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Lead Build Engineer [Assassin's Creed VR] (516)

Job Description

What will you do.

• Build an effective team to ensure it is fully resourced, a manageable size and a good mix of levels and foster the team player culture;
• Plan, prioritise and set inspiring objectives for your team members all year long;
• Empower your team members with clear expectations and hold them accountable for their key results;
• Provide your team members with ongoing and meaningful feedback on performance and development -- ensuring positive acknowledgement of all achievements, both big and small;
• Enable your team members to reflect and prepare their future in their role and at Ubisoft;
• Engage and positively influence team members and stakeholders around a vision;
• Navigate through ambiguity and embrace change with a positive mindset;
• Create the environment for initiatives and ideas to emerge and grow;
• Care about people: be exemplary and supportive;
• Communicate with impact and promote an open dialogue within your team.

Other Responsibilities

• Ensure your team participates in standard studio development processes;
• Liaise with internal and external middleware technology providers, and console manufacturers;
• Architect build systems to support project needs;
• Maintain the build farm and build machines within it;
• Work with IT and Production to ensure the build farm can meet project requirements;
• Work as a key part of an agile development team, taking responsibility for organising and planning their own work;
• Stay up-to-date with technology advances within the field;
• Perform code review for peers;
• Assist less experienced build engineers;
• Capture and analyse data from the build farm to help define future development of the build system and build farm;

What will you bring.

Knowledge of common online systems;

Understanding of speed and memory considerations, and able to implement basic optimisations;

Ability to analyse unfamiliar code of a reasonable complexity to understand, extend and refactor an existing module;

Ability to debug defects of a reasonable complexity, including memory related issues, and multi-threading;

Knowledge of a source control system (e.g. Perforce) and of script languages (e.g. C#, Perl, Python, Lua);

Knowledge of build configuration and makefiles along with build management tools (e.g. Jenkins);

Knowledge of all areas of the build pipeline;

Knowledge of common algorithms, data structures and patterns, and their application;

Ability to analyse unfamiliar code of a reasonable complexity to understand, extend and refactor functionality of an existing module;

Knowledge of difference software development methods such as Test-Driven Development, Unit Testing, Agile, etc;

Knowledge of console platform submission requirements (TRCs, XRs, etc.) is desirable;

Ability to adapt to change;

Good interpersonal and communication skills.

Additional Information

Benefits & Relocation

We’re offering flexible working with some remote work available, 25 days annual leave + Christmas shutdown (usually 3 days), private healthcare (with option to add immediate family), life insurance & income protection, workplace pension scheme, paid volunteering days, annual fitness & well-being allowance, games, technology & merchandise, subsidised travel and excellent relocation support, should you need it!

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