Software Development Manager

Introduction

A career in IBM Software means you’ll be part of a team that transforms our customers challenges into solutions. Seeking new possibilities and always staying curious, we are a team dedicated to creating the world’s leading AI-powered, cloud-native software solutions for our customers. Our renowned legacy creates endless global opportunities for our IBMers, so the door is always open for those who want to grow their career. IBM’s product and technology landscape includes Research, Software, and Infrastructure. Entering this domain positions you at the heart of IBM, where growth and innovation thrive.

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.

Required technical and professional expertise

· 8+ years’ experience with people management including experience with HR systems and employee types: Full-time and contractors

· 8+ years’ experience running multiple teams or squads simultaneously.

· Experience managing technical employees

· Understanding of and experience project managing software development lifecycle, software test principles and execution, software test automation, agile development methodologies, scrum etc.

· Experience with DevOps, Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment

· Experience with Cloud security, data privacy and compliance requirements (FedRAMP, FS and SOC2)

· 10+ years software development

· Demonstrated technical competence on software lifecycle topics.

· Have a working knowledge of building automation to deploy infrastructure and exposure with CI/CD tools and continuous integration

· Exceptional verbal, written, and teaming skills, organizational abilities and demonstrated multi-tasking abilities.

Preferred technical and professional experience

· Experience with Cloud infrastructure: network (Forigate, Juniper) and gateways, VPC, IBM Cloud BM/VSI/OneCloud/ Security and compliance for regulated workloads, firmware, driver

· Experience with tools: Aha, GitHub, ServiceNow, Trello

· Experience with: CI/CD (Tekton pipelines preferred), Python/Django, Postgres, Java/Springboot

· Experience with BCDR, HA, SZR/MZR

· Experience with Redhat Linux and Openshift

· Experience with NetBox

· Experience with Message Queues (Kafka and RabbitMQ Preferred)

· Experience with workflow automation (Zeebe Preferred)