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Introduction

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Your Role and Responsibilities

Our AI on Z team is responsible for solutioning of enterprise customer's business problems by creating custom solutions, demoable assets, proof of concepts, etc. to showcase the AI capabilities of the platform and especially the onboard AI accelerator. Additionally, the team is also contributing in a big way towards the development of AI Toolkit that has the necessary packages as well as platform specific optiizations & enhancements that provide competitive differentiation. The team is now tasked with enabling a new AI accelerator on the platform by contributing to the development & validation of the new stack. We closely collaborate with the research labs and other development teams of IBM, as well as interface with the global maintainers of Open Source communities.

As an Engineering Manager, you will primarily be responsible in leading/managing the AI on Z team focussed on enabling the development and client adoption of the AI stack on the Linux on IBM Z Server systems (s390x) architecture.

In the capacity of management leader you will be working with peers and stakeholders to ensure IBM business continuity. You will be responsible for the development team with a joint and end-to-end ownership of the product development, managing delivery schedules and assure highest quality release with maximum exploiter/customer satisfaction.

Essentially :

• Hire and managing highly talented engineers skilled in Linux base OS and associated Hybrid Cloud and AI sub-systems

• Focus on Employee engagement, Growth, Skill building, Innovation and well-being towards retaining highly talented engineers

• Enable collaboration with distro partners to upstream the modules to open source community.

• Take End to End responsibility of product delivery and release by applying Design Thinking & Agile practices in product design, development & test

• Motivate the team in applying processes and best practices in delivering great user experience and quality products for IBM's Server Systems

• Ensure Business Compliance and Integrity is maintained across the team

• Collaborate with peers and stakeholders to share/apply best practices at increasing efficiency in the process/product methodologies.

Required Technical and Professional Expertise

Required Technical and Professional Expertise with relevant experience of 10-18 years:

• Demonstrated leadership with at least 10 years of hands-on technical IT industry experience preferably in the area of Systems product R&D associated with cloud/AI technologies

• Strong grounding in traditional AI methodologies, covering machine learning, deep learning, and natural language processing frameworks

• Proven ability to manage and lead/guide/mentor technical team and been part of their talent & career development - essentially a people champion

• Good problem solver - technical solutions as well as conflict resolution

• Familiar with Enterprise Server (Unix/Linux) Operating System (advantage if familiar with IBM Z Systems as a consumer or user)

• Familiar with tools to track project & defect progress (RQM, RTC, Clear Quest, Best Quest, github, Jupyter, Jira, Trello, etc.) from program concept to delivery

• Strong understanding of programming (Python, C++, Go, Java, or other relevant languages), and ML libraries (e.g., TensorFlow, PyTorch), with a focus on developing production-grade quality products

• Familiar with automation including scripting (shell, python, perl, ansible), integration into frameworks (Robot, Jenkins, etc.), and applied CI/CD/CT approaches

• Adopted Agile, DevOps, and Design Thinking methodologies at work

• Proven ability to work effectively in a global team environment, forming & managing multiple projects across geographies

• Proven command over the English language, both written and verbal

Preferred Technical and Professional Expertise

• Solid understanding of systems hardware & architecture

• Good understanding operating systems internals/Kernel (Process Management, Memory Management, Virtualization, Scheduling, I/O (Networking & Storage), Security, etc.)

• Understanding of on-prem vs cloud deployments

• Be able to relate to technologies spanning across Redhat OpenShift (OCP), and Hybrid Cloud (Docker, Kubernetes, Containers), and Artificial Intelligence (AI), etc.

• Hands on experience on deploying AI/ML models on cloud.

About Business UnitIBM 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.

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