[QVS] Associate Technical Director

Requisition Number: 182842

Position Title: Associate Technical Director

External Description:

Quality Engineering (QE) helps guarantee software excellence for gaming applications through the creation of automated solutions and efficient tooling for reliability and performance.

The Quality Engineering Associate Technical Director reports to the Group Technical Director of Quality Verification (QV) and will partner across multiple teams to provide automation and tooling solutions by gathering requirements and strengthening relationships with development and quality verification partners, conducting return on investment analysis to prioritize needs across multiple partners, and contributing to the impact of the organization by collaborating on best practices for engineering.

You will be a leader in a cohesive technical community by developing excellent relationships with technical peers in game development teams and other groups throughout EA studios.

[Job Responsibilities]

• Partner with QE and Franchise leadership to develop strategic goals and milestones, establish best practices, and ensure technical solutions are cost-effective and meet customer expectations.
• Facilitate your team to provide technical solutions that sets the team up for low liabilities but highest throughput of delivery. This should include considerations of cloud and industry standard functional/non-functional design principles
• Work with leadership team to define the roadmap for the team to achieve opportunities identified by working with partners across EA studios worldwide
• Provide technical oversight and direction to development teams; establish a code quality process
• Contribute to technical architecture and design documents for small/medium/large sized features
• Oversee internal and external project dependencies as well as risks and critical paths, recommend solutions and approve plans and timelines while understanding overall impact on all partners.
• Manage the performance and professional development of team members
• You will understand the goals, motivations, and processes of multiple teams within Electronic Arts, and translate those goals into initiatives that guide the team towards success.
• You will establish software engineering quality practices, and lead educating the team on said practices
• Utilize excellent project management skills to prioritize requests based on resourcing, time and budget

[Qualifications]

• 10+ years hands-on experience as a software engineer
• 3+ years as a software engineering team leadership experience
• Experience working on code quality practices and software testing tools, test automation or development process improvements
• Software Architecture experience designing large-scale, distributed and performant systems
• Experience working on an agile team to deliver technology
• Experience working in a global, distributed and matrix organization
• Fluent or bi-lingual in English and Korea

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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: 59

Can this position be remote?: 0

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.