Lead Architect, Desktop Client

Job Description

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.

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

Jobcode: Reference SBJ-rv4pom-18-227-228-95-42 in your application.