# Senior Technical Artist - EA SPORTS Technology

**Company**: Electronic Arts
**Location**: Vancouver, British Columbia
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $122,300 - $170,700 CAD
**Category**: IT
**Industry**: Technology
**Ticker**: EA
**Wikidata**: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q173941

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## Description

Electronic Arts creates next-level entertainment experiences that inspire players and fans around the world.

EA SPORTS is one of the most iconic brands in entertainment, connecting hundreds of millions around the world to the sports they love through a portfolio of industry-leading video games.

The Senior Technical Artist (Sr. TA) develops pipelines, workflows, and technology innovations used by content creators across all of EA SPORTS. As part of a central team of Technical Artists, they partner with development teams to build shared and scalable solutions. The main areas of responsibilities include development of content production tools, pipelines, asset optimization/integration, and workflows.

**Responsibilities**

- Develop pipelines, workflows, and technology innovations used by content creators across all of EA SPORTS

- Partner with development teams to build shared and scalable solutions

- Assume ownership over technical issues that arise on projects and bring them to resolution

**Qualifications**

- At least 6+ years of cinematic/games production experience

- A bachelor's degree (or equivalent experience) in a related field

- Effective at communicating with different audiences: artists, engineers, managers

- Proficient scripting/programming in Python or C#

- Experience with 2D/3D art packages such as Maya, Photoshop, Houdini

- A solutions-provider, especially as it pertains to testing and debugging technical issues

- Experience with asset optimization challenges/techniques

- A willingness to jump into the unknown and solve new problems to resolve technical challenges and limitations

**Compensation and Benefits**

- The ranges listed below are what EA in good faith expects to pay applicants for this role in these locations at the time of this posting

- Pay offered will be determined based on a number of relevant business and candidate factors

- For Canada, we offer a package of benefits including vacation (3 weeks per year to start), 10 days per year of sick time, paid top-up to EI/QPIP benefits up to 100% of base salary when you welcome a new child, extended health/dental/vision coverage, life insurance, disability insurance, retirement plan to regular full-time employees

- **Pay Ranges**: British Columbia (depending on location e.g. Vancouver vs. Victoria) $122,300 - $170,700 CAD

## Skills

### Required
- Python
- C#
- Maya
- Photoshop
- Houdini
- asset optimization
- technical issue resolution

### Nice to have
- C++

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