Technical Lead

The Technical Lead is responsible for the technical delivery and stability of the products. As a part of the Project Leadership they are responsible for producing a technical vision and plan for the team and ensuring that the team can hit their release deadlines. Outside of these duties, they will also spend some time working as a developer on the project - writing code and performing code reviews.
Balance technical decisions in the project leadership team, informing and supporting the team to make good decisions for upcoming systems and features. Responsible for ensuring the team finds a good balance between technical quality, end-user value and cost / time required.
Break down and estimate features. Flag technical risks within the project with the Project Leadership and the PDS Operations team and provide alternative plans for mitigation.
Produce Technical Design Documentation and plans for upcoming projects / expansions / systems.
Responsible for ensuring that the team has a good relationship with other teams (Game Teams, Engine, Tools, Build/Automation and DevOps) with a clear understanding of expectations on what each team will provide the other.
Lead your team towards becoming a motivated, high performing team of developers through techniques such as coaching and mentoring.
Accountable for the technical stability of the deliveries from a PDS project team. The product(s) should be crash-free, have good performance and have a low number of bugs and “out of sync” issues.
Responsible for the overall code quality of the team - ensuring that the code enables and empowers high programmer efficiency, regardless of seniority level.
Responsible for driving continuous improvement of the development process within the team (i.e. Code Reviews etc).
Responsible for ensuring the team works closely with PDS Tech, especially the Build and Automation team, to improve supporting services across PDS that helps us build high performance teams.