Introduction
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Your Role and Responsibilities
You will be responsible for leading/Managing a team of highly talented individuals for developing IBM FlashSystems (IBM Spectrum Virtualize) product
Lead 15+ technical resources covering various aspects of IBM FlashSystem Development.
Collaborate closely with other peer teams globally
Functional Management ownership of IBM FlashSystems Software components design , development , integration and delivery.

What you will do :
The First line manager will lead and manage a large, highly skilled Storage Development team. In addition to personnel management, the manager will lead the team to deliver new functional enhancements for IBM FlashSystem Software components as well as provide service support to our customer. The role focuses on ensuring high quality and availability of these components as well as partnering with the Product Management and Project Managers on the delivery of IBM FlashSystem releases. The role includes: collaboration across software/hardware/firmware/storage, the leadership team on organization wide initiatives, working with external/internal sponsor users and customers during critical situations.

Required Technical and Professional Expertise

Excellent people management skills and ability to provide technical guidance to a team of experienced professionals
12+ years of relevant experience of Storage Development
Experience in leading/managing a team of QA and Development Engineers
Strong fundamentals in Storage Technologies like Virtualization, Block Storage, SAN, Plugin development concepts etc
Able to handle multiple scrum teams and scrum of scrums.
Excellent Communication, people management and leadership skills
Experienced with networking protocols, Cloud application development, Public Cloud environments and no sql databases.

Preferred Technical and Professional Expertise

6+ years of leading and mentoring teams.
Systems and Storage Virtualization .
Above all, we are looking for applicants who will thrive in an agile, vibrant, flexible, fun-spirited, collaborative environment and desires creative freedom and an opportunity to work with and on a high performing team!

About Business Unit
IBM Systems helps IT leaders think differently about their infrastructure. IBM servers and storage are no longer inanimate - they can understand, reason, and learn so our clients can innovate while avoiding IT issues. Our systems power the world’s most important industries and our clients are the architects of the future. Join us to help build our leading-edge technology portfolio designed for cognitive business and optimized for cloud computing.

This job requires you to be fully COVID-19 vaccinated prior to your start date and proof of vaccination status will be required before your start date. During the Onboarding process you will be asked to confirm your vaccination status, in case you are unable to get vaccinated for any reason, you can let us know at that stage. Please let us know if you are unable to be vaccinated due to medical or religious reasons. IBM will consider such requests on a case by case basis subject to submission of required proof by the candidate before a stipulated date.

Your Life @ IBM
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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.

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About IBM
IBM’s greatest invention is the IBMer. We believe that through the application of intelligence, reason and science, we can improve business, society and the human condition, bringing the power of an open hybrid cloud and AI strategy to life for our clients and partners around the world.

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.

Location Statement
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Being You @ IBM
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