Director, Software Engineering

3 Months ago • 10-17 Years • Software Development & Engineering

Job Summary

Job Description

As Director of Software Engineering at PlayStation, you'll lead and empower engineering teams (Architects, Analysts, Engineers, and Quality Engineers) to deliver high-performing, scalable solutions. Responsibilities include showcasing ownership of deliverables, fostering agile engineering and quality practices, building automated self-service capabilities, and leading technology transformation. You'll participate in product roadmap discussions, drive operational excellence, and collaborate across organizational boundaries. This role requires extensive experience in enterprise-scale solution delivery, agile methodologies, and leading high-performing teams. You will also play a key role in the technology transformation of existing capabilities and innovation of new capabilities.
Must have:
  • Lead and inspire engineering teams
  • Deliver high-availability, scalable solutions
  • Agile development experience
  • 10+ years enterprise solution delivery
  • Experience with transactional data technologies
  • Technology transformation experience
Good to have:
  • MS in CS or IS
  • Experience with data science, architecture and modelling

Job Details

Why PlayStation?

PlayStation isn’t just the Best Place to Play — it’s also the Best Place to Work. Today, we’re recognized as a global leader in entertainment producing The PlayStation family of products and services including PlayStation®5, PlayStation®4, PlayStation®VR, PlayStation®Plus, acclaimed PlayStation software titles from PlayStation Studios, and more.

PlayStation also strives to create an inclusive environment that empowers employees and embraces diversity. We welcome and encourage everyone who has a passion and curiosity for innovation, technology, and play to explore our open positions and join our growing global team.

The PlayStation brand falls under Sony Interactive Entertainment, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Sony Group Corporation.

As a Director, you are a key leader in defining a culture that aligns with and further enables our tremendous growth. You possess strong acumen and technical skills that, in combination, allows you to develop well-balanced processes and solutions that deliver material organisational value. We are looking for a Leader with exceptional leadership skills, and passion that is contagious.

What you'll be doing:

  • Acquires and empowers highly talented, passionate, driven leaders to lead and inspire our engineering teams.
  • Leads and unleashes teams of Architects, Analysts, Engineers, and Quality Engineers to deliver highly available, scalable, and performant solutions
  • Showcases uncompromising ownership of outcomes and deliverables for their team
  • Role Model for Customer focused delivery for both internal and external customers
  • Energetically, passionately, and effectively works across organisational boundaries, collaborating to deliver awesome platform capabilities.
  • Experienced Operational Leader that drives Operational Excellence and Continuous Improvement within their team and across the organisation.
  • Builds and fosters agile engineering capabilities and quality engineering practices.
  • Demonstrates leadership and expertise by building, operating, and optimising automated self-service capabilities at enterprise scale.
  • Performs a key leadership role in the technology transformation of the existing capabilities and innovation of new capabilities to support business growth.
  • Leads and delivers results against the Platform Strategy Roadmap for the enterprise. This includes setting vision, gathering requirements, gaining business consensus, performing vendor and product evaluations, mentoring business and development resources, and delivering solutions.
  • Participates in product roadmap discussions and identifies key areas for improvement in the product and incorporate these goals into ongoing & future development initiatives
  • Assists or directly drives site related responsibilities

What we're looking for:

  • BS or Master’s Degree in Engineering, Computer Science or equivalent experience. MS in CS or IS preferred with emphasis on data science, architecture and modelling or database design.
  • Extensive recent experience with technology transformation, specifically designing, implementing, and operating automated, self-service solutions
  • Deep technical experience with transactional data technologies
  • 10+ years’ experience required in delivering enterprise scale solutions in support of on-line, secure, scalable, resilient software as a service and data as a service delivery required.
  • 7+ years of leading, inspiring, and growing talented Software Engineering teams.
  • Experience leading teams in researching new and emerging technologies to realise potential value, business fit, operations, and cost efficiencies of implementing such technologies is necessary.
  • Extensive experience with agile development methodologies and processes required
  • Must possess the drive and passion for technology leadership with the ability to excite, mentor, and motivate team members in various roles in the organisation
  • Must possess outstanding verbal and written communication skills, and be able to work with others at all levels; effective at working with geographically remote and culturally diverse teams.

Equal Opportunity Statement:

Sony is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All persons will receive consideration for employment without regard to gender (including gender identity, gender expression and gender reassignment), race (including colour, nationality, ethnic or national origin), religion or belief, marital or civil partnership status, disability, age, sexual orientation, pregnancy, maternity or parental status, trade union membership or membership in any other legally protected category.

We strive to create an inclusive environment, empower employees and embrace diversity. We encourage everyone to respond.

PlayStation is a Fair Chance employer and qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records will be considered for employment.

Similar Jobs

Apple - Senior Business Development Manager

Apple

Cupertino, California, United States (On-Site)
2 Months ago
London stock Exchange - Lead Engineer - Solution Architect - Analytics

London stock Exchange

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India (On-Site)
1 Month ago
Toast - Finance Manager, Research & Development

Toast

Boston, Massachusetts, United States (Hybrid)
1 Month ago
Alpha Sense - Cloud Support Engineer

Alpha Sense

Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada (On-Site)
1 Week ago
NinjaVan - Field Sales Executive

NinjaVan

Bandar Lampung, Lampung, Indonesia (Hybrid)
3 Months ago
Apple - Sr Regulatory Compliance Engineer - Wireless

Apple

Cupertino, California, United States (On-Site)
1 Month ago
Zscaler - Staff Software Development Engineer - Browser Team

Zscaler

Madrid, Community Of Madrid, Spain (Remote)
2 Months ago
Western Digital - Senior Engineer, Manufacturing Engineering

Western Digital

Phra Nakhon Si Ayutthaya, Thailand (On-Site)
1 Month ago
Capgemini - Industrial Operations Engineer

