Technical Director - American Football

Job Description

EA SPORTS is one of the leading sports entertainment brands in the world, with top-selling videogame franchises, award-winning interactive technology, fan programs, and cross-platform digital experiences. EA SPORTS creates connected experiences that ignite the emotion of sport through industry-leading sports video games, including Madden NFL football, EA Sports FC soccer, NHL® hockey, and EA SPORTS UFC.

We're looking for you to help shape the technical foundation for an exciting American Football project, as well as to provide leadership and oversight to a talented and growing team of game developers.
*This position will require a hybrid onsite presence*

Reporting to the Franchise Technical Director, you will:
• Work with studio leadership to define and execute strategic goals and milestones, establish best practices, and promote the core development values of the engineering team.
• Work with production staff, directors, and other leads to establish engineering tasks and manage schedule requirements.
• Provide technical mentorship and guidance for engineers.
• Guide and grow engineering team-leads into successful people managers.
• Review completed engineering tasks in collaboration with the Studio Director, the production staff, and other leads.
• Collaborate to ensure that technology interests and policies are represented and maintained through the course of development, and that future technology is being developed on schedule.
• Perform research to acquire new knowledge necessary to perform assigned tasks and maintain the technological evolution of the project.
• Maintain familiarity with Tiburon and EA's current game designs and with new technologies across the game industry in multiple genres.

You have:
• 15+ years of gameplay software engineering experience.
• Shipped multiplayer AAA titles on multiple generations of hardware platforms.
• Experience working on large-scale live services titles.
• 10+ years of leadership & people management experience.
• Experience with large code base, gameplay mechanics, networking, and optimization.
• Advanced C/C++ skills.
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or equivalent professional experience.

Bonus
• Experience developing an MMO.

Jobcode: Reference SBJ-gkmynq-3-137-190-44-42 in your application.