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IBM Engineering Manager in Kochi, India

Introduction

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Your Role and Responsibilities

We are seeking a Engineering Manager to join us in Kochi, India to manage a team, solution, and technology for an IBM Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) product.

We seek an applicant who will thrive in an open, dynamic, flexible, fun, spirited, collaborative environment; an individual who desires creative freedom and the opportunity to work in a high performing team.

In this role, you will lead with a small high performance group of engineers, making sure they understand product requirement, delivery needs, and deadlines. You'll be expected to work across development groups to understand dependencies and resolution of them. You'll work with Product management groups to define feature needs and deliverables. You'll be responsible and expected to deliver the agreed upon features and functions in the time decided. Clear communications of development progress and obstacles is expected and required.

Primary job responsibilities:

  • As a Manager you will be responsible for driving the projects from initiation to closure, ensuring adherence to timelines, and quality standards.

  • Define work schedules and track task assignment for the team and clear roadblocks and risks to enable product delivery

  • Bring in efficiencies in the process/product methodologies, hiring and retaining highly talented engineers

  • Work with peer Managers, Product Owners, Architects, stakeholders, etc. to share/apply best practices at increasing efficiency and showcase status of the product to senior management and Executives

  • Create an environment for collaboration and high performing culture that is required to make this multi-site development team successful

  • Ensure Business Compliance and Integrity is maintained across the team

  • Collaborate with cross-functional teams including sales, solution architects, and technical experts to define project scope, objectives, and deliverables.

  • Collaborate with senior management to develop strategic plans, set performance targets, and drive business growth initiatives.

  • Establishes partnerships and relationships with internal customers, stakeholders, peers and direct reports.

  • Coaches, counsels, mentors and provides developmental opportunities and job assignments to enhance employee performance and expand capabilities

  • Ensures employees are working effectively with all teams. Provides on-going developmental feedback.

Required Technical and Professional Expertise

  • Bachelor's degree in computer science, computer engineering, or a related field (or equivalent professional experience).

  • 12+ years of experience in working in IT with a minimum of 8+ years working in Software Development

  • 5+ years of experience in Software Release management and leadership using Agile methodologies

  • Has led a Technical team and been part of their Talent & Career Development.

  • Good problem solver - technical solutions as well as conflict resolution

  • Familiar with tools to track project & defect progress (GitHub, Jira, etc.)

  • Associated with automation including scripting (shell, python, , ansible) and in full stack software development

  • Review and mentor junior team members

  • Experience in working on a SaaS application with high industry standard CI/CD, and development cycle processes.

  • Awareness of Docker, Kubernetes, Openshift and AWS

  • Excellent problem-solving and troubleshooting skills

  • Proven ability to work effectively in a global team environment, forming & managing multiple projects across geographies.

Preferred Technical and Professional Expertise

  • Experience in building automation frameworks with Java/Python

  • Proficiency in cloud platforms - AWS and IBM Cloud."

About Business UnitIBM Software infuses core business operations with intelligence-from machine learning to generative AI-to help make organizations more responsive, productive, and resilient. IBM Software helps clients put AI into action now to create real value with trust, speed, and confidence across digital labor, IT automation, application modernization, security, and sustainability. Critical to this is the ability to make use of all data, because AI is only as good as the data that fuels it. In most organizations data is spread across multiple clouds, on premises, in private datacenters, and at the edge. IBM's AI and data platform scales and accelerates the impact of AI with trusted data, and provides leading capabilities to train, tune and deploy AI across business. IBM's hybrid cloud platform is one of the most comprehensive and consistent approach to development, security, and operations across hybrid environments-a flexible foundation for leveraging data, wherever it resides, to extend AI deep into a business.

This job requires you to be fully COVID-19 vaccinated prior to your start date and proof of vaccination status will be required before your start date. During the Onboarding process you will be asked to confirm your vaccination status, in case you are unable to get vaccinated for any reason, you can let us know at that stage. Please let us know if you are unable to be vaccinated due to medical or religious reasons. IBM will consider such requests on a case by case basis subject to submission of required proof by the candidate before a stipulated date.

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