Capgemini

Gurugram, Haryana, India (On-Site)
1 Month ago
WebTech Corporation - RAMS Engineer

WebTech Corporation

Turin, Piedmont, Italy (On-Site)
2 Weeks ago

Get notifed when new similar jobs are uploaded

Similar Skill Jobs

Toast - Hardware Quality Engineer

Toast

Boston, Massachusetts, United States (Hybrid)
1 Week ago
Evoplay games - Product Data Analyst

Evoplay games

(Remote)
4 Weeks ago
Oliver Plus - GenAI Art Director

Oliver Plus

South Africa (Remote)
3 Weeks ago
USE Insider - Chatbot Integration & Onboarding Specialist - Arabic Speaker

USE Insider

Istanbul, İstanbul, Türkiye (Hybrid)
1 Week ago
Match Group - Regional Product Marketing Manager

Match Group

Gurugram, Haryana, India (Hybrid)
2 Months ago
HCL Tech - Senior Technical Specialist - Siemens PLM

HCL Tech

New York, United States (On-Site)
2 Months ago
Rippling - Risk Strategy Manager

Rippling

Austin, Texas, United States (On-Site)
1 Month ago
The Orchard - Country Head, Indonesia

The Orchard

Jakarta, Indonesia (On-Site)
2 Months ago
Lionbridge Games - Software Linguistic Tester

Lionbridge Games

Masovian Voivodeship, Poland (On-Site)
4 Months ago
PwC - Strategy and Operations Consultant, Associate

PwC

Bangkok, Bangkok, Thailand (On-Site)
10 Months ago

Get notifed when new similar jobs are uploaded

Jobs in Dublin, County Dublin, Ireland

Toast - Project Manager, People Team

Toast

Dublin, County Dublin, Ireland (Hybrid)
3 Weeks ago
playrix  - Lead Game UI Developer

playrix

Ireland (Remote)
8 Months ago
Interactive Brokers - Global Operational Resilience Specialist

Interactive Brokers

Dublin, County Dublin, Ireland (Hybrid)
2 Months ago
Telnyx - People Operations Specialist

Telnyx

Dublin, County Dublin, Ireland (On-Site)
2 Weeks ago
cyara - Associate Customer Success Manager

cyara

Skibbereen, County Cork, Ireland (Hybrid)
9 Months ago
version 1 - Power App Platform Functional Lead - SME

version 1

Dublin, County Dublin, Ireland (On-Site)
1 Month ago
playrix  - Customer Support Representative (German)

playrix

Ireland (Remote)
9 Months ago
Diligent Corporation - Customer Success Manager II

Diligent Corporation

Galway, County Galway, Ireland (Hybrid)
3 Weeks ago
playrix  - Strategic Sourcing Manager

playrix

Ireland (Remote)
6 Months ago
eBay - Detection & Enforcement Rules Analyst

eBay

Dublin, County Dublin, Ireland (Hybrid)
1 Year ago

Get notifed when new similar jobs are uploaded

Software Development & Engineering Jobs

Qualcomm - Staff Engineer

Qualcomm

Markham, Ontario, Canada (On-Site)
2 Weeks ago
Medsender - Senior Software Engineer

Medsender

New York, United States (Hybrid)
6 Months ago
Capgemini - Principal Software Engineer

Capgemini

Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu, India (On-Site)
2 Months ago
Intel  - Chrome Field Application Engineer

Intel

Santa Clara, California, United States (Hybrid)
2 Weeks ago
Apple - Physical Design Methodology CAD Engineer

Apple

San Diego, California, United States (On-Site)
1 Month ago
N26 - Associate Engineering Manager - Memberships

N26

Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain (Hybrid)
1 Week ago
Snyk - Senior Software Engineer

Snyk

Lisbon, Lisbon, Portugal (Hybrid)
3 Weeks ago
fluence - Lead Engineer - Advanced Battery Modules

fluence

Houston, Texas, United States (Hybrid)
9 Months ago
Assystems - Principal Waste Engineer

Assystems

Blackburn, England, United Kingdom (On-Site)
9 Months ago
Qualcomm - Staff Embedded Software Development Engineer

Qualcomm

San Diego, California, United States (On-Site)
1 Month ago

Get notifed when new similar jobs are uploaded

About The Company

Want to take your career to the next level? Search open job vacancies at any of the Sony Interactive sites by visiting playstation.com/careers/


Sony Interactive Entertainment pushes the boundaries of entertainment and innovation, starting from the launch of the original PlayStation in Japan in 1994. Today, we continue to deliver innovative and thrilling experiences to a global audience through our PlayStation line of products and services that include generation-defining hardware, pioneering network services, and award-winning games. Headquartered in San Mateo, California, with global functions in California, London, and Tokyo, and game development studios around the world as part of PlayStation Studios, we believe that the power of play is borderless. Sony Interactive Entertainment is a wholly owned subsidiary of Sony Group Corporation.  


For more information about our company, please visit SonyInteractive.com. For more information about PlayStation products, please visit PlayStation.com.

Carlsbad, California, United States (On-Site)

London, England, United Kingdom (On-Site)

Aliso Viejo, California, United States (On-Site)

Carlsbad, California, United States (On-Site)

Madison, Wisconsin, United States (Hybrid)

San Mateo, California, United States (Hybrid)

São Paulo, State Of São Paulo, Brazil (Hybrid)

London, England, United Kingdom (On-Site)

United States (Remote)

San Mateo, California, United States (On-Site)

View All Jobs

Get notified when new jobs are added by PlayStation Global

Level Up Your Career in Game Development!

Transform Your Passion into Profession with Our Comprehensive Courses for Aspiring Game Developers.

Job Common Plug