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HEAD OF SOFTWARE FOR RARE LTD.
Duties and Responsibilities:
Manage all Lead Software Engineers (game projects and shared technology groups); this includes mentoring, handling appraisals and helping to build strong technical teams rather than directing day-to-day work.
Own the recruitment strategy for the software group to ensure we have the talent and resources needed to complete current and future projects.
Oversee engineer staffing decisions to ensure that software teams function as efficiently as possible given the resources across the entire studio.
Represent the interests and needs of the software group, and provide technical information and insight during studio decision making and planning within the Senior Management Team.
Work closely with the Heads of Art and Production to ensure that all Rare titles are of the highest possible quality and delivered on time and budget.
Promote and structure ongoing professional development for software engineers.
Promote and facilitate good communication between different software teams across the studio to create and maintain a healthy software development 'community' and establish and share 'best practices' for engineering excellence.
Perform technical due diligence with the game teams at Rare to understand and guide their risks and work with external partners to do due diligence with them as required.
Sign off on the quarterly technical roadmap planning conducted by the Lead Software group.
Be the principal technical point of contact for any and all external parties, including the rest of Microsoft but also middleware providers.
Represent Rare as part of the MGS Studio Development Managers group.
Represent Rare as part of the world-wide development community, e.g. GDC.
Liaise with IEB teams in Europe and Redmond; this will involve travel as required.
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