Technical Director

Requisition Number: 157909

Position Title: Technical Director I

External Description:

The EA Romania office is one of our fastest growing studio with some of our biggest titles being developed and tested. We have thousand and growing passionate engineers, quality analysts, artists, testers, production specialists, project managers, and IT professional working together, forming great communities for you to participate in.

The challenge ahead

Do you want to make making games better? The Technical Director will partner with the Technical Leads at several our studios and with your team to review and refine requirements, then manage your development teams to develop designs, execution, and delivery plans, then track and coordinate the delivery, and successful adoption of our technology by the users.

On the technology side, you will use technologies and experiences from EA’s automation ecosystem, your mission will be to improve machine learning and risk-based testing techniques into our automation practices. You also will write tools which directly support development efforts to produce and ship our games, and advocating for best practices through tools and process.

You'll need to be a developer with a solid technology background to provide clear vision, mission, and the strategies to execute and deliver on quality engineering solutions. You will need to have a personality type that is dynamic, enthusiastic and able to network across multiple groups and individuals in both the development and quality assurance domains to develop excellent relationships and communications channels.

Join a team where you'll improve our games every day and are challenged and supported to grow and evolve as an engineer! Check out these videos to see who we are and what you will do:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8cSKIpJFNzw

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CBIhu_9OolY

Responsibilities

• Champion quality and performance. Define uncompromising target metrics and create processes and culture to exceed them.
• Manage the team to improve team efficiency by identifying bottlenecks and proposing solutions.
• Facilitate collaboration efforts for other team members/teams/groups across multiple labels and teams.
• Identify process improvement programs to gain efficiencies, cost or quality that impact multiple teams.
• Work with development teams and different partners (partner teams, product teams, users, etc) to refine requirements for development.
• Manage the development plan, schedule, and process for multiple simultaneous projects, including tasks, resources, quality, time, priorities, and costs
• Collaborate and manage partnerships with internal technical partners.
• Share knowledge internally. Apply lessons learned by other teams and align with the broader EA's technology portfolio.
• Establish engineering best practices that enable the team to execute on time and quality
• Act as a single contact for discipline at the project level, including collaborating with key external partners, i.e. Studio Tech & Tools, Ops, Platform teams.
• Manage people and career development for leads, and ensuring there is craft leadership for the wider engineering team

Required Qualifications

• 3+ years in software development/engineering management positions.
• 5+ years in hands-on software development roles.
• You have developed and scaled test automation systems.
• You have gathered and refined use cases and turned them into requirements and designs.
• You have built teams and created a development and sharing culture.
• Expertise in leading a team to deliver results while tracking progress and manage risks.
• Experience with Agile/Scrum and knowing how to connect between the iterative-process and high-level programs and milestones.
• Broad knowledge of and experience with web and mobile game development.

What's in for you? Funny that you asked..

1. A team of experts that are willing to share good practices tips & tricks.
2. Cool location in a non-crowded area of Bucharest, very close to the subway (AFI Park).
3. Flexible hours (we get it…it’s not always easy to get up before the rooster)
4. Fresh fruits & a very good coffee
5. Development programs (do you want to grow? We stand by you)
6. Additional free days for Christmas - NYE period (Except the bank holidays - some extra vacation time)

At EA Romania, fresh ideas and new ways of thinking are always welcome. If you are passionate about games and the games industry, we’d like to talk with you! We are One Team, a diverse, creative and collaborative community of artists and creators united by our shared vision of excellence. We celebrate success and individuality on global and local scales, and believe that the employee experience should be just as amazing as the player experience.

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Nous sommes une équipe internationale de spécialistes de la création, de la narration, de la technologie, de la génération d’expériences, de l’innovation et bien plus encore. Nous pensons que nos équipes doivent être aussi diversifiées que nos communautés afin de créer des jeux et des expériences inoubliables. Chez Electronic Arts, la seule limite est votre 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: 166

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À propos d'Electronic Arts

Toutes nos actions sont tendues vers le même objectif : transmettre l'envie de jouer. Au travers de nos jeux innovants, de nos services novateurs et de nos technologies de pointe, nous offrons des possibilités infinies à des millions de fans dans le monde entier.

 

Nous cherchons des personnes inclusives et collaboratives aux points de vue variés pour enrichir notre culture et nous stimuler. Grâce à notre programme d’avantages sociaux, nous adoptons une approche holistique centrée sur le bien-être physique, émotionnel, financier, professionnel et communautaire pour soutenir les membres de notre personnel à chaque chapitre de leur vie. Nous fournissons un ensemble complet d’avantages sociaux garantissant une vie équilibrée et offrant notamment des congés payés, des congés parentaux, des jeux gratuits et bien plus encore. Notre objectif est de fournir un environnement de travail sûr et bienveillant qui vous permet de vous épanouir sur le plan personnel comme sur le plan professionnel.

 

Electronic Arts souscrit au principe de l’égalité des chances. Nous prenons nos décisions en matière d’emploi sans distinction de race, de couleur, de pays d’origine, d’hérédité, de sexe, de genre, d’identité ou d’expression de genre, d’orientation sexuelle, d’âge, d’informations génétiques, de religion, de handicap, d’état de santé, de grossesse, de situation familiale, d’ancienneté ou de tout autre facteur protégé par la loi. Nous étudions également les candidatures des personnes qualifiées possédant un casier judiciaire, conformément à la loi en vigueur. Par ailleurs, EA aménage l’environnement de travail pour les personnes en situation de handicap, conformément à la loi en vigueur.