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Senior Software Technical Director

Overview:

Electronic Arts Inc. is a global interactive entertainment software company with a clear vision for the future of gaming – connecting a billion people around the world to play. We want to amaze our players and continue leading the growth and transformation of our industry through the EA Player Network.

Team:

EAX is an awesome team within EA which leads several digital distribution and subscription products including Origin and EA Access. We bring the Player Network to life through amazing content, connected across devices, delivered through the cloud… all through a service that enables more players access to all of the games they want to play, as much as they want, and how they want.

What you will do:

• You will report to the Head of Engineering
• Provide technical leadership and team management to a team of experienced engineers in a multi-functional leadership setting,
• Support both in-market (Origin) and next-generation unannounced products.
• Achieve cross-platform consumer experiences, including the ability to play games, commerce integration, social and in- game, supported by a combination of cross-platform native desktop apps, SDKs, websites, and backend services
• Partner with internal Product Management, Design, Backend, SRE, Quality Verification and Automation teams, and our vendors.
• Work with technical leadership and other groups to determine, roadmap and achieve the best technical strategy and engineering standards to ensure our business direction
• Balance how we achieve our product vision with scalable development practices that allow us to be agile & foster innovation
• Build a balanced architecture and delivery strategy for our next generation of products
• Help establish the important performance and quality metrics and ensure that there is no unmotivated long-term drift against what we need to achieve
• Determine and track engineering goals and success criteria and metrics.
• Create mitigation plans for technical risks including online security.
• Work with Production and other partners to break down high-level requirements into development strategies.
• Be a mentor to other members of the team.
• Provide career management, development plans to direct reports and help set and track individual development goals.
• Establish and support a team growth strategy.
• Attract and retain top engineering talent.

You will have:

• 10+ years leading global engineering teams and supporting one or more products across multiple domains of expertise with a focus on cross-platform desktop applications and direct knowledge of web applications and scalable backend services integration.
• 7+ years hands-on experience developing C/C++ cross-platform desktop application development
• A track record delivering live products at scale.
• Experience architecting end-to-end for complex tools and products
• Experience with and a passion for Continuous Delivery, and Agile development, including feature flags and experimentation frameworks
• Experience with operational considerations for shipping product to tens or hundreds of millions of users, including live service support considerations
• Experience integrating with service oriented architectures
• Champion of SOLID/DRY/GRASP development principles
• Understanding of common architectural and design patterns
• Experience with multi-threading and asynchronous programming
• Expertise in optimizing solutions for performance / low footprint
• Excellent verbal, written and presentational skills
• Minimum BS degree in Computer Science or related field

Attributes you'll have:

• You will aim for results
• Someone who inspires change and is forward-looking, able to reduce challenges through leadership and communication
• Team morale builder who positively inspires others
• Driver for agreement and able to find ways to break a agreement loop when needed
• Delegate to a group of individuals either through direct reporting or cross functionally when needed
• Lifelong learner and with a continuous improvement mindset

You might have:

• External and embedded development using contractors
• Experience with cross platform frameworks - Qt, React Native, Electron.
• Common graphics rendering pipelines like DirectX and OpenGL
• DRM and encryption experience
• js, Apollo, React/React Native
• Git, P4, Jira