Technical Development Manager iGaming

Light & Wonder is the global leader in cross-platform games and entertainment.
The company brings together 5,000 employees from six continents to connect content between land-based and digital channels with unmatched technology and distribution. Guided by a culture that values daring teamwork and creativity, Light & Wonder builds new worlds of play, developing game experiences loved by players around the globe. The company’s OpenGaming(tm) platform powers the largest digital-gaming network in the industry. Light & Wonder is committed to the highest standards of integrity, from promoting player responsibility to implementing sustainable practices. To learn more, visit lnw.com.

We are looking for an talented Technical Development Manager leader to deveop our portfolio of online Bingo and Lottery products for our customers.
What we see in you is a deep understanding of people and agile game development procecces but also a strong technical leader who can help identify and drive architectural improvements to our Bingo plattform

As the Technical Development Manager you will:

- Join our team that will ensure a high level of productivity, agility, and is passionate about people and our products
- In addition to working on new product requirements are we also looking to improve our platform to ensure it can support ever increasing volumes of players and to reduce the timescales/effort of delivery to new customers
- Work with the existing team members to identify and drive through a program of work to allow us to meet these business objectives


To be able to succeed in this position we think you need to bring the following
Tech Experience:

- You have a proven experience tackling a wide variety of production tasks, including working and leading a team of developers, artists and QA engineers


- Experience of working in creative industries and can demonstrate the success launching and managing games across global markets
- Hands on experience of delivering and working with complex and high volume systems
- Knowledge of the most common tools and methodologies for software development and design
- Able to make the right technical decisions driven by a commercial understanding
- Excellent ability to collaborate and manage the expectations of stakeholders, tailoring your approach when communicating to technical and non-technical audiences
- Work with the team to identify and prioritise technical improvements to the product
- Problem Solver. Identify and fix bottlenecks, as well as clearing roadblocks both on the day-to-day and in the longer term
- Cheerlead. Provide motivation, direction, and improve best practices within the team
- Great attention to detail and excellent communication skills
- Can-do attitude
- Strong analytical, interpersonal and decision-making skills
- A drive to keep learning and inspiring


Qualifications:

- 5+ years of experience in the digital creative industries
- Experience of systems: SQL Server, React, Kafka, C++, AWS, Containers
- Experience and passion for agile development environment


Tech knowledge:

- You have a excellent leadership and coaching skills with the ability to transform business and people needs into tangible results, while inspiring and growing the teams, individuals, and processes simultaneously
- Solid experience in implementing Agile-development-based best practices, principles, and methodologies
- Managing the full continuous development cycle, from planning a new release through to going live
- You are detail-oriented with great organizational skills and comfort with ambiguity
- You are a leader and have the ability to make sound decisions in a fast-paced environment and able to work with remote teams and across time zones to foster a cohesive and creative work environment
- Comfortable within a highly technical environment and leading development
in a high transactional environment
- Experience of working with regulated markets, ISO27001 and audits
- A solid experience in leading continuous development in releases for our gaming platform as well as shorter development cycles for online scratch ticket and similar games


Personality:

- You thrive in a dynamic and fun environment and can showcase proven successes on a wide variety of projects that you have lead
- You’re seeking a fast-paced friendly environment, then come and help us make games that will be successful worldwide


This is a fantastic career opportunity, and we offer a great workplace based in the city Centre of Stockholm

At Light & Wonder, all our team members are known as Creators and we empower them to innovate, champion ground-breaking ideas, and bring courage - and fun - to work every day

The Light & Wonder people are committed, knowledgeable, international and very friendly.
The atmosphere is social and generous and we combine WFH with office presence.
In this position will you also get to travel to our other locations.
Have a look at our website for more information www.lnw.com

Application:

In this recruitment we partner with Edge of Talent. Please turn to Petra Saareste at petra.saareste@edgeoftalent.com for questions or advise on applications or recruitment process.

The process will be managed continuously and when we have found our candidate we will close the process

We are looking forward to your application,
Welcome!