Senior Director, Architecture - Employee Experience

Requisition Number: 153416

Position Title: Senior Director IT I

External Description:

About EA

EA was founded over 25 years ago by individuals with a deep passion for making games. Many things have changed over the years as the gaming industry—and the company—has expanded immensely, but we are still driven by the same passion for developing, publishing, and distributing the world’s best games. Our history has been one of great success, and our future looks even brighter. Fueled by our talented staff at locations across the Globe we are united in our passion to continue shaping the future of interactive entertainment. Together we can make a difference.

About Employee Experience Team (EEX)

A division of EA IT, EEX is founded to achieve one audacious vision – to create a friction-free workplace that powers EA’s talent to create, connect, and collaborate and creating a compelling employee experience anytime and anywhere.   Enabling working together across physical and digital spaces, improving operational performance via self service and intelligent guidance, forging digital trust that protects brand reputation and assets, are the key business outcomes we deeply care about. Our strategy focuses on making an Employee Experience platform to create these business outcomes.

The challenge ahead

EA is seeking a transformational leader for the Director of Architecture role to power the journey of making Employee Experience platform. This key leadership role will be responsible for the solution and technology architecture for the Employee Experience platform.

The scope of architecture responsibilities include the following platforms/sub systems:

1. Employee Engagement Platform
2. Digital Workplace
3. Unified communication and collaboration systems
4. Talent systems
5. Device management platform
6. Operational tools
7. Integration fabric – Identity, Connections, Trust and Analytics

Critical responsibilities include:

• Taking a long view of the technology architecture to align with the employee experience products
• Developing roadmaps and technology standards to realize the employee experience platform vision
• Strategizing the approach to blend packaged applications and custom solutions to create work experiences tailored to EA and enable our employees to perform the best work of their lives.
• Working with Business partners to understand partner needs and delivering incrementally on their highest priority features and requirements
• Work towards maturing the engineering roles within Employee Experience and evangelizing adoption of the EE platform as part of the future EE engineering capabilities
• Champion the adoption of the cloud, engineering, and standards needed to truly enable efficient, highly scalable, performance, and supportable solutions.
• Collaborate with other groups within EA IT, EADP, and across EA to break down high level requirements into actionable development strategies & roadmaps
• Participate in different proof of concept projects, experimenting with full stack of technologies and solutions
• Identify and create mitigation plans for technical risks
• Evangelize the robust documentation practices to facilitate speedy developer ramp up and operational and sustaining support for all solutions
• Ensure the team has the tools, technical processes and best practices in place
• Coaching engineering: Be a role model, coach and mentor for other members of the team to grow as architects, engineers and developers

This role will require that you work with a global engineering team and partner with other cross functional teams.   You will closely partner with IT’s Operational teams, Program/Product Management, IT’s Applications teams, and with other partner organizations in the broader CTO organization including the EA Digital Platform Cloud Team, the Technical Operations teams, and EA Security.

Required skills and experience

• Architecture leadership of technology platforms at large enterprise scale
• Proven track record of results oriented architecture management in a globally distributed IT team, developing a compelling vision, and driving excellence in engineering
• Very strong interpersonal skills; able to build relationships, credibility and influence in a globally distributed highly collaborative and high-performance environment; ability to interact and effectively communicate at all levels of the organization, including C-Suite level interactions
• Hands-on and diverse application engineering knowledge; ability to translate product vision into key capabilities of Employee Experience Platform
• Deep experience with cloud container technologies, Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery, Cloud Delivery Pipelines and Serverless public cloud services. Strong knowledge of public cloud ecosystems such as AWS and Azure is critical.
• Broad experience with Internet scale technologies – NoSQL databases (Mongo, Cassandra, Redis), Javascript, Nodejs, Python, Angular JS/React
• Strong organizational, analytical, and critical thinking skills that result in conclusive recommendations / decisions
• Excellent change management skills and ability to drive change campaigns
• Demonstrated successful career progression in broad and diverse IT organizations
• Able to thrive in a fast-paced and highly dynamic work environment
• Able to thrive in an environment that requires a high degree of autonomy, integrity and accountability

Qualifications

• BS degree in computer science or software engineering
• Extensive experience with technology architecture and delivery roles

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We are a global team of creators, storytellers, technologists, experience originators, innovators and so much more. We believe amazing games and experiences start with teams as diverse as the players and communities we serve. At Electronic Arts, the only limit is your imagination.

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About Electronic Arts

Everything we do is designed to inspire the world to play. Through our cutting-edge games, innovative services, and powerful technologies, we bring worlds with infinite possibilities to millions of players and fans around the globe.

We’re looking for collaborative and inclusive people with diverse perspectives who will enrich our culture and challenge us. We take a holistic approach with our benefits program, focusing on physical, emotional, financial, career, and community wellness to support our people through every chapter of life. We provide comprehensive benefit packages and support for a balanced life with paid time off and new parent leave, plus free games and so much more. Our goal is to provide a safe and respectful workplace that empowers you to thrive in both work and life.

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.

Days Open: 85

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EEO Employer Verbiage:

About Electronic Arts

Everything we do is designed to inspire the world to play. Through our cutting-edge games, innovative services, and powerful technologies, we bring worlds with infinite possibilities to millions of players and fans around the globe.

We’re looking for collaborative and inclusive people with diverse perspectives who will enrich our culture and challenge us. We take a holistic approach with our benefits program, focusing on physical, emotional, financial, career, and community wellness to support our people through every chapter of life. We provide comprehensive benefit packages and support for a balanced life with paid time off and new parent leave, plus free games and so much more. Our goal is to provide a safe and respectful workplace that empowers you to thrive in both work and life.

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.