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Systems Architect I

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Activision Blizzard plays a centralized role in the creation of epic entertainment by supporting our interactive gaming brands and studios with a diverse range of career opportunities across corporate functions such as Marketing, Communications, Legal, Human Resources, Finance and Supply Chain. Located in our global headquarters in Santa Monica, we encompass equal parts agility, creativity and rigor to enhance the employee and player experience. To learn more, check us out at www.activisionblizzard.com or on Twitter at @ATVI_AB.

Your Mission

The Activision Player Support team has an exciting new opportunity for a System Architect I. This role will address an integral role in our growing internal development and support technology team. You will be involved in the development and implementation strategy of internal and cloud-base systems. This person will be responsible for implementing, maintaining, and operating these systems.

The Systems Architect I is a part of a dynamic, fun, and highly collaborative environment where they will be involved in helping to lead project implementation, system development, and any related training efforts; Serving as a key technical role in crafting system solutions to support web production, and our ever-growing support business. You’ll work on a variety of technical projects collaborating with team members throughout our global organization as-well as help convert abstract business ideas into technical architectures, designs, and implementations.

Priorities can often change in a fast-paced environment like ours, so this role includes, but is not limited to, the following responsibilities:

• Responsible for systems architecture, data management and integration design across Player Support’s systems, tools and suite of applications
• Operate as authority on end to end integrations across and between any platform hybrid (cloud and on-premise), Cloud-to-cloud, public/private cloud, on-premise
• Design and architecture of private and public cloud infrastructure
• Develop and deploy applications using organization's technology best practices, standards and procedures
• Build and Maintain enterprise level architecture diagrams
• Participate in discovery, requirements collecting, architecture design, detailed design and data mapping
• Participate in the design of firewall and network security
• Conduct audits on implemented systems infrastructure and architecture to ensure processes and systems run nominally, while remaining secure and meeting data compliance regulations
• Convert business designs into functional real-world applications
• Identify gaps between current and desired future states
• Work in an agile, rapid development and prototyping environment
• Evaluation of new software and hardware technologies in collaboration with vendors and partners

Player Profile

Minimum Requirements:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Technology or an equivalent combination of education and experience
• 3+ years' experience with Enterprise architecture and integration
• 3+ years' Experience with building enterprise-class systems and integrations with consideration to stability, excess, and security practices
• 2+ years' experience working within a cloud based environment while integrating with cloud based or legacy on premise solutions.
• Shown enterprise architecture documentation skills

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• 2+ years directly involved with Adobe Experience Manager development (AEM 6.0/6.2/6.3)
• GCP/GCS, Mulesoft, Salesforce experience a plus
• Experience working with third party services, APIs, and content management systems
• Demonstrable understanding of how to establish short-term, mid-term and long-range architecture plans

Our World

Activision Blizzard, Inc. (NASDAQ: ATVI), is one of the world's largest and most successful interactive entertainment companies and is at the intersection of media, technology and entertainment. We are home to some of the most beloved entertainment franchises including Call of Duty ®, World of Warcraft® , Overwatch ®, Diablo ®, Candy Crush ™ and Bubble Witch ™. Our combined entertainment network delights hundreds of millions of monthly active users in 196 countries, making us the largest gaming network on the planet!

Our ability to build immersive and innovate worlds is only enhanced by diverse teams working in an inclusive environment. We aspire to have a culture where everyone can thrive in order to connect and engage the world through epic entertainment. We provide a suite of benefits that promote physical, emotional and financial well-being for ‘Every World’ - we’ve got our employees covered!

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.

Activision is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, national origin, protected veteran status, or any other basis protected by applicable law and will not be discriminated against on the basis of disability.