At our core, Electronic Arts is a game maker that connects hundreds of millions of players from around the globe to some of the world’s greatest games. The EAX team is driving the strategy and implementation of important initiatives for EA’s community of players to connect them to one another and to the games they love to play. These initiatives span the digital touchpoints where players interact with the EA Network, including: EA’s gaming service on PC via Origin and the new EA Desktop application; the EA Play subscription program on PC, PlayStation, Xbox, and Steam; EA.com’s corporate, marketing and player engagement activations, and a host of other consumer experiences and strategies to connect players across platforms and within our games.
Joining EAX means joining the team shaping EA’s online presence; evolving subscription services now spanning three major platforms; building consumer experiences that power EA’s games and enabling more personalized, socially connected, and frictionless experiences; and expanding our platforms across web, PC, mobile, the cloud and beyond so our players can get into the games they want to play and stay connected while playing. We like to say that “we see farther,” and are committed to driving innovation to meet player needs today and in the future.
In your role as Lead Architect, you will be responsible for providing technical leadership for your team, driving innovation in development processes, product architecture, and driving engineering initiatives which support our delivery capabilities and the various aspects of quality and reliability. You work in a positive way to mentor and bring the best talent out of engineers on your team, empowering them to deliver the best possible product and run it as a live service.
You bring the following skills or experiences to our team:
- 8+ years’ industry experience architecting large complex designs that span multiple platforms and technologies in C++
- Experienced in building large deployments of consumer facing networked applications built on PC, Mac, Xbox 1 and PS4
- A computer science degree or equivalent experience in the field
- Drive technical initiatives and be accountable to the technical quality of the product
- Ability to translate business requirements into scalable and maintainable systems
- Leadership skills, able to motivate a team and drive best practices
- Strong mentorship and the experience to grow engineers
- Excellent planning and communication skills
- Strong critical thinking and problem solving abilities
Some other areas you may know about:
- Web technologies, like Angular/React
- AWS or other cloud hosting solutions
- CDN driven content delivery
- Publishing games to other platforms such as Steam or Epic
- Managing security escalations and concerns.
You’ll build relationships and work with…
- Other members of the EAX organization such as product management and design, to define product requirements and create technical designs to meet those
- Internal partner teams for SDK integrations, upstream services and content providers
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 maternity and paternity 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.
