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We are looking for an experienced Software Development Manager to join our team whose work directly impacts the flow of global commerce through IBM Financial Transaction Manager (FTM) platform. FTM serves as the central nervous system for top-tier financial institutions, orchestrating complex payment lifecycles across diverse international standards like SWIFT, SEPA, and various real-time payment networks.

The team you lead and the products you delivery is critical to the operational success and security of IBM's top-tier financial clients worldwide.At IBM, you will tackle these complex challenges using the latest software development tools, agile techniques, and modern architectural patterns. You'll focus on innovation and the integration of AI and Agentic AI to build resilient, high-performance financial solutions you can be truly proud of.

Your role and responsibilities

As a Senior Software Development Manager, you'll manage software development, enhance product experiences, and scale our team's capabilities. You'll manage careers, streamline hiring, collaborate with product, and drive innovation, especially with embracing AI and Agentic AI. We seek proactive professionals passionate about team growth, software architecture, coding, and process enhancements.

Your primary responsibilities include:

•Solution Development:You will directly manage a team of developers and lead them to design and deliver impactful and critical requirements for IBM's Financial Transaction Manager (FTM) money-moving platform.You will also have direct responsibilities for leading and delivering on our product release roadmap schedules delivering features and payment specification mandates.You will be a part of our agile, worldwide organization, utilizing your communication and leadership skills to help drive innovation and embracing AI and Agentic AI into our products.

•Client Partnership:You will have the opportunity to work directly with our clients and build relationships and manage their success with our products.

•Strategic Partnership: You will partner with product managers, clients, and other engineering leaders to build/refine the product roadmap and establish engineering goals. You will collaborate with the leadership team, presenting executive and mid-level management status reports, and continuously manage trade-offs between scope, resources and time during the development lifecycle.

•Technical Direction: Provide technical guidance by actively participating in architectural discussions, developing code, and advocating for new process improvements to drive innovation and efficiency.

Leaders are expected to spend time with their teams and clients and therefore are generally expected to be in the workplace a minimum of three days a week subject to business needs.

Required education

High School Diploma/GED

Preferred education

Bachelor's Degree

Required technical and professional expertise

•Management Experience: 7+ years of experience as software development manager and individual contributor

•Agile Management: Proven track-record as a technical advisor in multiple projects within an complex agile environment.

•Cloud Computing: Experience with Kubernetes/RedHat OpenShift and cloud computing technologies such as IBM, AWS, or Azure.

•Client management: 5+ years of experience with managing client relationships and deployments, resolving defects and ensuring production success.

Preferred technical and professional experience

•Financial Payments: Experience, knowledge of payment workflows and ISO20022 specifications.

•Full-Stack Development Mastery: Expertise in both front-end and back-end development.

•Software Product Delivery: Experience with publishing software releases and the many requirements/processes involved with publishing.

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 50 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 qualifiedapplicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race,color, religion, sex, gender, gender identity or expression, sexualorientation, national origin, caste, genetics, pregnancy, disability,neurodivergence, age, veteran status, or other characteristics. IBM is alsocommitted to compliance with all fair employment practices regardingcitizenship 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), 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.

Job Title

Software Development Manager

Date posted

01-Aug-2025

Job ID

50478

City / Township / Village

RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK

State / Province

North Carolina

Country

United States

Work arrangement

Onsite

Area of work

Software Engineering

Employment type

Regular

Contract type

Regular

Projected Minimum Salary per year

161,000.00

Projected Maximum Salary per year

276,000.00

Position type

Professional

Some travel may be required based on business demand

Company

(0147) International Business Machines Corporation

Shift

General (daytime)

Is this role a commissionable/sales incentive based position?

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