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Job Title: Associate Solutions Architect

Department: B&OP Platform Integrations

Location: Irvine, CA

Your Mission

The Platform Integrations team is responsible for helping game teams successfully integrate with Blizzard Entertainment’s world-class Battle.net platform. Using a variety of services, tools, and software development kits, we partner with teams to deliver a highly scalable yet easy to use platform that lets game developers remain focused on creating epic gameplay experiences.

As a Solutions Architect, you will have the opportunity to help shape the next generation of Activision Blizzard Battle.net offerings from social to commerce while also developing your skills and furthering your career with one of the most innovate video game companies in the world. You’ll partner closely with engineers and product managers across multiple teams to ensure that client and server best practices are used to build scalable, flexible, and resilient systems within our games and on the web.

We value diversity on our team, as well as a healthy work-life balance, and we strive to staff appropriately to meet both those goals. We recognize that the best ideas and most creative work come from a safe and inclusive workforce, and we endeavor to protect that.

If the idea of partnering with some of the largest gaming franchises in the world, including World of Warcraft, Overwatch, Diablo, and Call of Duty, to build epic integrated gaming experiences excites you, we want to hear from you.

RESPONSIBILITIES

• Onboarding new integrations: Guide teams through the process of integrating with the battle.net platform by understanding their requirements, service configuration, curating integration guides, answering questions, diagnosing logs, creating sample projects, and more.
• Support the evolution of Live Service Games: Help teams as they continue to evolve their live service games with new features and offerings from the Battle.net platform.
• Communicating with stakeholders: Maintain clear lines of communication between various teams by maintaining checklists, tracking issues, ensuring team understands existing platform offerings and identifying feature gaps.
• Ensuring Integration Quality: Ensure integrations are battle tested before reaching players. This includes guiding teams towards the correct implementation of Battle.net capabilities, certifying games for quality integrations, and supporting integration modernizations.
• Maintaining integrations after initial launch: Establish best in class practices around telemetry and alerting, as well as partnering with teams to maintain state of the art integrations as the platform evolves.
• Technical documentation and tools: Design and author high quality technical documentation, integration guides, support tools, and samples code for our partners.
• Identifying improvement opportunities: Continuously identifying areas of improvement in all phases in the integration process from planning to post launch.

REQUIREMENTS

• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills, with a partnership mindset and empathetic approach.
• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, or equivalent experience.

PLUSES

• Software domain experience, including delivering and integrating systems and APIs to multiple consumers.
• Familiarity with high availability and scalability architectural concepts
• Knowledgeable in various forms of testing including integration, regression, acceptance, functional and load testing.
• Understanding of web technologies at scale: HTTP, JSON, OAuth, edge caching, etc.
• Comfortable with Java, C++, and/or C#

We love hearing from anyone who is enthusiastic about changing the games industry. Not sure you meet all qualifications? Let us decide! Research shows that women and members of other under-represented groups tend to not apply to jobs when they think they may not meet every qualification, when, in fact, they often do! We are committed to creating a diverse and inclusive environment and strongly encourage you to apply.

We are committed to working with and providing reasonable assistance to individuals with physical and mental disabilities. If you are a disabled individual requiring an accommodation to apply for an open position, please email your request to accommodationrequests@activisionblizzard.com. General employment questions cannot be accepted or processed here. Thank you for your interest.

Our World

At Blizzard Entertainment, we pour our hearts and souls into everything we create. Best known for iconic video game universes including Warcraft, Overwatch, Diablo, and StarCraft, we’ve been creating genre-defining games for millions of players around the world for more than 30 years. We’re on a quest: bring our dreams to life and craft the most epic entertainment experiences…ever. Hard work, iteration and polish go into the Blizzard “secret recipe,” but the most important ingredients come from talented people who share our vision. If that sounds like you, join us.

The videogame industry and therefore our business is fast-paced and will continue to evolve. As such, the duties and responsibilities of this role may be changed as directed by the Company at any time to promote and support our business and relationships with industry partners.

We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status, among other characteristics.

Rewards

We provide a suite of benefits that promote physical, emotional and financial well-being for ‘Every World’ - we’ve got our employees covered! Subject to eligibility requirements, the Company offers comprehensive benefits including:

• Medical, dental, vision, health savings account or health reimbursement account, healthcare spending accounts, dependent care spending accounts, life and AD&D insurance, disability insurance;
• 401(k) with Company match, tuition reimbursement, charitable donation matching;
• Paid holidays and vacation, paid sick time, floating holidays, compassion and bereavement leaves, parental leave;
• Mental health & wellbeing programs, fitness programs, free and discounted games, and a variety of other voluntary benefit programs like supplemental life & disability, legal service, ID protection, rental insurance, and others;
• If the Company requires that you move geographic locations for the job, then you may also be eligible for relocation assistance.

Eligibility to participate in these benefits may vary for part time and temporary full-time employees and interns with the Company. You can learn more by visiting https://www.benefitsforeveryworld.com/ .