Responsibilities:

• Develop technical constraints and specifications to ensure target performance on each platform is achieved and work with each department continually to ensure those targets are reached.
• Support project teams day to day, helping to identify technical risks and issues and provide solutions
• Identify internal and external dependencies and manage necessary outside support
• Maintain communications with all team members, team leads and executive management, internally and externally
• Keep up to date with industry related technical developments and feed that knowledge back to the leadership team and throughout the company.
• Suggest and lead process improvement initiatives
• Oversee the technical design documentation process
• Oversee the hiring of programmers including participating in resume reviews, technical screens, and active recruiting.
• Oversee the creation of a streamlined and effective build creation process

Qualifications:

• Bachelor of Science in Computer Science, Information Systems, Electronics, or other software engineering related qualification
• 15+ years of applicable games industry experience
• Mastery of C++ in a game development environment and experience with several other languages
• Extensive knowledge in a broad range of software engineering areas with a mastery in at least one area (AI, graphics, networking, physics, etc).
• Must have management and project planning experience at least at the Lead Programmer level or above for at least 1 shipped title