# Senior Technical Lead - EA SPORTS™ NHL

**Company**: Electronic Arts
**Location**: Vancouver, British Columbia
**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

The Senior Technical Lead – Core Technology oversees foundational engineering domains for the NHL franchise, including gameplay engineering, rendering, presentation, audio, and 3D art teams.

Responsibilities:

### Technical Leadership & Strategy

- Partner with the Franchise Technical Director to define and drive the long-term Core Technology roadmap.

- Lead multi-year architectural and foundational initiatives across various technology domains.

- Make high-impact technical decisions, balancing tradeoffs and mitigating risks.

### Delivery & Execution

- Own end-to-end delivery for your technology stream, ensuring predictable, reliable, and high-quality shipments.

- Coordinate across engineering, design, art, and production to resolve dependencies and maintain momentum.

- Provide technical assessments for scope, risk, and feasibility.

### Cross-Discipline Collaboration

- Build partnerships with central technology teams, external partners, and other EA SPORTS franchises.

- Ensure Core Technology solutions scale across content pipelines, creative workflows, and runtime performance requirements.

### Team Leadership & People Management

- Lead and mentor domain tech leads and senior engineers, fostering technical excellence, ownership, and growth.

- Encourage a culture of openness, collaboration, and continuous improvement.

- Define and champion engineering standards and best practices.

### Technical Excellence & Performance

- Champion performance-conscious design, ensuring Core Technology domains meet CPU and GPU budgets.

- Guide teams in identifying and prioritizing performance risks.

Requirements:

- 8+ years of professional software or game development experience.

- 3+ years of technical leadership or engineering management experience.

- Deep expertise in C++ and modern game engine architecture.

- Proven ability to drive technical strategy and communicate complex ideas.

- Strong partnership skills, with experience working across engineering, design, art, production, and external technology groups.

Benefits:

- Shape the foundational technology for an iconic sports franchise.

- Lead talented teams with real ownership and influence.

- Drive initiatives impacting millions of players yearly.

- Work in a collaborative and innovative studio.

## Skills

### Required
- C++
- game engine architecture
- technical leadership
- software development

### Nice to have
- gameplay
- rendering
- presentation
- audio
- content creation workflows

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