Cloud Manager

bright engineering team that embraces open communication, empowerment, innovation, teamwork and a shared focus on customer success
Responsibilities:

• As a Development Manager, you will play a key role in the success of the IBM Cloud Databases organization which is a critical PaaS service offering from IBM Cloud.

• As a Development Manager, you will be the key driver to planning delivery using Agile practices, training and ramp-up needs of the team, driving operational efficiencies and tooling and responding to customer and support issues for your squad.

• To maintain competitive advantage, managers must be able to work quickly and produce high-quality status and ensure that they are bridging any gaps between various dependencies as well as bringing the proper awareness to any blockers to upper management.

• Working with other database squads to resolve common issues better, being able to drive efficiencies is also key.

• Development Managers in this organization help build career and grow the team.

• Join the IBM Cloud Databases Team !

Required Technical and Professional Expertise

• Minimum 15+ years of experience in Software Product Development domain

• Proficient in people and project management track record. Seasoned professional with hands on managing performance of the world class engineering team

• You will be responsible and accountable for product development and maintenance of our Software Stack

• You will be working on improving delivery efficiency, quality, release management, maintenance, and team management

• You will be hiring and mentoring team members

• In-depth understanding of all aspects of the software development processes and excellent cross-team collaboration skills. Agile development experience is highly desirable.

• Experience with implementation techniques to improve efficiency and ensure on-time project completion.

• Experience working with development teams to make sure they adhere to the product development lifecycle process. You'll drive the development team in their delivery of milestones and checkpoints.

• Track record of collaborating across functions to improve software products.

• Strong background and proven track record in engineering project management of complex software products.

• Experience working in a complex software development environment, preferably in Cloud

• Proven track record in handling customer situations related to the product/service owned

• Domain experience in working with Cloud based development organization.

• Excellent oral and written communication skills.

• Experience managing multiple projects at the same time, recognizing and mitigating risks, and working proactively on contingency plans. Experience with Rally Project Management tools is a big plus!

• Highly entrepreneurial with a strong passion, urgency, energy, dedication, and an unrelenting drive to succeed and win.

• Assiduous, out-of-the-box thinker who's open-minded, creative, intelligent and confident.

• Extremely well organized, detail-oriented and possessing a high level of integrity.

• Ability to get things done; must be resourceful, proactive and aggressive.

• Direct and candid "say it the way it is" mode of operation;

• Team player who works well in collaborative situations and start-up environments.

Preferred Technical and Professional Expertise

• Familiar with databases, cloud platform, cloud native development, agile development practices is an added advantage
• Proven track record on hosting highly available public cloud services