Technical Lead [Quality Foundations]

As a Technical Lead within Quality Foundations, you will define and guide the technological vision, choices, and code quality for your project, ensuring adoption of group tech direction and best practices. You will establish quality standards and foster best practices within your dev team, acting as an expert contact for game testing, other technical leads, and technology partners to ensure sustainable and coherent solutions. Quality Foundations provides tools, middleware, and services for Ubisoft game production and engine teams, supporting them throughout the life cycle with modern and tailored solutions.

Must Have

• Be employed on a permanent or fixed-term contract.
• Have spent at least 1 year in your current role at Ubisoft.
• Be eligible and willing to work where the position is located and in accordance with local legal guidelines.
• Oversee major technical decisions of your project, ensuring consistency and long-term sustainability.
• Participate along with other tech leads and architects to define best practices, standards, and strategic orientations for tools development within Quality Foundations.
• Explore and prototype new technologies, anticipate trends to contribute actively to Quality Foundations technical evolution.
• Establish the technical direction to assure system interoperability by promoting an API first approach.
• Facilitate and foster tech alignment and healthy challenge amongst the Quality Foundations technical leadership group.
• Participate actively in the upskilling of the members of the dev team by providing constructive feedback and setting evolution goals in collaboration with the team lead.
• Solid experience in programming and technical leadership.
• Excellent proficiency in C#, .Net.
• Experience with Git, CI/CD pipelines, automatic testing, application profiling, trunk-based development and modern development workflows.
• A degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or equivalent experience.
• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills, especially in distributed team environments.
• A passion for sharing knowledge and pushing technological boundaries.

Good to Have

• Knowledge of Web development languages and paradigms.
• Knowledge of SQL, Blazor, Elastic Search, Docker, Kubernetes, OpenAPI, OpenTelemetry.
• Experience with implementing or integrating Machine Learning features.
• Passionate about building cohesive, sustainable ecosystems and driving technological convergence.
• Excel at translating business needs into technical solutions and vice versa.
• Can synthesize complex situations into clear, visual, and textual representations tailored to different audiences.
• Comfortable diving into technical details while maintaining a high-level perspective.
• Strong convictions about best practices but can adapt to diverse constraints and viewpoints.
• Like acting as a mentor and care about helping developers on your team learn and develop their skills.

Before applying, please ensure you meet the below eligibility criteria:

• Be employed on a permanent or fixed-term contract,
• You need to have spent at least 1 year in your current role at Ubisoft.
• Be eligible and willing to work where the position is located and in accordance with local legal guidelines.

About Quality Foundations:

we provide tools, middleware, and services adapted to the needs of Ubisoft game production and engine teams. Whether it be middleware, back-end, data, or front-end solutions or expertise, we support our productions throughout their life cycle. Through collaboration and innovation, we contribute to boosting the efficiency of game developers by providing modern and tailored solutions.

As a Technical Lead within Quality Foundations, you will define and guide the technological vision, the technological choices, and the quality of the code of your project, ensuring the adoption of the group’s tech direction and best practices.

Your role will be essential in establishing quality standards and fostering the adoption of best practices amongst your dev team. You will act as an expert and important point of contact for members of the game testing community, technical leads and architects from other groups, and other technology partners to ensure that our solutions meet diverse needs while remaining sustainable and coherent.

Key Responsibilities

• Technical leadership: oversee major technical decisions of your project, ensuring consistency and long-term sustainability.
• Technical direction: participate along with other tech leads and architects to define best practices, standards, and strategic orientations for tools development within Quality Foundations.
• Prototyping: explore and prototype new technologies, anticipate trends to contribute actively to Quality Foundations technical evolution.
• System integration: Establish the technical direction to assure system interoperability by promoting an API first approach.
• Collaboration: facilitate and foster tech alignment and healthy challenge amongst the Quality Foundations technical leadership group.
• Mentoring: participate actively in the upskilling of the members of the dev team by providing constructive feedback and setting evolution goals in collaboration with the team lead.

Why This Role Is for You

• You’re passionate about building cohesive, sustainable ecosystems and driving technological convergence.
• You excel at translating business needs into technical solutions and vice versa.
• You can synthesize complex situations into clear, visual, and textual representations tailored to different audiences.
• You’re comfortable diving into technical details while maintaining a high-level perspective.
• You have strong convictions about best practices but can adapt to diverse constraints and viewpoints.
• You like acting as a mentor and you care about helping developers on your team learn and develop their skills

What You Bring

• Solid experience in programming and technical leadership.
• Excellent proficiency in C#, .Net.
• Experience with Git, CI/CD pipelines, automatic testing, application profiling, trunk-based development and modern development workflows
• Knowledge of Web development languages and paradigms is considered an asset
• Knowledge of SQL, Blazor, Elastic Search, Docker, Kubernetes, OpenAPI, OpenTelemetry is considered an asset
• Experience with implementing or integrating Machine Learning features is considered an asset
• A degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or equivalent experience
• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills, especially in distributed team environments.
• A passion for sharing knowledge and pushing technological boundaries.

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Additional Information

To be considered for this position, please ensure that your application includes:

• An updated CV highlighting your education, experience, skills, and games shipped

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