Job Description
Development Technology & Solutions
Development Technology & Solutions is a partner of EA Studios. They span four continents, bringing together diverse individuals passionate about their craft from across the globe. They partner in every development phase while improving their expertise to create greater experiences for players. DTS participates in creating some of the most beloved games and supports ongoing live services. Through cutting-edge technology, data-driven insights, and state-of-the-art practices, they drive quality and directly impact players. They are a learning organization, sharing collaboratively and exploring innovative ways to solve challenges in creating amazing games for millions of players worldwide.
The Challenge Ahead:
The Development Manager will be a part of the Studio Data and Insights (SDI) team. Supporting one of our games studios, you will work directly with central Analytics teams to bring increased visibility, credibility, and communication on the team's workload and project development.
What a Development Manager (DM) does at EA:
You will work with our Analytics leads working on multiple studio projects to help prioritize work, running scrum ceremonies, owning Jaas backlog working with our partners including Game Design, Code / Script, Network Engineering, Product Management, Brand Management, Marketing, Finance and supporting data teams. As part of the Game Development Framework, you will get experience balancing analytics workloads that range from reactive requests through longer term R&D projects spread over many sprints.
As part of the Studio Data and Insights team, you will work with peers from all over the world and help bring visibility into workload, velocity and capacity of the scrum team (squad). As part of the broader EA collective, you will get experience handling multiple team dependencies while building credibility between Analytics and Studio leadership.
The next great Development Manager has:
• 3+ years working as a project manager and/or Scrum Master
• 3 years working in a Software Development industry
• Extreme comfortability working in work tracking tools (e.g. JIRA or JASS)
• Experience managing both internal and external teams
• Various negotiation and conflict resolution tools in your toolbelt
• Comfortable talking across and presenting to all levels of an organization
• Effective and consistent sprint reporting to partners
• Keen ability to always know the status of your projects and quickly visualize
• Passionate about managing analytics / data teams
Jobcode: Reference SBJ-d8z92m-44-220-131-93-42 in your application.