Software Development Manager AI Center of Excellence

Looking to make a significant impact? This is your chance to become a key part of a dynamic team of talented professionals, leading the development and deployment of innovative, industry-leading, cloud-based AI services.

We are seeking an experienced AI & Cloud Software Engineering Manager to join us. This leadership role focuses on guiding, mentoring, and managing a team of engineers in designing, developing, and deploying AI-based services. You will be instrumental in problem-solving, automating wide ranges of tasks, and interfacing with other teams, offering managers, and customers to solve complex problems.

You will build a strong, agile, and modern team culture aimed at creating world-class development and deployment environments. Your efforts will ensure industry-leading user experiences for our customers. As an essential part of the leadership team, you will contribute to the cloud services architecture and design while mentoring the next generation of cloud engineers.

Responsibilities:

• Lead, mentor, and manage a team of AI and cloud software engineers.

• Oversee the planning, execution, and delivery of AI-based services and cloud solutions.

• Provide technical direction and architectural oversight for AI and cloud projects.

• Interface with other teams, managers, and customers to align project goals and deliverables.

• Address and resolve technical challenges and roadblocks faced by the team.

• Monitor and evaluate team performance, providing feedback and development opportunities.

• Stay updated with the latest trends in AI and cloud technologies to encourage continuous improvement.

• Ensure the delivery of industry-leading user experiences for customers.

• Allocate resources effectively to meet project and organizational goals.

• Maintain comprehensive documentation of projects and processes, and report progress to senior management.

Required education

Bachelor's Degree

Required technical and professional expertise

Required Skills:

• Minimum 12-15 years of experience as Full Stack Developer with a focus on AI projects

• Experience with AI and machine learning frameworks such as scikit-learn, TensorFlow, PyTorch, LLMs, Generative AI.

• Familiarity with AI model deployment and integration.

• Solid understanding of backend technologies, including server-side languages (Node.js, Python, Java, etc.) and databases (Cassandra, PostgreSQL, etc.).

• Understanding and experience with RESTful APIs, Java/J2EE, Kafka & GitHub.

• Strong experience with Cloud Technologies, Kubernetes based microservices architecture, Kafka, Object Storage, Cassandra database and docker container technologies. Knowledge on IBM Cloud Technologies will be an added advantage.

• At least 6 years of hands-on development experience building applications with one or more of the following: Java, Spring, Liberty, Node.js, Express.js, Golang, NoSQL DB, Redis, distributed caches, containers etc.,

• At least 3 years of experience in building and operating highly secured, distributed cloud services with one or more of the following: IBM Cloud, AWS, Azure, SRE, CI/CD, Docker, Container orchestration, performance testing, etc.,

• At least 3 years of experience in web technologies: HTTP, REST, JSON, HTML, Ajax, JavaScript etc.,

• Solid understanding of the micro-services architecture and modern cloud programming practices. Strong ability to design a clean, developer-friendly API.

• Passionate about constant, continuous learning and applying new technologies as well as mentoring others.

• Keen troubleshooting skills and strong verbal/written communication skills.

Preferred technical and professional experience

Preferred Skills:

• Experience in using messaging brokers like RabbitMQ, Kafka etc.

• Operating Systems (such as Red Hat, Ubuntu, etc.)

• Knowledge of network protocols such as TCP/IP, HTTP, etc.

• Experience and working knowledge of version Control systems like Github and build tools like Maven/Gradle

• Ability to learn and apply new technologies quickly

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

• Strong sense of ownership of deliverables

• UI test automation skills - Selenium and/or Puppeteer

• Beyond the requirements, candidates should be passionate about in the role:

• Continuous learning and ability to adapt to change

• Working across global teams and collaborating across teams and organization boundaries

• Finding innovative ways to solve complex problems with cutting edge technologies.

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