Senior Engineering Manager - Build Team | Shared Tech

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Job Description:

As a Sr. Engineering Manager at King your primary responsibility is to be a servant leader to the team you support, helping them grow as engineers and delivering significant value to users of the products and services they are developing and operating.  

As an Engineering Manager, you are an ambassador of innovation in the team. You have a technical background in software development, enabling you to support and guide the team, sustaining healthy technology and careers. You will partner with Product Managers and other leaders, to define strategy and execution for the teams.

Be a part of Game Production (GP) Technology, bringing flow to other developers within King. We are a team of 100+ skilled, knowledgeable, and passionate people,. We are cross- located in Barcelona, Stockholm, London, Berlin and Malmö, with a flexible hybrid working model. The technology we produce is used across more than 14 different King games including Candy Crush Saga with nearly a quarter of a billion mobile game players every month.

You will be working with the Build team, a Team that supports developers all across King by supporting continuous delivery technology working closely with game teams and our engine teams all over King. 

Your role within our Kingdom

As a Sr. Engineering Manager (EM), you will work together with the team to ensure a timely delivery of technical solutions to address business needs while advocating advanced modern, agile software development practices and helping develop and promote great engineering and organizational practices. We value having fun together. Nurturing healthy, collaborative engineering culture in line with our values  and playful culture. You will also join our engineering management community and collaborate with the product organization.

Skills to create thrills

• Align with game stakeholders

• Align with Game Production (GP) managers and leadership

• Support Technical Directors with strategy decision making

  • Engineering Manager (EM) must be able to share and defend architectural and delivery decisions that the team has taken, hence needs to understand technical details

  • Independently contribute to the long term Engineering vision, strategy and roadmap for your organization. 

• Independently partner with the PO, ED, TD and other stakeholders to ensure the right resources are available when executing product delivery roadmaps.

• Deploy and redeploy people among teams if/when priorities change.

• Contribute to the local Tech culture, exploring ways to improve how we work and evolve future of workplace thinking.

• Deep domain knowledge and expertise in CI/CD

• Inform and influence new release management (enable new release strategy)

• Contribute to build or buy evaluations

• Independently contribute to planning the implementation of new systems, migrations and deprecation

• Evolve ways of working with metrics, data driven and data informed

Healthy team

• Accountable to define the right structure in the team to deliver against the product priorities, and ensure that the right skillset is available in the team.

  • Develop strong communication and collaboration skills within team and to enable embedment in other teams

  • Grow support and service mindset

  • Grow skills that support user enablement 

• Manage and prioritize a large team and evolving product area

  • Solid experience managing tech teams, and successfully solving organizational challenges, and being comfortable leading a team of up to 10 people.

• You have the ability to encourage, grow, lead and develop a team to high performance standards and an inclusive culture

• Ability to steer to collaboration, balancing between stakeholder approval and forward momentum.

• Experience building meaningful products. You are focused around the outcome over the output.

• Demonstrate verbal/written communication and interpersonal skills that nurture a cooperative environment.

About King

At King, we're Making the World Playful. Heard of Candy Crush? We're the creators behind it. With game studios in Stockholm, Malmö, London, Barcelona and Berlin, and offices in Dublin, San Francisco, New York, and Malta, we have a 20-year history of delivering some of the world's most iconic games in the mobile gaming industry and are on a mission to level-up the little moments for our more than 200 million active monthly users. But we aren't just crushing it with candies, we're also behind Farm Heroes, Bubble Witch, Pet Rescue and loads of other sweet games. As a leading interactive entertainment company for the mobile world, King is part of Activision Blizzard, which was acquired by Microsoft.