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Technical Director - Partner Engineering

Blizzard Entertainment

Foster City California 94404 United States of America

2 years ago

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Team Name:

Job Title:

Technical Director - Partner Engineering

Requisition ID:

R006484

Job Description:

As a technical leader, the Tech Director will shape the future of Kings Partner Engineering tea. Working closely with the teams to implement the product vision, enabling our loyalty proposition and develop engineering practices as well as a great architecture to support the business now and well into the future.

Your role within our Kingdom

As a talented technical leader:

Manage our technical support manager(s) and the technical coordination with external platforms.
Initiate, identify platform changes that have implications on King technology stack as well as participate and drive joint efforts with game teams and shared tech to mitigate.
Collect and consolidate technical analysis from King and drive technical feedback and recommendations from King to the platforms.
Evaluate, test and analyze new platform APIs and initiatives and provide recommendations as to which are likely to create value/opportunities or challenges to the King games and business.

Skills to create thrills:

Excellent communication and leadership skills with experienced inter-department tech communication
Excellent Incident and Crisis management, you remain calm and methodically work through the process from mitigation to retrospective and feed the results back into our day to day operations
Ability to clearly document and present technical detail for a variety of audiences
Ability to facilitate discussions, ensure everyone participates and that a path forward
is agreed

Deep understanding of high scalability
Ability mentor and guide developers and the team on technical aspects

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