Senior Software Engineer .NET

Electronic Arts creates next-level entertainment experiences that inspire players and fans around the world. Here, everyone is part of the story. Part of a community that connects across the globe. A place where creativity thrives, new perspectives are invited, and ideas matter. A team where everyone makes play happen.

We are EA IT Electronic Arts Information Technology (EAIT) group keeps our employees and business operations connected globally. We bring creative technology services to all areas, keeping everyone creative, collaborative and productive. Our team ensures better play across all of EA. 

The role is Hybrid in Vancouver (3 days in office). 

The Challenge Ahead 

This exciting role offers the opportunity to architect and enhance software applications used to create games, at an Enterprise level. You will have the chance to work with game teams across the entire organisation, including FIFA, Madden, Battlefield and Battlefront, and central teams such as Frostbite and Origin. You have a strong focus on innovation and leverage a deep technical experience. You will contribute to the roadmap, architecture and technical and business delivery of several software applications. We require strong soft skills to collaborate with individual game teams, to gain adoption and enhance these solutions. 

Main Responsibilities 

Enterprise-level solution experience: 

• Contributes across an entire project lifecycle, which includes gathering requirements from key technical leaders, creating a vision and strategy, presenting to leadership, developing the product roadmap, ensuring projects are on track and completed on time, managing communication with all stakeholders, and collaborating with the development team  

• Participate in all aspects of the proposed service end-to-end, including design, implementation, support, vendor relations and customer interaction

• Manage the relationship with vendors if applicable, including sourcing, evaluation, and escalation 

Coding, language, architectural design, testing and support: 

• Develop solutions as part of the game development application services portfolio that are modular, portable, testable and reliable 

• Drive usage of coding best practices;Participates in code reviews and provides constructive feedback on design and implementation to help others improve coding skills 

• Oversee support and administrative actions related to the installation and maintenance of production systems, while also engineering solutions that require minimal support  

• Leverage the cloud where appropriate,using automation, cloud computing and configuration as code 

Qualifications and Requirements  

• 8 + years of experience developing Enterprise level solutions

• 8+ years of source control management experience including advanced concepts like branching strategies and developer workflows 

• 8+ years of experience with automated build pipelines, continuous integration, and continuous deployment 

• 8+ years of experience working with standard Microsoft.NET web development tools including C#, ASP.NET MVC, HTML 5+, CSS3+, JavaScript, WCF, REST API, jQuery 

• 8+ years of experience in database development 

• 3+ years of experience with virtualization and cloud platforms (e.g. VMware, Azure, or AWS); Preferred AWS or Azure certifications 

  Additional requirements 

• Experience with different project management models (specifically Agile)

• Excellent verbal and written communication, and customer service skills 

• Experience developing automation solutions using tools like Chef, Puppet, Ansible, or Terrafort 

• Experience in container technologies like Docker and Kubernetes

• Experience with Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning

Pay Transparency - North America

* British Columbia (depending on location e.g. Vancouver vs. Victoria) *$141,400 - $204,400 CAD