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Software Development Manager

IBM

Software Engineering

Durham, NC, USA

Posted on Mar 11, 2026

Introduction

At IBM Software, we transform client challenges into solutions. Building the world’s leading AI-powered, cloud-native products that shape the future of business and society. Our legacy of innovation creates endless opportunities for IBMers to learn, grow, and make an impact on a global scale. Working in Software means joining a team fueled by curiosity and collaboration. You’ll work with diverse technologies, partners, and industries to design, develop, and deliver solutions that power digital transformation. With a culture that values innovation, growth, and continuous learning, IBM Software places you at the heart of IBM’s product and technology landscape. Here, you’ll have the tools and opportunities to advance your career while creating software that changes the world.

Your role and responsibilities

Your roles and responsibilities will include:

Lead, mentor, and develop a high‑performing software development team
Execute a roadmap to reduce technical complexity, eliminate redundancy, and streamline tooling, architectures, and workflows across the platform.
Establish common development frameworks, IaC practices, and shared services that work seamlessly across on‑prem and cloud services
Partner with platform engineering, DevOps, architecture, and security teams to ensure simplification initiatives align with our simplification strategy
Partner with Product Management and Architecture on planning, prioritization, and execution
Foster a culture of technical excellence, ownership, and collaboration
Guide the team in adopting modern development practices, tooling, DevOps, and automation
Define, drive, and mature enterprise‑grade CI/CD strategies, ensuring scalable, automated, and reliable delivery pipelines.
Conduct performance reviews, provide coaching, and support career progression
Ensure compliance with security, data protection, and regulatory requirements
Promote innovation, experimentation, and continuous learning within the team
Define, together with team members, their career trajectory within IBM and work to make them successful.
Maintain a constant overview of the team’s work progress and workload to share with stakeholders if necessary.

Required education

High School Diploma/GED

Preferred education

Bachelor's Degree

Required technical and professional expertise

Demonstrated experience leading and developing high‑performing teams.
Experience in coaching, mentoring, training staff and setting expectations to achieve desired outcomes
Strong communication skills with the ability to translate complex technical concepts for diverse audiences.
Experience driving delivery, prioritization, and execution in agile or hybrid development environments.
Track record of fostering an inclusive, collaborative, and psychologically safe team culture.
Ability to balance people leadership with strategic planning and operational excellence.
Skilled at stakeholder management across product, design, architecture, and executive leadership.
Strong decision‑making abilities grounded in data, risk evaluation, and customer needs.

Preferred technical and professional experience

Business Operations Knowledge: Experience with managing business operations, including revenue performance, expense control, and profit management. Ability to analyze financial data and make informed decisions to drive business growth.
Quality Assurance Expertise: Experience in implementing and maintaining quality assurance processes, ensuring compliance with industry standards and regulatory requirements.
Financial Planning Skills: Experience with developing and administering budgets, forecasts, and financial reports to support business objectives.

ABOUT BUSINESS UNIT

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.

YOUR LIFE @ IBM

In a world where technology never stands still, we understand that, dedication to our clients success, innovation that matters, and trust and personal responsibility in all our relationships, lives in what we do as IBMers as we strive to be the catalyst that makes the world work better.

Being an IBMer means you’ll be able to learn and develop yourself and your career, you’ll be encouraged to be courageous and experiment everyday, all whilst having continuous trust and support in an environment where everyone can thrive whatever their personal or professional background.

Our IBMers are growth minded, always staying curious, open to feedback and learning new information and skills to constantly transform themselves and our company. They are trusted to provide on-going feedback to help other IBMers grow, as well as collaborate with colleagues keeping in mind a team focused approach to include different perspectives to drive exceptional outcomes for our customers. The courage our IBMers have to make critical decisions everyday is essential to IBM becoming the catalyst for progress, always embracing challenges with resources they have to hand, a can-do attitude and always striving for an outcome focused approach within everything that they do.

Are you ready to be an IBMer?

ABOUT IBM

IBM’s greatest invention is the IBMer. We believe that through the application of intelligence, reason and science, we can improve business, society and the human condition, bringing the power of an open hybrid cloud and AI strategy to life for our clients and partners around the world.

Restlessly reinventing since 1911, we are not only one of the largest corporate organizations in the world, we’re also one of the biggest technology and consulting employers, with many of the Fortune 500 companies relying on the IBM Cloud to run their business.

At IBM, we pride ourselves on being an early adopter of artificial intelligence, quantum computing and blockchain. Now it’s time for you to join us on our journey to being a responsible technology innovator and a force for good in the world.

IBM is proud to be an equal-opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, pregnancy, disability, neurodivergence, age, or other characteristics protected by the applicable law. IBM is also committed to compliance with all fair employment practices regarding citizenship and immigration status.

OTHER RELEVANT JOB DETAILS

IBM offers a competitive and comprehensive benefits program. Eligible employees may have access to:

- Healthcare benefits including medical & prescription drug coverage, dental, vision, and mental health & well being

- Financial programs such as 401(k), cash balance pension plan, the IBM Employee Stock Purchase Plan, financial counseling, life insurance, short & long- term disability coverage, and opportunities for performance based salary incentive programs

- Generous paid time off including 12 holidays, minimum 56 hours sick time, 120 hours vacation, 12 weeks parental bonding leave in accordance with IBM Policy, and other Paid Care Leave programs. IBM also offers paid family leave benefits to eligible employees where required by applicable law

- Training and educational resources on our personalized, AI-driven learning platform where IBMers can grow skills and obtain industry-recognized certifications to achieve their career goals

- Diverse and inclusive employee resource groups, giving & volunteer opportunities, and discounts on retail products, services & experiences

We consider qualified applicants with criminal histories, consistent with applicable law.

This position was posted on the date cited in the key job details section and is anticipated to remain posted for 21 days from this date or less if not needed to fill the role.

IBM will not be providing visa sponsorship for this position now or in the future. Therefore, in order to be considered for this position, you must have the ability to work without a need for current or future visa sponsorship.

The compensation range and benefits for this position are based on a full-time schedule for a full calendar year. The salary will vary depending on your job-related skills, experience and location. Pay increment and frequency of pay will be in accordance with employment classification and applicable laws. For part time roles, your compensation and benefits will be adjusted to reflect your hours. Benefits may be pro-rated for those who start working during the calendar year.

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