be characterized by your technical and team leadership, your ability to successfully collaborate with key stakeholders and the overall morale of the teams you manage. You should be passionate about technology, a team player, and self-driven.
Responsibilities:
Provide leadership to the core engineering team of product development professionals, to drive all pertinent issues related to the product development life cycle.
Manage, Motivate and Mentor the product development team to deliver high quality products and constantly innovate
Identify and communicate project scope and ensure release milestones and objectives are met with delivering a high quality product release
Keep stake holders from Architecture, Product Management, Customer management informed of key issues and changes which may impact expected results.
Analyze problems and drive long term technology solutions to evolve the product scalability, performance, reliability and supportability
Ensure that projects adhere to the engineering processes and initiate process improvements as needed to improve the quality and productivities
Coach and mentor junior managers/team members
Hire, grow, retain and drive high morale of the engineering team
Required Technical and Professional Expertise
4+ years of first line management experience in a technical role -or- technical team leadership role
5+ years of experience as software developer dealing with enterprise class software using Java, Javascript, REST, serverless computing, Pub/SUB model, SQL, No-SQL, unit testing, Python, NodeJS
5+ years of agile software development and test automation experience
3+ years of experience with virtualization systems like VMware/Openstack/HyperV and any public cloud
Deep knowledge and strong experience in architecting, designing and developing products using enterprise-class Java, IBM CloudPaks and related technologies
Experience of developing reusable software/framework based products dealing with scalability, availability, reliability, testability
Excellent people management skills to guide, mentor and evaluate performance
Preferred Technical and Professional Expertise
Experience building cloud native applications
Experience using Docker or Podman, serverless computing to build and run applications.
Experience using RedHat OpenShift or Kubernetes
Experience using IBM cloudPaks
Experience with devops tooling
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.
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