Software Development Manager

Introduction

At IBM, work is more than a job - it's a calling: To build. To design. To code. To consult. To think along with clients and sell. To make markets. To invent. To collaborate. Not just to do something better, but to attempt things you've never thought possible. Are you ready to lead in this new era of technology and solve some of the world's most challenging problems? If so, lets talk.

Your Role and Responsibilities

We are looking for an enthusiastic and talented Software Development Manager to join our Security Threat Management team to lead a team of software professionals working to improve our cloud native platform through automation and quality programs. You will work as part of the Security Threat Management team with a focus on the following key responsibilities:

• Lead a team of engineers to meet release dates along with committed deliverables on-time and with quality, plan and manage component design, coding and functional testing to drive quality of deliverables.

• Balance priorities and work assignments across team members, following agile processes to meet delivery schedules.

• Work as part of a global leadership team to coordinate deliveries across multiple teams

• Interface with product management and offering managers to understand customer requirements and business prioritization, work with architects and technical leaders to build development plans and track execution progress.

• Drive development activities, monitor progress, collaborate to align dependencies, remove blockers for team members and manage risks

• People management of technical talents executing HR programs for employee acquisition, development, performance management and optimization, retention, and separation.

Required Technical and Professional Expertise

• Demonstated senior professional/industrial experience in software development.

• Experience in coaching, mentoring, training staff, setting expectations and balancing priorities to achieve desired deliverables

• Analytical skills required to quickly understand complex domains and be able to break down and plan feature work

• Agile software development practices

• Excellent verbal and written communication skills

• Ability to lead and drive collaboration within teams and across IBM to achieve desired outcomes

Preferred Technical and Professional Expertise

• Experience leading Agile scrum, working with GitHub and other tracking tools.

• Experience in people management for teams in excess of 10 engineers. Setting goals and measuring progress

• Knowledge of leading Quality Assurance initiatives

• Leading organizational transformation, both technically and organizationally

About Business UnitIBM Software infuses core business operations with intelligence-from machine learning to generative AI-to help make organizations more responsive, productive, and resilient. IBM Software helps clients put AI into action now to create real value with trust, speed, and confidence across digital labor, IT automation, application modernization, security, and sustainability. Critical to this is the ability to make use of all data, because AI is only as good as the data that fuels it. In most organizations data is spread across multiple clouds, on premises, in private datacenters, and at the edge. IBM's AI and data platform scales and accelerates the impact of AI with trusted data, and provides leading capabilities to train, tune and deploy AI across business. IBM's hybrid cloud platform is one of the most comprehensive and consistent approach to development, security, and operations across hybrid environments-a flexible foundation for leveraging data, wherever it resides, to extend AI deep into a business.

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