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

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 including engineering, design, art and production
• Experience taking ownership of ambiguous technical problems and turning ideas into practical, adopted solutions
• Ability to rapidly learn new technologies, tools, and programming languages
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills

Benefits:

• Comprehensive approach to benefits programs, focusing on physical, emotional, financial, professional, and social well-being
• Locally tailored packages may include healthcare, mental health support, retirement savings, paid and family leaves, free games, and more