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Technical Director - Corporate Technologies

Job Description

Behaviour is looking for a talented Technical Director to work within our Corporate Technologies team that supports our internal frameworks, tools and services for the production team. The services you will be responsible for are a backend service, client SDKs, builds automation and data analytics pipeline. The chosen candidate will have to help by mitigating the risks of each of those services and making sure decisions taken are safe and durable for the enterprise. That person will also have a few tech leads to supervise at an Expert level.

In this position you will be the point of contact of other Technical Directors distributed across our multiple projects. You will help coordinate the various high-level scoping and aligning our different services in terms of technology. The chosen candidate must be fully-autonomous and able to organise his own workload, handling priorities depending on Productions requirements. Because of the nature of our team, it's important that the candidate have a wide interest in many different technologies, from engine to backend. While the candidate doesn't need to be an expert in all those technologies, he needs to be aware of the various challenges brought forwards by those technologies.

What will you do ?

• Steer and guide the technological decisions across a multi-disciplinary team;
• Make high level design and architecture choices;
• Dictate technical standards, and guide the development team;
• Define the technological strategy with the development team;
• Assess the technical risks and mitigation plans;
• Select the appropriate technologies given the project's constraints;
• Harness others' technical expertise to get the best possible solutions;
• Mentor key technical staff;
• Interview candidates for technical positions;
• Work closely with other directors, leads, and developers to support project and company strategies;
• Act occasionally as a developer to collaborate on high-impact, complex features or Tools.

Qualifications

• Previous experience as a Technical Director within a central technology team;
• At least 8 years of development experience in a similar technology position;
• Experience with Unity is a requirement and knowledge of Unreal a plus;
• Experience with backend development is important for the role;
• Knowledge in the AWS cloud services is important for the role;
• Ability to self-organize and work very autonomously;
• Ability to cooperate and consult with other directors, leads, and staff;
• Ability to communicate well. Must be able to vulgarize technical concepts for both a technical and non-technical audience;
• Ability to define and break down complex technical mandates and architectures.

Additional Information

All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guideline.

We are an equal-opportunity employer and we are proud to foster a workplace free from discrimination. We strongly believe that diversity of experience, perspectives and background will lead to a better environment for our employees and to better games for our users.

Company Description

Founded in 1992, Montreal-based Behaviour Interactive is one of North America’s largest independent game developers with close to 600 employees and over 70 million games sold on every platform. To date, the company’s games have reached more than 200 million players worldwide. In 2019, its most successful IP, the award-winning Dead by DaylightTM, celebrated 12 million players. Behaviour counts amongst its partners some of the world’s most recognized brands such as Sony, Disney, Netflix, Activision, Warner Bros, Ubisoft, Xbox Game Studios, Google, Bombardier, Wargaming, HBO, NetEase, Gaea, La Capitale, and many more. For more information: bhvr.com.