The Information Technology group (EAIT) works as a global team to empower EA’s employees and business operations to be creative, collaborative, and productive. As a digital entertainment company, EA’s enterprise technology needs are diverse and span across game development, workforce collaboration, marketing, publishing, player experience, security, and corporate activities. Our mission is to bring creative technology services to each of these areas, working across the company to “ensure better play.”

You will report to the Senior Manager, Software Engineering based in Bucharest, and you will have a team of supportive colleagues that would be happy to work with you in a flat organization structure where you will be encouraged to be part of a diverse team.

Responsibilities:

• Lead a team to create the solution and software architecture for high-volume, high transaction applications specifically targeted to support the game development teams across the entire global enterprise
• As a people manager, leads a team with a culture of trust and collaboration
• Demonstrate a sound understanding of game development team goals that guide technology requirements and design deliverables.
• Have and develop knowledge of trends, relevant software development technologies, design patterns and methodologies
• Work with other engineers and architects to create guidelines, methodologies, and documentation
• Be a hands-on person leading the team from the front and a coach for software engineers in accomplishing architecture, design and implementation goals
• Provide architectural guidance to quality assurance on all new code from launch through integration, staging and production environments
• Participate in code reviews provide feedback on design and implementation to help others improve coding skills
• Document the requirements and the architecture and design proposed to provide the software solution
• Take part in any negotiations or discussions regarding the necessary requirements, and provide feedback to all parties involved
• Report progress and status through regular email or face-to-face communication with appropriate leads/managers