**Introduction** The IBM Z Software Performance team is responsible for designing, executing, and analyzing stress workloads/benchmarks on the IBM Z and LinuxONE systems to ensure these systems meet customer expectations. There are many tools/automation scripts developed to carry out performance environment setup/configuration, performance measurements, capturing various data points, storing them in a common database, presentation of data, analysis of the captured data and finally visual presentation of multiple comparisons. . **Your role and responsibilities** The IBM Z Software Performance team is responsible for designing, executing, and analyzing stress workloads/benchmarks on the IBM Z and LinuxONE systems to ensure these systems meet customer expectations. There are many tools/automation scripts developed to carry out performance environment setup/configuration, performance measurements, capturing various data points, storing them in a common database, presentation of data, analysis of the captured data and finally visual presentation of multiple comparisons. As a tools Development Manager, you will manage team which will design, create new tools, and enhance and maintain the existing tools. During this one has to collaborate with various stakeholders in the performance team, understand the usage of the tool, pain points of the users, and accrodingly bring in new changes to the tools to make the user comfortable and accomplish the task whatever they want to. As management leader: Responsible for the Deliverables assigned to the team. Manage, guide the team to achieve the committed goals within timelines provided by program management Asses, 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 programm management meetings and act upon any communications. Assign/allocate the teams as per the requirement of the projects Manage/ couse 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 technical and professional expertise** 15-20 years of experience in Managing teams of size as large as 15 - 25 members in area of firmware/software, development/testing Managing project with global stake holders. Project Planning, Resource planning, mitigating risks, assessing risks well ahead. Keep upto date with under standing 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** Preferred: Z projects management skills, preferably in performance measurement area, working with global teams, managing risks, System BUP