Senior Engineering Manager- Java Tech Stack

Job Description

Job Title: Senior Engineering Manager

Location: Hyderabad

Introduction to EA & India Centre: Electronic Arts Inc. is a global interactive entertainment software company. EA develops interactive software worldwide for video game systems, personal computers, wireless devices, and the Internet.

You will report to Director, Software engineering.

We are EA.

The EA Digital Platform (EADP) group is the core powering the global EA ecosystem. We provide the foundation for all of EA's incredible games and player experiences with high-level platforms like Cloud, Commerce, Data and AI, Gameplay Services, Identity, Social, Economies and more. By providing reusable capabilities that game teams can easily integrate, we let them focus on making some of the best games in the world and creating meaningful relationships with our players. We're behind the curtain, making it all work together as a central technology provider. Come power the future of play with us.

Your Work with Us

You will explore multiple technologies and collaborate with different teams within EADP and game teams worldwide. The aim is to inspire creativity and performance for EA's upcoming games, ensuring that our engineering solutions are both efficient.

Your role will involve a mix of leadership and hands-on technical work. You'll guide a team towards maintaining in their work, from performance and maintainability to quality and automation. You'll also help collaborate with multiple team members to understand their needs, designing software solutions that are well-documented, maintainable, and meet EA's quality standards.

Regard technical leadership, you will call for someone who can mentor and support the team's professional development. You'll advocate for best practices in software development, engaging in the technical direction, and contributing to the design and implementation of features.

Your Experience

To be successful in this role, you have at least 10 years of relevant industry experience, including 2 years in a leadership role. A passion for managing teams, an ability to motivate and help team members, and a technical foundation, are essential. You have demonstrated deep experience with cloud platforms, container technologies, and continuous integration and deployment practices, having deployed large-scale web applications designed to support high traffic volumes and mission-critical services, ensuring robustness, scalability, and reliability.

This position is for those who want to improve products that entertain millions worldwide. If you're ready to take on this challenge and contribute to the success of EA's games, we'd like to hear from you.

Responsibilities:
• You will lead a team of highly engaged engineers, fostering a culture of performance, maintainability, quality, and automation.
• Collaborate with different team members, to align solutions and achieve outcomes for all parties involved.
• You will provide technical leadership, mentoring, and career guidance, ensuring the professional growth of team members.
• Work with external teams, customers, product managers, and programme managers to understand requirements and scope, aiming for delivery of high-quality software products.
• Champion software development best practices, including clean code and architecture principles, and implement them within the team.
• Participate in and oversee project scoping, design, and execution, ensuring solutions are well-documented, testable, and maintainable.
• Advocate for and contribute to the development of scalable, performant services and APIs, applying your expertise in cloud technologies.
• Promote technical direction, design, and implementation for features, applying your knowledge to provide solutions.
• Engage in architecture, design, and code reviews, promoting and continuous improvement.

Qualifications:
• Bachelor's or master's degree in computer science or equivalent industry experience.
• 10+ years of relevant work experience, with at least 2+ years in a leadership role managing a technical team.
• Knowledge in team management theory, techniques, and career development practices.
• Proficiency in object-oriented programming and experience with functional programming.
• Experience building scalable products and services on cloud platforms, AWS, and in container technologies like Docker and Kubernetes.
• Familiarity with Continuous Integration, Delivery, and Deployment best practices, and proficient in using tools like GitLab, GitHub, Bitbucket, and Git.
• Experience communicating updates and resolutions to customers and other partners, with the ability to deliver technical presentations and produce high-quality technical documentation.
Outstanding communication skills, both written and verbal, with the ability to deliver technical presentations and produce high-quality technical documentation.

Jobcode: Reference SBJ-gp3p6e-18-223-134-29-42 in your application.