# Lead Engineer - Engineering Productivity

**Company**: Electronic Arts
**Location**: Manchester, Cheshire
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: regular employee
**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.

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 help 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 that improve reliability, quality, and release velocity

- Build and maintain highly visible dashboards and operational tooling that communicate the health of the product and the production pipeline

- Develop profiling, diagnostics, and optimisation tooling that helps teams understand performance, memory, and technical budgets across the game

- Work closely with client, engine, server, DevOps, QA, design, art, and production teams to deliver improvements that benefit the entire studio

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

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

- Communicate clearly and effectively with team members and stakeholders

- Prioritise engineering initiatives by evaluating technical work against measurable ROIs

Must Haves:

- Significant professional software engineering experience

- Experience building engineering, production, or operational tooling

- Strong software engineering fundamentals

- 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

Bonus Points:

- 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 for artists or designers

- Experience with build systems and release automation

- Experience developing profiling, diagnostics, or performance analysis tools

- Experience mentoring engineers or leading technical initiatives

## Skills

### Required
- software engineering
- tooling
- automation
- workflow optimization
- AI
- CI/CD pipelines
- engineering productivity

### Nice to have
- C++
- scripting languages
- web technologies
- game engines
- content creation pipelines
- build systems
- release automation
- profiling
- diagnostics
- performance analysis

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