Introduction
Our mission is to establish a new IBM Z development team in Waterford, Ireland.

We will integrate our new team in the global IBM Z development community.
We will connect with regional IBM and RedHat teams.
We will closely work with academia, provide tailored IBM Z education at universities.
By performing Industrial Research, we will deliver crucial and highly innovative products to our enterprise clients and influence IBMs strategy for IBM Z multi-architecture deployments, Linux, and AI.

Your Role and Responsibilities

• Technically lead new IBM Z development teams.
• The focus will be broad and include crucial Infrastructure enhancements for IBM Z, such as Linux kernel, multi-architecture deployments of IBM Z. It will also include AI solutions, which are built on these new infrastructure enhancements.
• Provide guidance and mentor junior developers.
• Closely collaborate with other international leaders to plan and integrate our products.
• Foster university relations and create content for lectures, tailored to our needs.
• Interact with clients, technical sales colleagues, and product management to define development priorities.
• Actively support our developer profession certification.
• Establish and mentor jump start projects.
• Technically host and lead hiring interviews.
• Mentor talents.
• Technically lead liaison with RedHat to enable a strong mutual collaboration.

PLEASE NOTE - This position is based in our Waterford location and requires working onsite 3 days per week.

Required Technical and Professional Expertise

• Top technical skills in context of Linux.
• Strong technical leadership.
• Broad experience from multiple technical leadership positions.
• Strong teaching/educating capabilities for technical contents.
• Strong network within IBM, universities, and clients.

Preferred Technical and Professional Expertise

• Passion for IBM Z, Linux, and Open Source, and machine learning.
• Experience in building new teams.
• Quick comprehension in new technical areas.