Technical Director - d3t

d3t is at the forefront of videogame technology and creativity, delivering experienced co-development services to some of the biggest AAA clients in the world. Our studio, part of the global Keywords Studios Group, works on multiple exciting projects at any one time, offering plenty of variety and involvement.

Our studio projects have included EA SPORTS FC™ 26, Hogwarts Legacy, Exoborne, Mafia: The Old Country, Alan Wake Remastered, Marvel’s Guardians of the Galaxy, LEGO Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga, The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt, Vampire The Masquerade - Blood Hunt, Mafia II: Definitive Edition, and Assetto Corsa Competizione. We also work in partnership with our global clients including: Playground Games, EA and Archetype Entertainment.

The d3t studios are based near Daresbury (Cheshire), Newcastle (Tyne & Wear) and Madrid where we offer an amazingly professional and supportive working environment. We are passionate about what we do and pride ourselves on our anti-crunch mentality, mentoring ethos and have been awarded ‘Best Places to Work’ multiple times by gamesindustry.biz. In addition, we won ‘Best Creative Service Provider’ at Develop 2022 and were nominated in 2023 & 2024.

THE ROLE - TECHNICAL DIRECTOR

d3t are in a position to hire a key member of our engineering department to enable us to take on new projects and opportunities. We are looking for a permanent Technical Director to join our established Engineering Team. The role can be based in either of our UK studio sites (Daresbury or Newcastle), on a hybrid working basis. The working pattern is 3 days per week in the studio: Wednesday, Thursday and another day of your choice.

A Technical Director at d3t plays a key role in the engineering department, being the technical owner and point of contact both internally and externally with our clients on our outsourcing and co development projects. They ensure excellent technical standards, leadership, and technical decision making, as well as being hands on in the development and planning of the work from project kick off to completion. Technical Directors at d3t have the opportunity to work with world renowned clients from across the globe on a variety of projects, from full project development including; new IP, ports, remasters and remakes, to platform ownership, feature ownership and code base consultations. Technical Directors at d3t may also get involved in technical response to RFPs, new technologies, plug-ins, systems and other internal initiatives.

RESPONSIBILITIES

Technical lead for co-dev, outsource, new IP, ports, remasters and/or remakes

Project kick off and infrastructure setup; establishing build pipelines, CI/CD, coding standards

Project high level technical planning, decisions, delegation and risk management

Technical evaluation and decisions on appropriate software, tech stacks for current and potential projects.

Ensuring and encouraging high quality of engineering through leadership, establishing standards, reviews and sign offs on TDDs and code submissions.

Technical communications with all disciplines, leadership teams and stakeholders.

Global collaboration with client developers.

Represent the studio's technical capabilities in potential and current client calls.

Code base consultation and evaluation, modern and archived.

Technical knowledge sharing and advice across departments.

Identification of new tools, software and their development.