Software Development Manager

We are seeking a Development Manager to join our Connector Mission leadership team in IBM Software Product Development organization and under the product, IBM App Connect. IBM® App Connect instantly connects applications and data from existing systems and modern technologies across all environments. App Connect offers enterprise service bus (ESB) and agile integration architecture (AIA) microservices deployment of integration artifacts, allowing businesses to deploy to a multitude of flexible integration patterns. Development Managers with agile product development experience in cloud native or OCP native web-based products and managed services are desired.

Your primary responsibilities include:

• Solutions 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.

As a Software Development Manager, you:

• Are experienced with client-server architectures, networking protocols, application development, and using databases.

• Have hands on experience in Application Development

• Are experienced in People Management

• Are experienced in Product Delivery, Support and Maintenance

• Have experience using and developing APIs.

• Understand user and system requirements

• Have an understanding of, or experience with, Agile development methodology.

What You'll Do:

• You'll work in a dynamic, collaborative environment to understand requirements, design, code and test innovative applications, and support those applications for our highly valued customers.
• You'll employ IBM's Design Thinking to create products that provide a great user experience along with high performance, security, quality, and stability.
• Design and code services, applications and databases that are reusable, scalable and meet critical architecture goals.
• Create Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) that are clean, well-documented, and easy to use.
• Create and configure Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS), Platform as a Service (PaaS) and Software as a Service (SaaS) applications. Design and implement large scale systems and Service Oriented Architectures (SOA) that enable continuous delivery.

• Manage a team of approximately 15 software engineers

• Collaborate with our development, devops and leadership teams worldwide

Who You Are:
• You are highly motivated and have a passion for creating and supporting great products
• You thrive on collaboration, working side by side with people of all backgrounds and disciplines, and you have very strong verbal and written communication skills.
• You are great at solving problems, debugging, troubleshooting, designing and implementing solutions to complex technical issues.
• You have a solid understanding of software development and programming languages.
• You have the ability to learn new skills quickly and use the skills efficiently.

Required education

Bachelor's Degree

Required technical and professional expertise

• Overall 10+ years of Industry experience and 5+ years of experience in leading teams as people manager

• Experience with Docker and container orchestration technologies such as Open Shift Container Platform (OCP), Kubernetes

• Familiarity with cloud-based providers: IBM Cloud, AWS, Azure, google compute, etc. and their hosting tools and APIs

• Experience working with and developing APIs

• Experience working with operating systems (Linux, RedHat Open Shift...etc.).

• Familiarity with various Cloud and DB technologies: Docker, Kubernetes, Elasticsearch, Logstash, Kibana, CouchDB, Cassandra, and Postgres

• Experience in full stack development working with servers, applications and databases using Node.js, JavaScript, React.js, etc.

• Experience in delivery via Agile Methodology

• Experience in Product Development, Maintenance and Support
• Experience in Customer Support and managing escalations

Preferred technical and professional experience

Solid experience with OCP Native containers

• Scripting and deployment topology knowledge: python, shell, ansible, chef, puppet, etc

• Monitoring workloads through clouds (New Relic, Sysdig, Elasticsearch, Logstash, and Kibana)

• Cloud concepts around Auto-scale and auto-recover cloud components

• General IT security standards, principles, and compliances (ISO27k, SOC2, GDPR, PCI, etc.)

• Familiar with continuous delivery and CI/CD technologies: ArgoCD, Terraform, etc.

• Familiar with RPA or AI technologies

ABOUT BUSINESS UNIT

IBM 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.

YOUR LIFE @ IBM

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Being an IBMer means you'll be able to learn and develop yourself and your career, you'll be encouraged to be courageous and experiment everyday, all whilst having continuous trust and support in an environment where everyone can thrive whatever their personal or professional background.

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