# Lead Engineer - Engineering Productivity

**Company**: Electronic Arts
**Location**: Manchester, Cheshire
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology
**Ticker**: EA
**Wikidata**: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q173941

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## Description

Electronic Arts is seeking a seasoned Lead Engineer to drive their technical evolution forward. The successful candidate will collaborate with the Technical Director to execute a studio-wide engineering productivity strategy by delivering advanced tooling, automation, and optimised workflows.

The Lead Engineer will empower engineers, artists, and designers to accelerate delivery, enhance product quality, and future-proof studio operations. This is a broad, hands-on technical role spanning engineering tools, AI-enabled workflows, content creation pipelines, build and release systems, engine development, observability, and studio-wide developer productivity.

Responsibilities:

- Partner with the Technical Director to execute the studio's engineering productivity and workflow transformation strategy.

- Improve creative feedback loops and authoring workflows to reduce the time from idea to player value.

- Leverage AI and automation to streamline engineering, content creation, and operational workflows.

- Develop and evolve build systems, CI/CD pipelines, and engineering workflows.

- Build and maintain highly visible dashboards and operational tooling.

- Develop profiling, diagnostics, and optimisation tooling.

- Work closely with cross-functional teams to deliver improvements.

- Build strong technical partnerships with EA central technology teams and partner studios.

- Promote engineering excellence through maintainable architecture, automation, and knowledge sharing.

- Communicate clearly and effectively with team members and stakeholders.

- Prioritise engineering initiatives based on measurable ROIs.

Requirements:

- Significant professional software engineering experience, ideally within games or another technically demanding industry.

- Experience building engineering, production, or operational tooling.

- Strong software engineering fundamentals with the ability to work across a broad range of technologies.

- Experience collaborating across disciplines.

- Experience taking ownership of ambiguous technical problems.

- Ability to rapidly learn new technologies, tools, and programming languages.

- Excellent communication and collaboration skills.

Nice to Have:

- Experience working with C++, scripting languages, and web technologies.

- Experience working on live service games.

- Experience developing tools for game engines or proprietary technology.

- Experience building content creation pipelines.

- Experience with build systems and release automation.

- Experience developing profiling, diagnostics, or performance analysis tools.

- Experience mentoring engineers or leading technical initiatives.

- Practical experience integrating agentic workflows into software engineering or content creation workflows.

Benefits: Electronic Arts offers a holistic approach to benefits, focusing on physical, emotional, financial, professional, and community well-being. Programmes are designed to meet local needs and may include medical coverage, mental well-being support, retirement savings, paid leave, parental leave, free games, and more.

## Skills

### Required
- software engineering
- engineering tooling
- automation
- content creation pipelines
- build systems
- CI/CD pipelines
- engineering workflows
- profiling
- diagnostics
- optimisation tooling
- collaboration
- communication

### Nice to have
- C++
- scripting languages
- web technologies
- live service games
- game engines
- proprietary technology
- release automation
- performance analysis tools
- mentoring engineers
- technical initiatives
- agentic workflows

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