Associate Technical Director

Description & Requirements

Electronic Arts creates next-level entertainment experiences that inspire players and fans around the world. Here, everyone is part of the story. Part of a community that connects across the globe. A place where creativity thrives, new perspectives are invited, and ideas matter. A team where everyone makes play happen.

We are EA

For more than fifteen years we've entertained millions of players around the world with our award-winning games. Our teams have expressed their passion for outstanding game feel, audio-visual quality and technical innovation in the Need for Speed, Battlefield and Star Wars Battlefront franchises.
The Challenge Ahead

We are DRE (Development & Release Engineering) - a central EA team at the intersection of DevOps, Release Management and Build Engineering. We build, manage and maintain the build pipelines for the majority of EA's studios worldwide. We are looking for an Associate Technical director for our DRE Cobra team that is based in Europe who can be both hands-on and a people manager for approximately 5 engineers

In your role as an Associate Technical Director, you will help us grow and develop a strong team, setting and driving the execution of technical roadmap with direction from the leadership team You are a experienced software developer with experience in modern software development practices, and have experience working with game build pipelines before. Ideally, you are familiar with diverse DevOps practices such as continuous integration, infrastructure as a code and cloud technologies.

Reporting to a Technical Director, this means building thoughtful engineering teams, partnering with the teams and responsibilities that your teams will support our customers (the game teams) to ensure we can provide services that build the game software and find the fun faster.
Requirements

• Experience leading agile engineering teams while still being hands on
• People management experience (either formal or informal)
• Strong coding skills.
• Worked on a game team, ideally as a tools or build engineer
• Familiarity with CI Systems such as Jenkins, Azure DevOps or similar
• Familiarity with container/VM technologies (Docker, vSphere, and Kubernetes)
• Analytical and methodical problem solving skills

Would be a bonus

• Monitoring tools like Grafana, Kibana, DataDog
• Experience with As-Code management tools (e.g. Terraform, Ansible, Packer)
• Familiarity with Document Databases (e.g. Elasticsearch, MongoDB)
• Experience with Package repositories (e.g. Artifactory).

About Electronic Arts

We're proud to have an extensive portfolio of games and experiences, locations around the world, and opportunities across EA. We value adaptability, resilience, creativity, and curiosity. From leadership that brings out your potential, to creating space for learning and experimenting, we empower you to do great work and pursue opportunities for growth.

We take a holistic approach with our benefits program, focusing on physical, emotional, financial, career, and community wellness to support a balanced life with paid time off and new parent leave, plus free games and so much more. We nurture environments where our teams can always bring their best to what they do.

Electronic Arts is an equal opportunity employer. All employment decisions are made without regard to race, color, national origin, ancestry, sex, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, age, genetic information, religion, disability, medical condition, pregnancy, marital status, family status, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. We will also consider employment qualified applicants with criminal records in accordance with applicable law. EA also makes workplace accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities as required by applicable law.