Introduction
At IBM, work is more than a job – it’s a calling: To build. To design. To code. To consult. To think along with clients and sell. To make markets. To invent. To collaborate. Not just to do something better, but to attempt things you’ve never thought possible. Are you ready to lead in this new era of technology and solve some of the world’s most challenging problems? If so, lets talk.

Your Role and Responsibilities
We are looking for an experienced Engineering Team Lead to join our Data and AI Development team. You will work as part of the Data and AI Development team with a focus on the following key responsibilities:

• Lead a team of Back-End engineers working on several services within IBM data governance software (IBM Knowledge Catalog).
• Develop and grow your team members.
• Be hands-on working on features.
• Continuously work to keep your team focused and productive.
• Partner with your Product counterparty and negotiate, agree, and plan the team scope and priorities.
• Partner with Architecture and other engineers to discuss, agree and deliver out target architecture.
• Ensure delivery is done according to commitments (time, scope, and quality), by monitoring progress, tracking dependencies, removing blockers for team members, and managing risks.
• Provide upline managers with clear status on activities, decisions, and risks.

Required Technical and Professional Expertise

Preferred Technical and Professional Expertise

• Experience working in Scrum and/or Kanban practices.
• Experience building a SaaS product.
• Experience organizing on-call rota schemes and providing support to Production.
• Experience with technologies that are part of our tech stack: Java 11 / 17, Spring Boot, ActiveMQ-Artemis, React 16+, JavaScript, TypeScript, Maven, Git, Docker, Kubernetes and Openshift.
• Experience working in collaborative and globally distributed environment.
• Leading organizational transformation, both technically and organizationally.