IT Solutions Architect, Bungie
Enterprise Applications
$166-195k
More information about location
Video game studio
Job no longer available
Video game studio
1001+ employees
Job no longer available
$166-195k
More information about location
1001+ employees
Company mission
To create hopeful worlds that inspire passionate player communities and lifelong friendships.
Role
Who you are
- Experience in Designing and engineering Enterprise Applications and environments at scale, including redundancy planning, design, performance troubleshooting
- Knowledge and experience in at least some of the following (M365, Workday, Miro, Confluence, Jira, Panopto)
- Ability to quickly become conversationally fluent about a particular application or application suite
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills
- Ability to work independently to solve challenging problems and provide recommendations in a timely manner
- Collaborates with department or team leads to work on complex issues or projects within their platform ecosystem(s)
- Managing and participating in complex projects with multiple team members and stakeholders
- Knowledge of datacenter and live production best practices and experience working in live high availability customer facing production environments
- Experience configuring SSO for SaaS and on-prem applications
Desirable
- Experience with Software Asset Management systems and processes
- Experience with data migrations as part of mergers and acquisitions
What the job involves
- As an IT Solutions Architect at Bungie, you will architect, implement, and support technology solutions for our studio & datacenter operations, global partner integrations and customer facing production systems
- While this role is not a direct people manager, you’ll provide technical area leadership to a team of highly experienced IT engineers and administrators to continuously improve and evolve our technology infrastructures to ensure Bungie remains at the pinnacle as an entertainment company
- Providing architecture, support and planning guidance to engineers and administrators dedicated to specific applications
- Create governance and support models for applications with no dedicated owners
- Collaborate with Identity and Infosec teams to craft RBAC guidelines and capabilities matrix for new applications
- Work with Legal, Procurement, Infosec and Support teams to create and maintain our software and SaaS request and onboarding processes
- Working with all levels of the organization, both technical and non-technical, facilitating interactive design and functional specification sessions
- Partner with business stakeholders to understand business needs and guide software evaluation and rationalization
- Provides direct or indirect guidance and mentorship in the coordination of the activities of a small team
- Driving new technology throughout the company
- Strong business acumen and ability to communicate with stakeholders
- Research, selection, planning, and implementation of new technologies to support scaling of applications to meet customer and business needs
- Reviews and advises on project and delivery plans
- Drives teams to close through prioritization and scoping
- Contributes to policy and vision creation in area of expertise, including plans for support and operations
- Work with team members to troubleshoot complex issues and work with lower tier support on escalations
- Assist with ongoing training for our IT Administration and Support teams
- Investigate and keep up with new technology to identify where our projects and environments can benefit from its use
- Maintain documentation of systems and processes
- Provide after-hours escalation assistance as the highest escalation point for sub-discipline related issues
Our take
As one of the leading video game companies in the US, Bungie’s former titles have included bestselling game franchises such as Halo and Destiny, marking it as a next-gen studio that is keeping its finger on the next-gen games console pulse.
Bungie scaled up in the early noughties thanks to an acquisition by Microsoft, leading to a period where Bungie made games for a variety of consoles. In 2022, it was bought by Sony for $3.6 billion, though it claims that it will still work across different platforms despite its owner’s lean towards PlayStation.
Indeed, Sony claims to have bought Bungie for its help in entering the live service games market. In return, Bungie will benefit by scaling up its team for new game and DLC releases. This is a promising direction, although it is worth noting that the underperformance of Destiny 2 has cast a few worries on the nature of Bungie's independent future.
Kirsty
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
19% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (1 round)
Jun 2018
$100m
GROWTH EQUITY VC
Total funding: $100m
Company benefits
- Contract and International FTE employees receive competitive benefits through their relevant contracting agency
- 20 days of accrued time-off in the form of PTO and sabbatical days, depending on the level of the position
- 10 paid Floating Days annually, prorated in the first year of employment based on start date
- 10 paid Bungie-observed holidays annually
- One hour of Paid Sick Time (PST) for every 30 hours worked
Company HQ
West Bellevue, Bellevue, WA
Leadership
Pete Parsons
(CEO & Chairman)Currently Board member for Boys and Girls Clubs of Bellevue. Previously Co-Founder and Inventor of Meteor Solutions, and an Executive Producer at Microsoft.
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