Lead Engineer - Engineering Productivity

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