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Head of Game Creation Platform Engineering

Electronic Arts
Orlando Florida United States
2 years ago
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The Challenge Ahead

This is a key technical leadership role in the Game Development & Infrastructure Services (GDIS) team and offers a recognized expert the opportunity to envision, design and build a variety of enterprise-level solutions in support of Application Lifecycle Management for EA’s video game studios and central services teams. The core mission will focus on the development of a game creation platform that will integrate the many applications and tools required to develop video games into a tightly integrated platform, delivering an exceptional experience for EA's game creators. The game creation platform will require solution architectures incorporating custom, COTS and packaged applications together with integrations with products such as Jira, Perforce, and GitLab. These solutions are built upon a cloud-first philosophy and leverage public cloud services from leading providers such as Azure, AWS and Google. Coupled with the power of the cloud, the ideal candidate will have people management responsibilities over Agile development teams to architect, design and engineer applications that will support thousands of concurrent users.

About Head of Game Creation Platform Engineering

GDIS is seeking a Head of Game Creation Platform Engineering to lead the transformation of a portfolio of applications that support our game development products, solutions, and tooling into an integrated game creation platform. The Head of Game Creation Platform Engineering will lead direction, innovation, and strategy for software development, platform engineering, and cloud products throughout the enterprise supporting the creation of EA’s video game portfolio.

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We love to brag about our great perks like comprehensive health and benefit packages; and of course, free video games. And since we realize it takes world-class people to make world-class games, we offer competitive compensation packages and a culture that thrives from creativity and individuality. At EA, we live the “work hard/play hard” credo every day.

Don’t Just Play It – Create It!

It’s not easy building the world’s best digital playground. It’s hair-standing-on-end exhilarating. It’s down-in-the-trenches challenging. It’s stroke-of-brilliance-at-midnight creative. It’s you—taking risks, challenging yourself, pursuing ideas, changing the way millions of people do something they love: play. In an industry that’s changing every day, EA is positioned for growth thanks to smart business plans, strategic acquisitions, and most importantly, our creative people around the world who gather each day to unite the world through play. We take that last part very seriously, so if what you’re reading excites you as much as it does us, apply today.

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