Your Role and Responsibilities As a Program Director, you will be a second-line manager in the IBM Storage Insights team in India. IBM Storage Insights is a cloud-based storage management and support platform designed to help organizations optimize their storage infrastructure. It provides comprehensive analytics, monitoring, and reporting capabilities to ensure efficient and reliable storage operations. You will be leading development team working on various areas of Storage Insights product.
Responsibilities:
People management of Managers and Senior Technical members in development
Planning and delivering the IBM Storage Insights 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 stakeholders across multiple geographies and time zones, including development managers, Product managers, and Support.
Budget planning and management for program needs.
Creation and execution of team-level initiatives for innovation, skill development, customer engagement, etc.
Functional Management ownership of Storage Insight SaaS application components design , development , integration and delivery.
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.
Product evangelism to enhance customer adoption.
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 updates and strategy with executives.
Technical and project management experience in the areas of cloud application development.
Experience in driving process transformation and innovation in the teams.
Experienced with Cloud application development, Public Cloud environments and no sql databases.
Experience using and developing APIs.
Strong fundamentals in cloud related microservices based SaaS application development using java along experience in the areas like Containers , Kubernetes , GUI , DevOps.
Strong understanding of User Experience strategy , design and delivery.
Preferred Technical and Professional Expertise
Technical skills in the SaaS Application development and storage domain.