Technical Lead

Job Description

ONLINE INFRASTRUCTURE

What We Do

We enable Epic's online services teams to build, deploy, and manage services that are used by more than half a billion players around the world. Our mission is to provide world class tools and platforms to improve the experience of our developers and make it easier, faster, and safer to build, operate, and scale their applications. We operate at massive scale as one of the largest cloud computing users in the world.

What You'll Do

Your primary responsibility will be technical leadership of our Governance and Platform Infrastructure (GPI) organization with a focus on building technical alignment and partnerships with external and internal engineering and product teams and technical leaders. You will leverage your strong technical leadership skills as you play a key role in improving, scaling and operating cloud infrastructure services.

In this role, you will
• Be accountable for building and maintaining technical alignment and partnerships with teams and technical leaders within GPI
• Drive the outcomes, delivery and execution of strategic initiatives within GPI. This includes jumping in and being an individual contributor to the project as needed to support teams and outcomes
• Build, grow, and mentor an engineering team that balances technical expertise with customer focus and a growth mindset to deliver consistently
• Partner closely with product management, software engineering, and cloud engineering teams to ensure that your roadmap is appropriately prioritized to drive meaningful outcomes
• Maintain a high bar for the quality and operational health of the tools that our teams build and define the metrics used to measure the effectiveness of our systems
• You will use your technical expertise to mentor engineers and provide leadership on resolving complex technical challenges

What we're looking for
• A proven track record of driving technical leadership of high performing engineering teams or cultures
• Strong interpersonal skills and the ability to work across teams to understand technical and non-technical needs from diverse stakeholders
• Knowledge of modern developer platforms and industry standards for developer tooling and practices
• Deep understanding of cloud technologies, especially Amazon Web Services
• An ability to drive a long term vision for improving cloud infrastructure and services through continual iterative improvements
• A desire and willingness to jump into the weeds and do engineering work as needed to deliver strategic outcomes for the organization

Note to Recruitment Agencies: Epic does not accept any unsolicited resumes or approaches from any unauthorized third party (including recruitment or placement agencies) (i.e., a third party with whom we do not have a negotiated and validly executed agreement). We will not pay any fees to any unauthorized third party. Further details on these matters can be found here.

Jobcode: Reference SBJ-d5yyze-3-22-100-180-42 in your application.