UGX -Technical Director I
Emplacement: Austin, TX, USA
Requisition Number: 183492
Position Title: Technical Director I
External Description:
We’re EA—the world’s largest video game publisher. You’re probably familiar with many of our titles—Madden, FC, Apex Legends, The Sims, Need for Speed, Dead Space, Battlefield and Star Wars, to name a few. But maybe you don’t know how we’re committed to creating games for every platform—from social to mobile to console —to give our players that anytime, anywhere access they demand. What does that mean for you? It means more opportunities to unleash your computing genius.
EA’s Digital Platform (EADP) organization is responsible for driving critical technology decisions and investments for EA on a global scale, across all divisions and studio teams. Technology and engineering leadership at EA is critical to making the industry’s best games & services and the EADP team is leading the way to providing cross-platform services that will keep our consumers connected with our games anytime, anywhere with anyone.
EA has an opportunity for a Technical Director position. As a Technical Director, you will be a senior technical member of the central engineering team to design, develop, deploy, and maintain high throughput world class services at global scale for our next generation games. EA’s network of games caters to tens of millions of monthly active users. You'll have the opportunity to build sophisticated platform capabilities handling several hundred-thousand requests per second and driving the player engagement of many of the industry’s most popular titles. If you like solving complex computing problems, are a passionate team player and thrive in a fast paced, ever changing development environment this is a great opportunity for you.
What Would You Do
- Architect, design & build massively scalable services, solutions, platforms & UI components with stellar performance.
- Provide technology roadmap & direction for platforms, products, and features.
- Innovate for simplicity and low maintenance
- Collaborate with distributed cross functional teams and deliver amazing experiences to the players
- Drive technical excellence amongst team members by coaching and mentoring
- Lead and deliver on company wide technology initiatives in partnership with other architects
- Provide accurate estimates on deliverables for yourself and help team on the same
- Identify and mitigate technology risks during early stages of development
- Provide architectural guidance and inputs for Quality Assurance, Load/Performance Testing, Capacity Planning, etc.
- Review design & code for adherence to architecture, security compliance and coding standards
- Institutionalize & evangelize engineering best practices across teams.
- Identify the right choice of tools & technologies for solving the problem to minimize time, money and maximize efficiency.
- The last level in the escalation chain for resolving technical issues
Must have Skills
- Bachelor of Technology or Engineering from a reputed institute
- 12+ years of experience working in Java, J2EE technologies and 8+ years of experience in building highly scalable distributed systems using Microservices architecture.
- Strong command over Spring, Spring Boot, gRPC, Load Balancing, Caching, Message Buses (Kafka etc.), AWS Cloud, Kubernetes, Docker, and other commonly used tools & techniques for building high performance distributed systems on the cloud.
- Demonstrated experience in designing and deploying high volume, high transaction based, distributed and highly available web applications.
- Hands-on experience in building rich UI applications using JavaScript/TypeScript frameworks and libraries (such as React, Angular etc.), HTML and CSS.
- Hands on experience in leveraging UI tools & testing frameworks
- Demonstrated ability to architect distributed applications and services on Cloud Platforms using OSS & CNCF standards.
- Strong Understanding of microservices & event driven patterns
- Excellent understanding of object-oriented design patterns and design principles
- Experience in SQL and NoSQL databases such as RDS, Elasticsearch and Cassandra
- Experience in Kafka, Amazon SNS, Elasticsearch, Redis, etc.
- Experience & understanding of DevOps including building CI/CD pipelines using Docker, Jenkins/ Gitlab CI & Kubernetes
- Excellent Troubleshooting & root cause analysis skills
- Superb ability to take high level direction, work through ambiguity and drive to execution in an iterative model.
- Superb ability to translate business requirements into technical design & architecture.
- Ability to communicate ideas clearly and effectively.
- Technology enthusiast, always on the lookout for the latest and greatest tools and technologies for solving problems.
Highly Desired Skills
- Experience with EKS, Terraform, Helm
- Experience in Amazon Aurora, DynamoDB, Redshift, etc.
- Experience in building & deploying web applications using service mesh (Istio) leveraging mesh features.
- Experience in Streaming processing technologies – Kafka Streams, Flink etc.
What’s in it for you? Glad you asked!
We love to brag about our great perks like Global fitness program, game credits, Zeta (Food Coupons), Parental Insurance & Medical, Accident & life insurance and since we realize it takes world-class people to make world-class games, we offer competitive compensation packages and a culture that thrives off creativity and individuality. At EA, we live the “work hard/play hard” credo every day.
Don’t Just Play It – Create It!
US COMPENSATION AND BENEFITS The base salary ranges listed below are for the defined geographic market pay zones in these states. If you reside outside of these locations, a recruiter will advise on the base salary range and benefits for your specific location. EA has listed the base salary ranges it in good faith expects to pay applicants for this role in the locations listed, as of the time of this posting. Salary offered will be determined based on numerous relevant business and candidate factors including, for example, education, qualifications, certifications, experience, skills, geographic location, and business or organizational needs. BASE SALARY RANGES • California (depending on location e.g. Los Angeles vs. Sacramento): º $161,100 - $239,700 USD Annually • New York (depending on location e.g. Manhattan vs. Buffalo): º $142,900 - $239,700 USD Annually • Jersey City, NJ : º $187,400 - $239,700 USD Annually • Colorado (depending on location e.g. Denver vs. Colorado Springs): º $153,100 - $206,200 USD Annually • Washington (depending on location e.g. Seattle vs. Spokane): º $142,900 - $230,000 USD Annually Base salary is just one part of the overall compensation at EA. We also offer a package of benefits including paid time off (3 weeks per year to start), 80 hours per year of sick time, 16 paid company holidays per year, medical/dental/vision insurance, life insurance, disability insurance, and 401(k) to temporary full-time employees scheduled to work full time. |
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Company Profile:
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.
EEOText: EA est un employeur qui offre l'égalité d'accès à l'emploi. Toutes les décisions d'emploi sont prises sans prendre en considération les critères de race, couleur de la peau, origine ethnique, descendance, sexe, genre, identité ou expressions de genre, orientation sexuelle, âge, de nature génétique, religion, invalidité, état de santé, grossesse, situation matrimoniale, situation familiale, état d'ancien combattant, ou encore toute autre caractéristique protégée par la loi. Nous tiendrons aussi compte des candidats qualifiés à l'emploi possédant un casier judiciaire, en vertu de la loi en vigueur. EA veille aussi à procéder à des aménagements spéciaux en milieu de travail pour les candidats qualifiés et présentant une invalidité, tel que requis par la loi en vigueur.
Days Open: 157
Can this position be remote?: 1
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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.