IBM Software Development Manager 

India, Kerala, Kochi 

338260665

• Hire and develop high performing multi-disciplinary technical talent with a particular focus on delivering values.
• Drive team to establish comprehensive development plans and innovative solutions to problems / challenges that meet desired outcomes and keep integrity to client commitments.
• Ensure stakeholder partnership including Product Management, Technical Architects, Support teams, Release Management and SRE.
• Should act as development manager focal in client meetings and able to summarize technical situations / resolution with the client and other stake holders.
• Ensure end to end development activities are properly sized, planned and tracked to meet delivery expectations supporting focus areas such as:
• Ensure developed plans (including dependencies, risk mitigations) are interlocked internally and across functional teams & stakeholders
• Allocate and balance resources across multiple areas / projects to meet needs of business priorities
• Provide management oversight to a number of activities running in parallel, address issues/concerns with speed, and enable course corrective actions.
• Report on development status to program stakeholders as needed
• Ensure Performance, Quality , Security standards are strictly adhered to.
• Performs other duties as required.

Required Technical and Professional Expertise

• Overall 12+ years of proven IT experience – preferably over a breadth of Development experience in various technologies.
• Proven exposure to Scrum / Kanban methodologies. Understanding of Agile practices.
• Tooling experience of Jira, GitHub for Project Management.
• Awareness of Automation tooling & scripting – Jenkins, SPS, Python, Selenium etc
• Prior experience / Proficiency in at least one of Java, .net or React like UI framework.
• Experience in SQL, Databases is a must.
• Experience in Cloud service ( IBM Cloud ) or any hyper-scalar is preferred.

Preferred Technical and Professional Expertise