Posted 1 month ago
Only considering candidates eligible to work in Montreal, Canada ⚠️
Company Description
Ubisoft is a global leader in the video game industry, with teams around the world creating original and memorable experiences—from Assassin’s Creed and Rainbow Six to Just Dance and much more. We believe that diversity of perspectives helps both players and teams thrive. If you are passionate about innovation and pushing the boundaries of entertainment, join us and help create the unknown!
Position Description
Within the Technology Group (TG), we provide tools, middleware, and services tailored to Ubisoft’s game production needs throughout the entire lifecycle. Through collaboration and innovation, we contribute to streamlining creation and improving production efficiency, with the goal of delivering quality games to millions of players worldwide. Exploring ideas, experimenting with new technologies, and implementing stable solutions are part of our daily routine.
As a technical lead within the Technology Group, you will define and guide the technological vision of our SDKs for game engines to ensure maximum quality, performance, and reusability by Ubisoft’s production teams. You will be responsible for technical and architectural decisions for the technologies under your purview and will act as an expert, actively participating in innovation topics that will shape the future of game development tools, particularly those dedicated to debugging and game performance.
Your role is critical for setting technical and quality standards and promoting convergence across projects. You will work closely with production teams, technical leads and architects from other groups, and technology partners to ensure our solutions meet diverse needs while remaining sustainable and consistent.
What You Will Do
- Technical Leadership: Lead and oversee major technical decisions, ensuring consistency and longevity of the technologies you manage.
- Strategic Technical Direction: Define best practices, standards, and strategic directions for SDKs, frameworks, pipelines, and tools used in production.
- Cross-Functional Impact: Propose solutions for complex and cross-functional challenges such as vendor transitions, service migrations, and privacy law compliance.
- Technology Prototyping: Explore and prototype new technologies, anticipate evolutions, and position TG to leverage them effectively.
- Systems Integration: Ensure technical decisions align with long-term vision by evaluating risks and interdependencies between systems.
- Collaboration and Mentorship: Maintain TG ecosystem coherence by collaborating with other groups and guiding engineering teams to enhance their technical skills.
- Technical Reviews Management: Facilitate technical review processes, including inter-group synchronizations and domain-specific discussions affecting game developers in performance, debugging, observability, and automated testing.
