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Program Director IBM Z Firmware and Performance

IBM

Operations

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Posted on Jul 12, 2025

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Introduction

We are Firmware professional working on Z systems ( IBM Advanced Mainframes ) and we build the most secure systems for our customers to deploy their enterprise applications. IBM z Systems are deployed with workloads where intensive IO Operations are getting executed. IBM Lab works on IO enablement firmware as well as boot firmware for z Servers. Work area would be Initial program load that is Boot firmware which enables the z Systems to boot and load supported Operating systems(Linux, zOS, zVM ) on Logical partitions.

Your role and responsibilities

As management leader:
Manage, Lead and guide the team to achieve the committed goals within timelines provided by program management
Assess, manage risks, future gaps and take actions/mitigate the risks in timely manner.
Raise the concerns well ahead of the time to show a risk which cannot be mitigated
Attend/Follow global management and program management meetings and act upon any communications.
Assign/allocate the teams as per the requirement of the projects
Manage/ course correct the career paths of the team members, keep motivation in team.

Make sure teams work gets proper visibility at upper management and keep upper management is sync with the talents, gaps the team has.

Required education

Bachelor's Degree

Preferred education

Master's Degree

Required technical and professional expertise

15-20 years of experience in

Managing teams of size as large as 80 members in area of firmware development/ software development
Managing project with global stakeholders.
Project Planning, Resource planning, mitigating risks, assessing risks well ahead.
Keep upto date with understanding the new technologies.
Will able to understand technically what team is working on, assessing them w.r.t to the work what they do.

Preferred technical and professional experience

Z projects management skills, Z product development life cycle, working with global teams, managing risks, System BUP

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