Senior Manager - SW Development and Maintenance

The world nowadays is changing faster than ever. Technology and data are reshaping industries and our lives. IBM’s access to state of the art analytics, machine learning (Watson), Cloud, blockchain, etc. along with our affinity to experiment and pilot make this a truly unique opportunity to engage, learn, and lead.
New roles are being created that never existed before to meet the demands of this transformation. We are seeking a leader with passion, a technical background, and with an experience in leading organizational change and developing high performing teams.

In this role, the senior leader will enable our IT professionals to radically simplify, streamline, and apply new technologies into IBM’s application development and maintenance, to support IBM global invoicing processes. The role has frequent interactions with all levels of leadership, spanning strategy, delivery, support and all financial aspects, and is a proven stepping stone for further advancement opportunities. Also some travel might be required but won't be extensive.

Additional responsibilities will include:
- Drive prioritization across multiple stakeholders based on overall value to IBM business
- Drive Roadmap commitments, and oversee execution through delivery and adoption.
- Manage overall budget and respond to business challenges
- Simplify Architectural Landscape, and drive technical strategy based on growth in new technologies (ie. Cloud, Cognitive, Blockchain)
- Streamline communication across multiple teams, and represent the team through up-level and executive management
- Drive organization operational initiatives such as implementation of agile, devops and design thinking practices with goal of driving efficiency and growth.
- Define, Measure and drive teams to course correct issues based on key measures

Relevant skills and beneficial experience includes:
- Passion for leading organizational change and building high performing teams, coaching in best practices to drive the progress of our Agile journey, continuous delivery, and DevOps
- Managing long-term organizational health including positive career rotations of team members and (as with any technology organization) keeping skills updated and well-matched to changing business dynamics
- Experience in Agile transformation using world class DevOps practices
- Understanding of the software development lifecycle, continuous integration and delivery practices, and supporting large Agile development efforts.
- Setting up and managing tools and processes that enable the business of modern software development; recognizing opportunities to improve development and delivery through better tools, automation, and process improvements.
- Managing large sized geographically distributed teams
- Maintaining strong positive relationships with business executive stakeholders and product owners

Minimum Requirements:
(number of years of experience is an indicator but not a must, if candidate can demonstrate relevant experience)
- 7+ years of continuous integration project/program delivery and applying best practices and tooling
- 10+ years of experience building and leading high performing teams and leading individuals and teams through periods of significant change
- 3 to 5+ years of experience in agile delivery methodologies using world class DevOps practices
- Deep understanding of software development, delivery, and support, and implementing change in global operations
- Proven track record maintaining strong positive relationships with business executive stakeholders and product owners
- Knowledge of supply chain business processes, understanding of Invoicing processes is a benefit
- Experience creating and delivering strategic application architectures with emphasis on removing legacy and transitioning to new technologies and platforms
- Experience leading globally dispersed and/or matrixed organizations
- Strong business and technical vision
- Experience managing all aspects of a successful organization including resources, career planning, skills development, budgets, delivery, support, stakeholder relationships, and leading through change

Your money
Annual performance bonus payment
Subsidized meal-tickets
Special IBM discounts
Diners club - private credit card
Recommend-a-Friend – get a bonus in the employee referral program

Your life
Flexible working time
Three additional vacation days
International environment

Your health
Life Insurance
Medical sanatorium
Up to three self-recovery days
100% sick leave compensation

Your development
Long term career development and possibility of internal rotation
Training programs - classroom based training and 5000 e-learning course