IBM

Introduction

IBM Storage Protection mission in India Systems Development Lab is looking for Senior Development Manager, who is passionate about and deeply skilled in Data Protection and Resiliency. Focus is on On-Prem deployments that require data resilience and comprises of workloads like Enterprise Application and Packages, DBs, Virtual Environments i.e VMs that are to be backed up and restored from Hard Drives, COS, Tapes and vendor specific storage h/w and s/w products (IBM and others a plus).

Your Role and Responsibilities

• In this role, one has to lead and manage a large, highly skilled development/support team. In addition to personnel management, this role will be required to handle issues reported by the customers in the field, work closely with the global stakeholders and work on new functional enhancements.
• This role focuses on ensuring high quality and availability of the product features and components as well as partnering with the Product Management and other stakeholders. It will involve collaboration across software/hardware/ storage teams, the leadership team on organization wide initiatives, working with external/internal sponsor users and customers during critical situations.

Required Technical and Professional Expertise

Having experience in Product Engg/Development is a must, apart from that here are some specific expectations:

• 16+ years of relevant experience of working on Enterprise Class Products, experience in dealing with products that involve system skills will be an added advantage.
• Good knowledge of Storage Software, Virtualization and Backup/Restore systems and practices.
• Excellent people management skills and ability to provide technical guidance to a team of experienced professionals. Experience in leading/managing a team of QA, development and support engineers.
• Ability to handle multiple scrum teams and scrum of scrums.
• Proficiency in planning, tracking and supervising outcome-oriented activities during the course of product development and support cycles.
• Ability to design and implement techniques and processes to collect and report on various metrics related to resourcing, scheduling and release aspects of product development and support activities.
• Proficiency in tools like Jira/RTC/MS-Project is a must.
• Excellent Communication, people management and leadership skills.

Preferred Technical and Professional Expertise

Apart from technical skills, some of the foremost requirements are to have someone

• who is open to learn and take inputs constructively.
• who embraces challenges and doesn’t believe in finding faults with team, peers or uplines. It’s Ok to err on skills but one need to be open minded towards improvement.
• who can balance people, product and process goals. Being open minded is the key to success for these roles.