Senior Technical Director
CanadaFull-TimeSenior
Salary180000 - 240000 CAD per year
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Job Details
- Required Skills
- Game DevelopmentUnreal engineRisk Management
Requirements
- Significant experience in senior engineering leadership roles within the game development industry
- Proven ability to manage and mentor technical leads across multiple concurrent projects
- Strong experience evaluating complex codebases and assessing technical feasibility, risk, and staffing needs
- Hands-on familiarity with both proprietary and commercial engines (e.g., Unreal, Unity, or custom engines)
- Experience across remasters, ports, live operations, co-development, or external partner projects
- Strong understanding of engineering pipelines, build systems, tooling, and early project setup practices
- Ability to translate technical constraints into clear production planning, including scheduling and resource tradeoffs
- Demonstrated experience hiring, developing, and scaling high-performing engineering teams
- Excellent communication skills, with the ability to engage both technical teams and external partners effectively
- Strong systems thinking with the ability to balance long-term technical quality and short-term delivery needs
Responsibilities
- Lead and support technical directors and engineering leads across multiple active game projects
- Provide studio-wide technical direction, ensuring alignment on architecture, engineering standards, and delivery practices
- Own technical hiring strategy for senior engineering roles, including evaluation, selection, and team composition planning
- Conduct technical due diligence for partner opportunities such as remasters, ports, co-development, and live operations
- Define and support early-stage project setup, including pipelines, tooling, middleware selection, and engineering workflows
- Identify and manage technical risks across projects, including performance, integration, scalability, and architectural challenges
- Collaborate closely with production leadership to align technical constraints with scheduling, staffing, and delivery planning
- Support teams in resolving complex engineering challenges while maintaining clarity, momentum, and ownership
- Drive cross-functional engineering standards and improve collaboration between engineering, design, art, QA, and production teams
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