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Application Runtimes Development Manager

IBM

Hursley, UK · United Kingdom

Posted on Sep 17, 2025

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Introduction

We are seeking a senior Development Manager to lead a globally distributed team within the Application Runtimes portfolio. This role is critical to ensuring delivery continuity, technical leadership, and strategic alignment across Enterprise Application Service for Java (EASeJ) and WebSphere/Liberty on Cloud missions. The successful candidate will be based in Hursley and serve as a key leadership presence in one of our most strategic labs.

Your role and responsibilities

· Lead and manage senior developers across the UK and Americas.

· Drive execution of key roadmap items including EASeJ platform evolution.

· Act as a local leadership anchor in Hursley for the pillar, fostering collaboration across distributed teams.

· Partner with second-line leadership in India to ensure alignment and delivery continuity.

· Support talent development, mentoring, and succession planning.

· Collaborate with product management, architecture, and client engagement teams to ensure delivery excellence and technical credibility.

· Support client engagements and help drive successful understanding, adoption, and deployment of Application Runtimes products in the market.

Required education

Bachelor's Degree

Preferred education

Bachelor's Degree

Required technical and professional expertise

· Proven experience managing large size (15+) distributed development teams across multiple time zones.

· Strong technical background in cloud-native runtimes, DevOps, and enterprise middleware.

· Demonstrated success in leading complex delivery programs and managing senior technical talent.

· Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills, including client-facing engagement.

· Experience in organizational transition and scaling across geographies.

Preferred technical and professional experience

· Familiarity with EASeJ, Liberty, and WebSphere platforms.

· Prior experience in the Application Runtimes or related enterprise software domains.

· Experience working in or with strategic labs such as Hursley.

· Understanding of hybrid cloud deployment models and high availability architectures.

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IBM Software infuses core business operations with intelligence—from machine learning to generative AI—to help make organizations more responsive, productive, and resilient. IBM Software helps clients put AI into action now to create real value with trust, speed, and confidence across digital labor, IT automation, application modernization, security, and sustainability. Critical to this is the ability to make use of all data, because AI is only as good as the data that fuels it. In most organizations data is spread across multiple clouds, on premises, in private datacenters, and at the edge. IBM’s AI and data platform scales and accelerates the impact of AI with trusted data, and provides leading capabilities to train, tune and deploy AI across business. IBM’s hybrid cloud platform is one of the most comprehensive and consistent approach to development, security, and operations across hybrid environments—a flexible foundation for leveraging data, wherever it resides, to extend AI deep into a business.

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