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Technical Development Coordinator

The Position
Avalanche Studios Group is looking for a Technical Development Coordinatorto work within our Publishing Services Team, whose focus is on providing cross-divisional support in the cultivation of sustainable game development practices.

As a member of the DevOps Team: you’ll be an advocate for our game development teams, specialized in driving and championing operational improvements. This role will focus on improving our games’ development processes, pipelines, and internal tools; optimizing for stability and quality in our game builds with an assist from the tech solutions we can muster.

This role will be in frequent contact with ASG’s Game Development Teams, IT, Central Tech, Release Management, Backend Systems, and members of each Division’s Management Team.

What you'll be doing:

Developing skills to:

• Assist technical leadership in their support of game development teams:
• Coordinate and conduct discovery and analysis of current state, including process, culture, and technology capabilities
• Collate and refine detailed functional and nonfunctional requirements in order to inform future state design
• Conduct solution analysis, testing, and provides guidance on common industry practices and technologies
• Collaborate with developers, engineers, and our other support teams to design, deploy, manage, and document integrated processes and pipelines.
• Work with our specialists across teams to define requirements for new solutions, and identify best practices that will guide the development of future game titles.
• Architect, design, troubleshoot, and improve upon highly-scalable and high-performing process ecosystems
• Drive the planning, creation, optimization, and/or rollout of improvements for high performance, scalable, and reliable internal support mechanisms
• Collaborate with Build Engineers, Production, and Programming Leads to design and/or adapt development ecosystems to suit project needs.
• Identify, communicate, and resolve risks/conflicts that may arise between technical support teams and game development teams
• Collaborate with multidisciplinary teams to identify and investigate opportunities for workflow improvement
• Collaborate with developers and engineers to design, deploy, manage and document Pipelines.

While being mission focused you would be coached to:

• Be an effective problem solver
• Deal with ambiguity and unknowns
• Connect with The Big Picture while understanding complexities within game development
• Call out barriers to delivery

Desired Qualifications:

• 2+ years of experience in technical areas of project development (eg technical QA, build engineering, technical project management, IT development)
• 2+ years of leadership experience within IT, QA, Programming, or other technical team
• Clear communication skills coupled with a strong desire for personal development and learning
• Curiosity paired with creative problem-solving skills
• Comfortable working independently, within a small strike team, and between teams
• Ability to conduct deep dives into tech sys/infrastructure, and identify interdependencies
• Inclined toward careful and diligent information-tracking
• Comfortable driving (or assisting to drive) updates to game studio infrastructure and tools
• Operational at multiple zoom levels; enjoys the weeds as much as the 1,000 ft view
• Some familiarity with: Perforce Helix (or other VCS), Hansoft, Jira, Jenkins

Employee promise

We provide goals, instead of instructions, and the opportunity to do the best work of your career.

Our Values

At Avalanche Studios Group, we believe in worlds beyond limits, we are committed to developing a diverse and inclusive workplace. We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. Everyone at Avalanche Studios Group has a shared responsibility to create an open and inclusive work environment where everyone is treated equally and with respect. Being part of our world is not contingent on where you’re from, your gender, or sexual orientation. It’s all about your passion and creativity.

How to Apply

We will only consider applications that consist of both a cover letter and a CV. In your cover letter you should include why you want to work at Avalanche Studios Group. For this role you need to be able to work full-time in our Stockholm office.

To apply for this position please register below. Apply as soon as possible as we review applications continuously. All further information is provided under non-disclosure agreement only.