Your Role and Responsibilities
Responsibilities:- As a Development Manager, you will play a key role in the success of the IBM Cloud Databases organization which is a critical PaaS service offering from IBM Cloud.
- As a Development Manager, you will be the key driver to planning delivery using Agile practices, training and ramp-up needs of the team, driving operational efficiencies and tooling and responding to customer and support issues for your squad.
- To maintain competitive advantage, managers must be able to work quickly and produce high-quality status and ensure that they are bridging any gaps between various dependencies as well as bringing the proper awareness to any blockers to upper management.
- Working with other database squads to resolve common issues better, being able to drive efficiencies is also key.
- Development Managers in this organization help build career and grow the team.
- Join the IBM Cloud Databases Team !
Required Technical and Professional Expertise
- Minimum 15+ years of experience in Software Product Development domain
- Proficient in people and project management track record. Seasoned professional with hands on managing performance of the world class engineering team
- You will be responsible and accountable for product development and maintenance of our Software Stack
- You will be working on improving delivery efficiency, quality, release management, maintenance, and team management
- You will be hiring and mentoring team members
- In-depth understanding of all aspects of the software development processes and excellent cross-team collaboration skills. Agile development experience is highly desirable.
- Experience with implementation techniques to improve efficiency and ensure on-time project completion.
- Experience working with development teams to make sure they adhere to the product development lifecycle process. You’ll drive the development team in their delivery of milestones and checkpoints.
- Track record of collaborating across functions to improve software products.
- Strong background and proven track record in engineering project management of complex software products.
- Experience working in a complex software development environment, preferably in Cloud
- Proven track record in handling customer situations related to the product/service owned
- Domain experience in working with Cloud based development organization.
- Excellent oral and written communication skills.
- Experience managing multiple projects at the same time, recognizing and mitigating risks, and working proactively on contingency plans. Experience with Rally Project Management tools is a big plus!
- Highly entrepreneurial with a strong passion, urgency, energy, dedication, and an unrelenting drive to succeed and win.
- Assiduous, out-of-the-box thinker who’s open-minded, creative, intelligent and confident.
- Extremely well organized, detail-oriented and possessing a high level of integrity.
- Ability to get things done; must be resourceful, proactive and aggressive.
- Direct and candid “say it the way it is” mode of operation;
- Team player who works well in collaborative situations and start-up environments.
Preferred Technical and Professional Expertise
- Familiar with databases, cloud platform, cloud native development, agile development practices is an added advantage
- Proven track record on hosting highly available public cloud services