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IBM Program Director 
India, Karnataka, Bengaluru 
33029368

15.07.2024

Your Role and Responsibilities
As a Program Director, you will be a second-line manager in the IBM Storage Ceph team in India. IBM® Storage Ceph® is a software-defined storage platform that consolidates block, file and object storage to help organizations eliminate data silos and deliver a cloud-like experience while retaining the cost benefits and data sovereignty advantages of on-premises IT. You will be leading development team working on various areas of Ceph product. You will be part of a global development team with large groups based in Germany, the US, UK Israel and in India in Pune and Bangalore.

Responsibilities:

  • People management of Managers and Senior Technical members across development
  • Planning and delivering the IBM Storage Ceph roadmap
  • Interlock with global stakeholders to help shape strategy and business direction
  • Hiring, development, and retention of the best talent within our industry.
  • Collaboration with teams across multiple geographies and time zones, including development managers, release managers, and project managers.
  • Capex budget planning and management for hardware needs.
  • Creation and execution of team-level initiatives for innovation, skill development, customer engagement, etc.
  • Interlock with the Product management team in roadmap planning and decision-making.
  • Champion Agile methodology and design thinking approach across all the deliveries.
  • Plan and execute early customer engagements through Beta, Playbacks, and POCs.
  • Ensure team compliance with IBM corporation-wide processes and guidelines.


Required Technical and Professional Expertise

  • 15+ years of experience in IT industry
  • 5+ years of managing technical teams of 25+ or more employees
  • Demonstrated ability to deliver or support technical product offerings
  • Ability to communicate with C suite
  • Technical and project management experience in the areas of systems – system design, Storage systems, Networking Protocols, firmware, Operating systems, virtualization, Kubernetes and cloud etc
  • You have experience in driving process transformation and innovation in the teams.


Preferred Technical and Professional Expertise

  • Technical skills in the systems or storage domain
  • Project and people management experience
  • History of leading teams within globally distributed organization