IBM Program Director 

India, Karnataka, Bengaluru 

276200989

• Hiring, development, and retention of the best talent from the industry skilled in Unix/Linux base OS and associated Hybrid Cloud and AI sub-systems
• Focus on Employee engagement, Growth, Skill building, Innovation and well-being towards retaining highly talented resources
• Enable collaboration with open source community and Linux distro partners
• Champion Design Thinking & Agile practices in product design, development & test
• Motivate the team in applying processes and best practices in delivering great user experience and quality products for IBM Server Systems
• Ensure Business Compliance and Integrity is maintained across the team
• Collaborate with teams across multiple geographies and time zones, including development managers, release managers, product managers, peers and stakeholders to share/apply best practices at increasing efficiency in the process/product methodologies

Required Technical and Professional Expertise
Relevant experience of 20+ years:

• Demonstrated leadership with atleast 10 years of hands-on technical IT industry experience preferably in the area of Systems product R&D associated with Cloud/AI technologies
• Atleast 5 years of People Management experience, preferably managing Managers as well as Senior Technical resources
• Proven ability to manage and lead/guide/mentor technical team and been part of their talent & career development – essentially a people champion
• Good problem solver – business/technical solutions, conflict resolution, expert negotiator
• Familiar with Enterprise Server (Unix/Linux) Operating System (advantage if familiar with IBM Z Systems as a consumer or user)
• Technically associated with:

• Systems Software, and Server/Systems platform architecture and familiar with Virtualization technologies and Performance optimization approaches
• Kubernetes, RHOCP, DevOps, Python, GO Language, Docker, Jenkins, etc.
• AI Methodologies including Data Science, Generative AI, AI Compiler/Runtime, Machine learning, Deep learning, and Natural language processing, Data Handling, etc.

• Familiar with tools to track project & defect progress (RQM, RTC, Clear Quest, Best Quest, github, Jupyter, Jira, Trello, etc.) from program concept to delivery
• Experienced in driving process transformation and innovation in the organization
• Drive Agile, DevOps, and Design Thinking methodologies at work to streamline the delivery process
• Proven ability to work effectively in a global team environment, forming & managing multiple projects across geographies
• Proven command over the English language, both written and verbal.

Preferred Technical and Professional Expertise

• Solid understanding of systems hardware & architecture
• Good understanding operating systems internals/Kernel (Process Management, Memory Management, Virtualization, Scheduling, I/O (Networking & Storage), Security, etc.)
• Understanding of on-prem vs cloud deployments
• Be able to relate to technologies spanning across Redhat OpenShift (OCP), and Hybrid Cloud (Docker, Kubernetes, Containers), and Artificial Intelligence (AI), etc.
• Understanding of AI/ML model deployments, AI lifecycle , hands-on experience on deploying AI/ML models on cloud.