Team Lead Quality Foundations

Before applying, please ensure you meet the below eligibility criteria:

• Be employed on a permanent or fixed-term contract,
• You need to have spent at least 1 year in your current role at Ubisoft. 
• Be eligible and willing to work where the position is located and in accordance with local legal guidelines.

About Quality Foundations: we provide tools, middleware, and services adapted to the needs of Ubisoft game production and engine teams. Whether it be middleware, back-end, data, or front-end solutions or expertise, we support our productions throughout their life cycle. Through collaboration and innovation, we contribute to boosting the efficiency of game developers by providing modern and tailored solutions. 

As a Quality Foundations Team Lead, you help build and guide a new developer tools team composed of talented and inspired team members who develop technologies needed to create tools for the games that Ubisoft fans have come to expect. Your technological know-how, leadership skills, and ability to make informed decisions will help you fulfill your ambitions. Your work will be filled with passion and pride. 

Driven by a desire to see your team members flourish, you will support them in their professional development by seeing to their well-being, acting as their spokesperson in meetings with other teams and management, and ensuring that each person is in a position that stimulates them and lets them shine. 

Your global vision and deep understanding of what everyone does on your team will allow you to coordinate the work and multiply the results of everyone's efforts. What motivates you the most is to see your team grow and deliver quality, consistent systems that will help provide the rich gaming experience our players are looking for. You will capitalize on your presence in a Ubisoft studio with a strong QC expertise to foster close feedback loops with local game testing experts representing the target audience of your project. You will also foster collaboration between your team and the other teams within your organization located in France and Canada. 

Key Responsibilities 

• Participate in the recruitment process of the team you will be leading 
• Plan, distribute tasks, and follow up on the progress of various projects during team meetings. 
• Provide your team with the tools they need to work independently and contribute to the long-term technological vision of the projects. 
• Meet individually with each member of your team to discuss performance, well-being, and career advancement. 
• Rollout best development standards and practices (e.g. trunk-based development, inner source, CICD, devops) in your team aligned with the group's guidelines and architects 
• Take part in the development team responsibilities: design, code, review, test, documentation, support 
• Communicate regularly with your project lead to plan, assess risks, and deliver on time 
• Meet with other leads, both on your project and others, to discuss ways to improve processes and share technologies 

What You Bring

• A bachelor's degree in computer science, computer engineering, or an equivalent field 
• Professional experience managing a team of programmers 
• Solid experience in programming (C#, .Net, Blazor) 
• Experience and knowledge of Agile frameworks (especially Kanban or Scrum) 
• Strong organizational skills 
• Excellent communication and strategic leadership skills coupled with strong empathy and diplomacy 
• The ability to remain calm in difficult situations 
• Knowledge of UX and UI principles is a plus 
• Experience and understanding of video game production and game quality engineering is a plus 

Don't match all the criteria but think you fit? 

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