Introduction
Our technical managers at IBM are the foundation of our strategic initiatives to lead skilled software development teams to design, code, test, and provide industry-leading solutions that make the world run today. At IBM, you will use the latest software development tools, techniques and technologies and work with leading minds in the industry to build products, path-breaking technologies, and solutions that you can be proud of.Do you have the skills and passion for building the future? If yes, join a niche team at IBM Software Labs focused on building an AI-driven Digital Labor platform, Watson Orchestrate, an AI based digital employee platform that that can automate today’s businesses. Look for more details at https://www.ibm.com/products/watson-orchestrate
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.
- Team Growth and Management: Manage the career growth of team members, scale hiring and development processes, and foster a culture of continuous improvement within the team.
- Strategic Partnership: Partner with product teams to brainstorm ideas and collaborate on delivering an exceptional product, contributing to the overall success of the organization.
- Technical Direction: Provide technical guidance by actively participating in architectural discussions, developing code, and advocating for new process improvements to drive innovation and efficiency.
Preferred Education
Master's Degree
Required Technical And Professional Expertise
10+ 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. Exposure in system design
- Excellent communication skills, assertiveness and leadership qualities. Experience managing multiple stakeholders in across planning, tracking and overall execution
- Highly organized 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
Preferred Technical And Professional Experience
- Exposure to Kubernetes/OpenStack or related cloud-native technologies
Exposure working with CI/CD processes, DevOps methodologies and related tools.
Experience in working with AI and ML technologies.
- Experience and passion in technically coaching and guiding junior developers covering system design, code reviews etc.