Software Development Manager

As a Technical Software Development Manager in the Watson Orchestrate team, you will be leading and motivating a full-stack team in a fast-paced environment developing the next generation of AI-infused platform features using the latest Saas and Microservices architecture. Working in an agile environment, you drive multi-disciplinary squads within the large global development product group. Your work will involve close collaboration with Architects, DevOps Engineers, Designers, Offering Managers across our global organization. Required education Bachelor's Degree Preferred education Master's Degree Required technical and professional expertise 12+ 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 Excellent people skills, including negotiating, recruiting, motivating, and team-building Growth mindsetAbility to quickly learn new technologies and processes. Highly organized and able to balance multiple priorities Dedication to transparencyability 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 Exposure to Kubernetes/OpenStack or related cloud-native technologies Exposure working with CI/CD processes, DevOps methodologies and related tools. Experience and passion in technically coaching and guiding junior developers covering system design, code reviews etc. Preferred technical and professional experience Exposure to AI technologies like LLM, Langraph, Langchain would be an added advantage.