Introduction
watsonx Code Assistant is an exciting new offering from IBM that strives to revolutionize enterprise software development with Generative AI. We need your expertise, your motivation and your collaboration to take watsonx Code Assistant to the next level.
As a Software Development Manager, you will primarily responsible to lead a software development team, be responsible for some modules of the watsonx Code Assistant Development team and deliver new features, improvements and business value our clients. This role requires strong leadership and change management skills, the ability to lead high performing teams, and a general knowledge of analytics. The ideal candidate for this position will have an established background in software development, strong technical ability, project management expertise, motivation to achieve results in a fast paced environment, as well as be client-focused and passionate about new technology, agile and devOps practices.
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Your role and responsibilities
The responsibilities will include:
• Hire and develop high performing technical talent with a particular focus on delivering values.
• Drive team to establish comprehensive development plans and innovative solutions to problems / challenges that meet desired outcomes and keep integrity to client commitments.
• Ensure end to end development activities are properly sized, planned and tracked to meet delivery expectations supporting focus areas such as:
o Ensure developed plans (including dependencies, risk mitigations) are interlocked internally and across functional teams & stakeholders
o Allocate and balance resources across multiple projects to meet needs of business priorities
o Provide management oversight to a number of activities running in parallel, address issues/concerns with speed, and enable coarse corrective actions.
o Report on development status to program stakeholders as needed
Performs other duties as required
Required education
Master's Degree
Required technical and professional expertise
- 6+ years of experience
- Experience in building and managing development teams
- Experience with project management, planning, tracking, stakeholder management, conflict resolution and prioritization
- Strong software development background with prior experience in any modern programming language like GO, NodeJS, Javascript, Python including software design and architecture
- Thorough understanding of the agile development process
- Excellent people management and communication skills
- Experience with Source Control Management (i.e. Git)
- Fluent in written and spoken English
Preferred technical and professional experience
- Deep curiosity about the latest AI research and applications
- Experience with ML models evaluations techniques, including Large Language Models (LLMs) is a plus
- Comprehensive understanding and hands-on mastery of containerized solutions including Docker, Kubernetes, and OpenShift is a plus.
- Experience in architecting, deploying, and managing applications in cloud or hybrid infrastructures is a plus.
ABOUT BUSINESS UNIT
IBM 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.
YOUR LIFE @ IBM
In a world where technology never stands still, we understand that, dedication to our clients success, innovation that matters, and trust and personal responsibility in all our relationships, lives in what we do as IBMers as we strive to be the catalyst that makes the world work better.
Being an IBMer means you'll be able to learn and develop yourself and your career, you'll be encouraged to be courageous and experiment everyday, all whilst having continuous trust and support in an environment where everyone can thrive whatever their personal or professional background.
Our IBMers are growth minded, always staying curious, open to feedback and learning new information and skills to constantly transform themselves and our company. They are trusted to provide on-going feedback to help other IBMers grow, as well as collaborate with colleagues keeping in mind a team focused approach to include different perspectives to drive exceptional outcomes for our customers. The courage our IBMers have to make critical decisions everyday is essential to IBM becoming the catalyst for progress, always embracing challenges with resources they have to hand, a can-do attitude and always striving for an outcome focused approach within everything that they do.
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ABOUT IBM
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Restlessly reinventing since 1911, we are not only one of the largest corporate organizations in the world, we're also one of the biggest technology and consulting employers, with many of the Fortune 50 companies relying on the IBM Cloud to run their business.
At IBM, we pride ourselves on being an early adopter of artificial intelligence, quantum computing and blockchain. Now it's time for you to join us on our journey to being a responsible technology innovator and a force for good in the world.
OTHER RELEVANT JOB DETAILS
Must have the ability to work in Canada without sponsorship.
This role will involve working with technology that is covered by Export Regulations sanctions. If you are a Foreign National from any of the following US sanctioned countries (Cuba, Iran, North Korea, Syria, and the Crimea, Luhansk, Donetsk, Kherson, and Zaporizhia regions of Ukraine) on a work permit, you are not eligible for employment in this position.