Director, Software Engineering

Job Description

PlayStation isn't just the Best Place to Play - it's also the Best Place to Work. Today, we're recognized as a global leader in entertainment producing The PlayStation family of products and services including PlayStation®5, PlayStation®4, PlayStation®VR, PlayStation®Plus, acclaimed PlayStation software titles from PlayStation Studios, and more.

PlayStation also strives to create an inclusive environment that empowers employees and embraces diversity. We welcome and encourage everyone who has a passion and curiosity for innovation, technology, and play to explore our open positions and join our growing global team.

The PlayStation brand falls under Sony Interactive Entertainment, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Sony Group Corporation.

As a Director, you are a key leader in defining a culture that aligns with and further enables our tremendous growth. You possess strong acumen and technical skills that, in combination, allows you to develop well-balanced processes and solutions that deliver material organisational value. We are looking for a Leader with exceptional leadership skills, and passion that is contagious.

What you'll be doing:
• Acquires and empowers highly talented, passionate, driven leaders to lead and inspire our engineering teams.
• Leads and unleashes teams of Architects, Analysts, Engineers, and Quality Engineers to deliver highly available, scalable, and performant solutions
• Showcases uncompromising ownership of outcomes and deliverables for their team
• Role Model for Customer focused delivery for both internal and external customers
• Energetically, passionately, and effectively works across organisational boundaries, collaborating to deliver awesome platform capabilities.
• Experienced Operational Leader that drives Operational Excellence and Continuous Improvement within their team and across the organisation.
• Builds and fosters agile engineering capabilities and quality engineering practices.
• Demonstrates leadership and expertise by building, operating, and optimising automated self-service capabilities at enterprise scale.
• Performs a key leadership role in the technology transformation of the existing capabilities and innovation of new capabilities to support business growth.
• Leads and delivers results against the Platform Strategy Roadmap for the enterprise. This includes setting vision, gathering requirements, gaining business consensus, performing vendor and product evaluations, mentoring business and development resources, and delivering solutions.
• Participates in product roadmap discussions and identifies key areas for improvement in the product and incorporate these goals into ongoing & future development initiatives
• Assists or directly drives site related responsibilities

What we're looking for:
• BS or Master's Degree in Engineering, Computer Science or equivalent experience. MS in CS or IS preferred with emphasis on data science, architecture and modelling or database design.
• Extensive recent experience with technology transformation, specifically designing, implementing, and operating automated, self-service solutions
• Deep technical experience with transactional data technologies
• 10+ years' experience required in delivering enterprise scale solutions in support of on-line, secure, scalable, resilient software as a service and data as a service delivery required.
• 7+ years of leading, inspiring, and growing talented Software Engineering teams.
• Experience leading teams in researching new and emerging technologies to realise potential value, business fit, operations, and cost efficiencies of implementing such technologies is necessary.
• Extensive experience with agile development methodologies and processes required
• Must possess the drive and passion for technology leadership with the ability to excite, mentor, and motivate team members in various roles in the organisation
• Must possess outstanding verbal and written communication skills, and be able to work with others at all levels; effective at working with geographically remote and culturally diverse teams.

Equal Opportunity Statement:

Sony is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All persons will receive consideration for employment without regard to gender (including gender identity, gender expression and gender reassignment), race (including colour, nationality, ethnic or national origin), religion or belief, marital or civil partnership status, disability, age, sexual orientation, pregnancy, maternity or parental status, trade union membership or membership in any other legally protected category.

We strive to create an inclusive environment, empower employees and embrace diversity. We encourage everyone to respond.

PlayStation is a Fair Chance employer and qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records will be considered for employment.

Jobcode: Reference SBJ-74vb86-3-135-201-190-42 in your application.