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IBM Team Lead role (BE - Java focus) in Prague, Czech Republic

Introduction

At IBM, work is more than a job - it's a calling: To build. To design. To code. To consult. To think along with clients and sell. To make markets. To invent. To collaborate. Not just to do something better, but to attempt things you've never thought possible. Are you ready to lead in this new era of technology and solve some of the world's most challenging problems? If so, lets talk.

Your Role and Responsibilities

We are looking for an experienced Engineering Team Lead to join our Data and AI Development team. You will work as part of the Data and AI Development team with a focus on the following key responsibilities:

  • Lead a team of Back-End engineers working on several services within IBM data governance software (IBM Knowledge Catalog).

  • Develop and grow your team members.

  • Be hands-on working on features.

  • Continuously work to keep your team focused and productive.

  • Partner with your Product counterparty and negotiate, agree, and plan the team scope and priorities.

  • Partner with Architecture and other engineers to discuss, agree and deliver out target architecture.

  • Ensure delivery is done according to commitments (time, scope, and quality), by monitoring progress, tracking dependencies, removing blockers for team members, and managing risks.

  • Provide upline managers with clear status on activities, decisions, and risks.

Required Technical and Professional Expertise

  • 5 - 8 years of proven experience working in complex systems in an enterprise context

  • Proven exposure to modern engineering practices (e.g. test automation, CI/CD, etc.)

  • 2+ years of experience in people management and delivery coordination.

  • Strong technical background in Java and Spring Boot, preferably in complex systems.

  • Good organizational and analytical skills.

  • Exposure to agile software development practices.

  • Good verbal and written communication skills.

  • Ability to lead and drive collaboration within teams and across IBM.

Preferred Technical and Professional Expertise

  • Experience working in Scrum and/or Kanban practices.

  • Experience building a SaaS product.

  • Experience organizing on-call rota schemes and providing support to Production.

  • Experience with technologies that are part of our tech stack: Java 11 / 17, Spring Boot, ActiveMQ-Artemis, React 16+, JavaScript, TypeScript, Maven, Git, Docker, Kubernetes and Openshift.

  • Experience working in collaborative and globally distributed environment.

  • Leading organizational transformation, both technically and organizationally.

About Business UnitIBM 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 @ IBMIn 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 IBMIBM'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.

Location StatementFor additional information about location requirements, please discuss with the recruiter following submission of your application.

Being You @ IBMIBM is committed to creating a diverse environment and 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, caste, genetics, pregnancy, disability, neurodivergence, age, veteran status, or other characteristics. IBM is also committed to compliance with all fair employment practices regarding citizenship and immigration status.

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