Technical Director - Project Zanaris

Are you an experienced Technical Leader who wants to drive the development of the next iteration of content creation for Old School RuneScape?

As the Technical Director on Project Zanaris you will guide the product's technical direction, making critical decisions on architecture, tools, and processes that will empower the engineering teams and set them up for success.

This is a hugely impactful role in the studio where you will ensure the technical strategy aligns with the overall product and business objectives, fostering innovation while maintaining a strong focus on efficiency, scalability and quality.

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• Create, execute and maintain the technical strategy for Project Zanaris and Community Server
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• Deliver & communicate updates on the product's technical progress and risks to senior leadershi
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• Build, lead, mentor and manage a multi-discipline team of talented engineers and engineering leader
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• Foster growth in the team's knowledge and nurture the development of the their technical skills, encouraging continuous learning and improvemen
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• Engage in the creation of a technical people pipeline that is in line with the needs of the produc
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• Collaborate with design, product, analytics, and leadership teams to specify features for developmen
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• Develop and communicate a compelling and clear technical strategy aligned with overall product objectives and vision, ensuring a shared understanding among stakeholders and the development tea
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• Actively engage with stakeholders to gather feedback and communicate technical updates, progress, and risks, fostering a collaborative relationship with stakeholders throughout the development proces
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• Help build and execute transparent roadmaps, create and deploy best-in-class processes, proactively identify and resolve issues, and innovate in software development.
 
• Identify areas of technical improvement, establish and refine the technical strategy, and work directly with the relevant teams to implement that strategy throughout the product areas.
 

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• } Proven experience in leading the technical direction of large-scale projects in the games indust
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• y Demonstrable experience of providing meaningful, scalable improvement to technical processes and pipelin
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• s A successful track record of successfully leading, managing, mentoring and scaling engineering teams and engineering leaders across multiple disciplin
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• s Demonstrable experience working with legacy tech stacks and achieving successful results through strong leadership and setting achievable objectiv
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• s A proven understanding of and background working with and leading on Cloud Infrastructure and Web Engineeri
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• g Extensive experience communicating complex technical concepts into actionable strategies for stakeholders at all leve
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• s Proven experience crafting and implementing long-term technical strategies that align with business objectives and product visi
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• n Excellent knowledge and experience of fostering collaboration across cross-functional teams, including design, analytics, and leadership, to achieve technical and product goa
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• lan Minimum 6% Pension contribut
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• nce Discretionary annual performance b
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• nus Enhanced family leave policies from d
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• y 1 Flexible working h
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• urs 25 days annual leave + Bank holidays & the option to buy/sell holidays + so much m
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e!  Collaboration is at the heart of Jagex. We love getting together with our teams to share ideas and social

ise.If you live in the UK, we offer a flexible working model that empowers you to work in the way that suits you best, while also getting the best from your working relationship with all the great people you'll be connecting with here. We support you to be set up for success no matter where you log

in.Flexibility really is the key to how we set up working schedules, we'll discuss your needs with you and be transparent about the working schedules of the team you'll be working with during our interview proc

ess.Please note that due to us approaching the Christmas & New Year break, we have many people among the hiring teams who are on annual leave or will be absent due to the studio closing over the holiday per
iod.This means that, in most cases, applications made during December are unlikely to proceed to interview until January 2025. We appreciate your patience during this t

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me. About Jagex{

​{:}}Make forever games wit

h us.Jagex is a thriving international games company with a growing library of forever game IPs for core gamers. We have such huge expertise at running games for the long term that we re-define expectations for what evergreen success looks

like.We create spaces for our players to come together - with each other and with us - inside and outside of our games. We empower our players with real influence on the game's evolution. We help our players belong. Our community experiences give players a greater stake in what they're playing, creating loyal forever

fans.These strengths inform our vision of our studio as a thriving international games company with a growing library of forever game IPs for core gamers. Our forever games will nurture sizable communities whose loyalty provides consistent reve

nues.This in turn drives our mission{​{:}} We create forever fans by empowering our community. We give players experiences worthy of their long-term time investment and actively collaborate with them to shape the games and the community for the b

etter.If this is something you want to be a part of, get in

touch.We have 500 of the industry's most talented individuals in our Cambridge studio; if you share our values and ambition, we'd love to talk to you. Worried you don't meet all the requirements in the spec? Your attitude, fresh perspective and experience is just as important to us; if you think this could be the perfect job for you, let's