IBM Development Team Lead role 

Czechia, Prague, Prague 

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• Lead a team of Back-End engineers working on several services of
• Ensure delivery is done according to commitments (time, scope, and quality), by monitoring progress, tracking dependencies, removing blockers for team members, and managing risks.
• Develop and grow your team members.
• Continuously work to increase your team focus and ability to deliver.
• Partner with your product counterparty and negotiate, agree, and plan the team’s scope and priorities.
• Translate day2day work of the team into clear reporting to upline managers with clear status on activities, decisions, and risks.
• Work with your peers (other Team Leads and Tech Leads) to improve processes and transversal ways of working.
• Grow your knowledge around our Data & AI business unit, and influence how we deliver value to customers.

Required Technical and Professional Expertise

• Good level of proven experience working in complex systems in an enterprise context (5+ years as reference)
• Proven exposure to modern engineering practices (e.g. test automation, CI/CD, etc.) and complex release processes ( managing dependencies, coordinating with the Product team, etc.)
• 2+ years of experience in people management and delivery coordination.
• Good organizational and analytical skills.
• Experience working with agile software development practices and adapting these practices to team reality.
• Ability to lead and drive collaboration within teams and across IBM.
• Bias towards action, and proactive to initiate and drive initiatives and problem-solving mindset.
• Able to handle uncertainty and bring clarity to the team.

Preferred Technical and Professional Expertise

• Experience in a remote environment (your team is distributed between PT and CZ, and you need to interface with teams spread worldwide)
• Experience building a SaaS product at Enterprise level.
• Experience organizing on-call rota schemes and providing support to Production.
• Experience working in collaborative and globally distributed environments.
• Leading organizational transformation, both technically and organizationally.