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

• Lead new IBM Z development first line organization.
• Provide strong people management and guidance.
• Manage hiring, onboarding, education for new hires.
• Actively support leadership development: mentor talents, retain critical skills, enable growth (technical and soft skills, share strategy and client insights).
• Manage liaison with RedHat to enable a strong mutual collaboration.
• Closely collaborate with program management to define strategy, product plans and priorities.
• Engage with international development counterparts to synchronize on product stakes and deliveries. Ensure that the new team will become a well recognized and trusted player in IBM’s Development and Research Community
• Apply agile project management.
• Manage these unexpected challenges that come along with first-of-a-kind missions.
• Enable and support our technical team to deliver top class products.
• Create a productive and efficient work environment, plan and control infrastructure requirements, define and establish processes.

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

Required Technical and Professional Expertise

• Top people management, project management and leadership skills.
• Experience from multiple 1st line positions.
• Broad technical experience from various development projects.
• Strong network within IBM, with universities and clients.

Preferred Technical and Professional Expertise

• Passion for IBM Z and Open Source.
• Experience in building new teams.
• High interest in technical innovation.