At BioWare, our mission is to create worlds of adventure, conflict, and companionship that inspire you to become the hero of your story. Our teams drive innovation using cutting-edge tech and tools such as the Frostbite engine and collaborate with thousands of world-class developers across EA’s network of studios. We are passionate about games and their potential as a creative medium to reach and inspire people through emotion, artistry, and engaging storytelling. If you share this passion, this is an amazing opportunity to help shape the next generation of gaming.
What the Build Associate Technical Director will do at BioWare:
You will work with our game teams to maintain and expand our automation solutions for build verification, creation, securing, and distribution, as well as automated testing and pre-submission validation.
You will be an essential champion in improving developer workflow and iteration time across all of our games through automation.
Who You Are:
You enjoy working with all sorts of creative people and coming up with innovative programmatic solutions for their problems. You have a passion for developing automated solutions that help teams produce great results faster. You want to help us build the best games in the industry.
Responsibilities:
- Maintain and expand Build Automation solutions across our games.
- Work with all of our game teams to help them reduce iteration time and produce great results.
- Work with vendors like Microsoft and Sony to get our games on to their latest platforms.
- Mentor other developers in how to make best use of automation during every phase of development.
Requirements:
- Professional experience with automation solutions such as Jenkins or Quickbuild.
- Professional experience with high-level languages such as Groovy or Python
- Experience with databases, primarily MSSQL.
- Experience with C++ and .NET Core is helpful but not required.
What’s in it for you? Glad you asked!
We are proud of the great perks we offer like comprehensive health and benefit packages, tuition reimbursement, pension with company match and, of course, free video games. And since we realize it takes world-class people to make world-class games, we offer competitive compensation packages and a culture that thrives on creativity and individuality. Health, Dental, Financial offered (ESPP and RRSP matching); Bonus and relocation assistance also offered.
EA is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, ancestry, pregnancy, age, sexual orientation, marital status, protected veteran status, medical condition or disability, or any other characteristic protected by law.
About EA
At Electronic Arts, we exist to Inspire the World to Play. We create extraordinary new game experiences for our millions of players everywhere by bringing together talented people that combine creativity, innovation, and passion. We know that our strength lies in the diversity of our people. We immerse our employees into an inclusive culture, and provide opportunities for learning and leading that allow them to do the most impactful and rewarding work of their careers. We put our people first. We provide comprehensive benefit packages with a focus on health and wellbeing to support your needs and help you balance your career and personal life. We provide access to dynamic and collaborative work environments, opportunities to connect and contribute through our Employee Resource Groups, and support for a balanced life with paid time off and new parent leave, plus free video games and so much more! 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. Electronic Arts also makes workplace accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities as required by applicable law.
