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Reporting to the Vice President, the Techincal Director will be responsible for the Game Studio and production technical environments. This includes hardware, software, and network architectures and operations. 
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The Technical Director is uniquely qualified to understand game development at a strategic as well as tactical level. The Technical Director would challenge and set development process &amp; technical standards &amp; guidelines for the gaming platform, understand data and work flow, provide high level direction.
The candidate will be key contributor to the Studios Team.&nbsp;
<h6>Key Responsibilities&nbsp;</h6>
Technical Oversight
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<li class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-pagination: none; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-list: l2 level1 lfo4; tab-stops: list .5in;">Responsible for the game studio technical environment.</li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-pagination: none; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-list: l2 level1 lfo4; tab-stops: list .5in;">Provide technical strategic direction for hardware, software and networking for both development and end-user platform.</li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-pagination: none; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-list: l2 level1 lfo4; tab-stops: list .5in;">Define and support overall technical design, code quality, and game architecture.</li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-pagination: none; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-list: l2 level1 lfo4; tab-stops: list .5in;">Identify, evaluate, recommend and implement development tools and procedures.</li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-pagination: none; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-list: l2 level1 lfo4; tab-stops: list .5in;">Review programming code for quality, consistency and compliance with established protocol.</li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-pagination: none; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-list: l2 level1 lfo4; tab-stops: list .5in;">Managing departmental budget requirements.</li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-pagination: none; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-list: l2 level1 lfo4; tab-stops: list .5in;">Manage 3rd party partnerships and process</li>
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Functional Collaboration
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<li class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-pagination: none; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-list: l3 level1 lfo2; tab-stops: list .5in;">Work with the Toronto IT team to enforce Corporate Security, system compatibilities and plan networking improvement</li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-pagination: none; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-list: l3 level1 lfo2; tab-stops: list .5in;">Drive strong collaboration with functional leads both within and outside the organization</li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-pagination: none; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-list: l3 level1 lfo2; tab-stops: list .5in;">Foster relationships with peer experts in other studios, share best practices.</li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-pagination: none; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-list: l3 level1 lfo2; tab-stops: list .5in;">Identify technical problems, and work with producers, leads and other directors to solve them.</li>
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Schedule Management
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<li class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-pagination: none; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-list: l2 level1 lfo4; tab-stops: list .5in;">Sets project milestone targets, and defines development efficiency and game performance metrics </li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-pagination: none; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-list: l2 level1 lfo4; tab-stops: list .5in;">Evaluate milestone achievements for technical completion, quality and compliance. </li>
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Staff Management
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<li class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-pagination: none; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-list: l3 level1 lfo2; tab-stops: list .5in;">Manage engineering and operations staff </li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-list: l3 level1 lfo2; tab-stops: list .5in;">Manage career growth of staff</li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-list: l3 level1 lfo2; tab-stops: list .5in;">Manage recruitment efforts&nbsp;</li>
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<h6>Key Metrics</h6>
&middot;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Properly functioning internal and production technical environment
&middot;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Functioning engineering and operations process and oversight methodology
&middot;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Strong collaborative relationship with studio team leads and head office IT&nbsp;
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Skills &amp; Experience Requirements&nbsp;
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<li class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo3; tab-stops: list .5in;">Education - BS in Computer Science or Equivalent</li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo3; tab-stops: list .5in;">3+ Years in similar role</li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo3; tab-stops: list .5in;">6+ Years of direct programming experience</li>
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<li class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo3; tab-stops: list .5in;">Ability to architect multi-player game networks</li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo3; tab-stops: list .5in;">Ability to manage ongoing game network operations (MMO expereince preferred)</li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo3; tab-stops: list .5in;">Strong coding/debugging skills</li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo3; tab-stops: list .5in;">Strong Skills: Leadership, problem solving, organizational, written, verbal, project management.</li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo3; tab-stops: list .5in;">Ability to work in fast-paced, ever-evolving environment, while maintaining technical integrity and performance.</li>
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