Associate Technical Director

Join Jagex, the home of RuneScape, as an Associate Technical Director. In this leadership role, you will provide technical direction and guidance across multiple engineering teams responsible for critical systems that enhance the player experience. You will work closely with product and business leaders, manage relationships with outsourced engineering partners, and own technology across its full lifecycle. This is a unique opportunity to shape the future of our Player Platform and make a significant impact on the gaming industry.

• Definir la estrategia técnica para el área de la plataforma de jugadores, traduciendo esa estrategia en objetivos y resultados clave.
• Guiar la arquitectura y evolución de sistemas complejos, tomando decisiones equilibradas sobre escalabilidad, mantenibilidad y deuda técnica.
• Desarrollar y gestionar líderes técnicos senior, siendo responsable de su rendimiento, planificación de sucesión y desarrollo de capacidades.

• A strong track record of defining technical strategy, establishing and evolving engineering standards, and turning strategic direction into clear, measurable technical objectives
• Games industry experience isn’t essential. We’re equally interested in technical leaders from complex enterprise software environments who can bring mature engineering practices while getting to grips with the systems and challenges unique to Jagex
• Demonstrable experience guiding the architecture and evolution of complex systems, including situations where modern technology had to work alongside long established or legacy platforms, and experience owning technology through evaluation, procurement, modernisation and decommissioning
• Proven ability to work with product, business and technology leaders, communicating technical options, trade offs and risks clearly to technical and non technical audiences, including experience managing external engineering partners or suppliers
• Proven experience managing and developing senior technical leaders, with accountability for performance, succession, workforce planning and raising engineering capability across your teams
• Expert technical knowledge within a relevant engineering domain, with recent proximity to hands on engineering and strong working knowledge of a stack like ours: Java and Spring Boot, TypeScript and React, AWS with EKS and Kubernetes, Terraform, and event driven systems and microservices
• Significant experience leading multiple engineering teams to deliver and operate complex, business critical software systems, with accountability for priorities, dependencies, risks, resources, budgets and delivery outcomes. Experience in enterprise or large scale platform environments is particularly relevant, and games industry experience is not required