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IT Team Lead (Kubernetes)
4 years ago
Job Description
Ubisoft Montreal, an industry leading developer of video games, located in the heart of Montreal’s Mile-End, offers a unique environment where creativity, teamwork and cutting-edge technology bring to life critically acclaimed video games and iconic AAA franchises.
When you join Ubi Montreal, you enter a community of passionate, extraordinary people connected by their need to innovate, to be creative and to work with the latest technology. You’ll discover a world where employees enjoy constant career advancement, a supportive learning environment, and competitive compensation packages.
Summary
IT Business Solution aims to consolidating its position as a partner for the business by providing breakthrough technological solutions suited to fit our player centric strategy. In addition, we must be flexible and reliable, providing top quality services & infrastructure to empower Ubisoft staff.
The IT Manager’s role is acting as key contact for each business area. Responsible of keeping excellent business relations with his business partners and ensuring the proper solutions will be delivered within its own team or functional stream of responsibility. He is also responsible of a projects/applications portfolio including request expertise, evolutions or new projects or products to be addressed within portfolio’s business scope and according to defined prioritizes for the different needs. The IT Manager closely follows up on-going projects and validates timeline, budget and deliverables are respected. He guarantees evolution capacities and global coherence of IT tools for the whole Ubisoft group. Therefore, he will have to come up with new ideas, be very thorough concerning any IT & technological innovations impacting his stream.
Mission
The main responsibilities of the IT Manager are to:
Client Relationship Management
- Always think and act with clients’ and end users’ satisfaction in mind
- Provide strategic counsel, visibility and consistent results to clients
- Communicate effectively with clients to identify needs and evaluate alternative business solutions
- Define & Manage governance to ensure good communication with clients (regular meetings/steering committee, project management, Facilitates prioritization of activities with business champion)
- Remain up-to-date on clients reality and constraints (busy season, performance review, year-end process … )
- In charge of building an IT roadmap in scope with business champions and under the supervision of the IT Director
Product management
- Determine client needs (production, direction) and help set out potential solutions with engineering;
- Develop the long-term functional vision for the product to which he/she is assigned in collaboration with the CPI and team leads;
- Set development priorities and follow up with team leads;
- Ensure the competitiveness of the products;
- Determine acceptable quality standards for product delivery;
- With engineering, determine the compromises that are required to deliver a product that meets client needs on time and on budget;
Team Management
- Manage a team to ensure smooth execution of IT strategy and clean roll out of projects
- Create an environment build on trust, open communication, creative thinking, and cohesive team effort
- Lead by setting a good example (role model) - behavior consistent with words
- Encourage creativity, risk-taking, and constant improvement
- Contribute to team development, expertise evolution, anticipate future needs and proposes training accordingly
- Set objectives and evaluates team members
- Work with department and local management to mitigate team conflict and communication problems
- Communicate with IT Managers within the department or other IT departments according to project needs and specificities
- Insure administrative tasks such as time and absence validation & performance review
- Insure communication to and within team on projects planning, project staffing, corporate events and changes, IT changes within or out of company
- Participate in the recruiting process with the project team
Qualifications
Training
- Bachelors’ degree in Business, IT, Computer Science or any related field.
Relevant experience
- 8-15 years in development team management;
- Management experience in a multicultural team’s environment and international scope.
Skills
- Good Leadership skills;
- Enthusiasm of open source software
- Keep up with latest technology trends and best practices in the industry
- Easily adaptable to changes. Encourage change and manage the implementation of new ideas;
- Excellent command in spoken & written English;
- French is an asset;
- Ability to ask penetrating questions, detect unstated assumptions and resolve conflicts;
- React to project adjustments and alterations promptly and efficiently;
- Ability to function effectively in a fast paced environment and manage multiple concurrent projects;
- Responsible, organized, persevering and autonomous;
- Excellent interpersonal skills displaying effective communication and presentation capabilities.
Knowledge
- Possess a good understanding of technical capabilities;
- Have a very good knowledge on the business areas;
- Experience with several programming languages (dynamic and compiled)
- Experience with scripting and automation (bash, Terraform, Ansible, Chef)
- Experience with container technologies (Docker, Kubernetes, flannel, CoreOS, containerd)
- Knowledge of distributed systems
Additional Information
We are an equal-opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, ethnicity, religion, gender, sexual orientation, age or disability status.
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