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SYSTEMS DEVELOPMENT DIRECTOR
Tasks and Responsibilities:

We are looking for a high-caliber professional with strong organizational abilities, a good intellectual capacity, and a thorough knowledge of product and service development principles to serve as the System Development Director of SPIL GAMES. In this role, you will manage a platform that handles billions of hits each day, lead the Systems Development Department (with a staff of 8), and report to the CTO. Your tasks, among others, will be:
  • Managing the Systems Development Team and keeping its activities within budget;
  • People management and employing a strong sense of business acumen in this otherwise fundamentally technical role;
  • Balancing the use of staff, subcontracted resources, and third-party service providers to meet business needs;
  • Promoting and stimulating cooperation between the Systems Development Team and Portal Development Teams;
  • Influencing the thinking of, or gaining the acceptance of, others in sensitive and technical situations;
  • Gathering requirements and building, delivering, and scaling our next-generation infrastructure and monitoring platform, a critical technical part of the company's success (as we recognize that more effective tools increase revenue, our engineering team is not relegated to a "support" role);
  • Aligning the engineering processes with the work of the rest of the teams and developing your team's work to best help the organization maximize performance, scalability, quality, and up-time.


Your profile:
  • HBO/Bachelor's level education
  • A minimum of ten years experience in software and network systems engineering
  • At least five years experience leading a mixed-discipline team in a Linux environment
  • Experience with motivating and managing professional/technical staff is essential: the ideal candidate will have experience in objective setting and have developed key performance indicators to measure and deliver productivity improvements
  • Technical skills coupled with sound commercial acumen and excellent interpersonal skills that allow the candidate to show leadership both within his/her own team and across the company
  • Open-source minded
  • Experience in the gaming industry is desirable, but not essential
  • Able to create a long-term vision and implement short-term deliverables
  • Excellent verbal and written skills in English

SPIL GAMES offers:
  • A competitive salary
  • A chance to be part of a fast-growing company
  • Good secondary benefits
  • A motivating bonus system
  • A fun and dynamic work environment

For more information:

Eduard Burer, HR Director
Phone number: +31 (0) 35 6466 382

Please send your CV and a motivation letter to: .

No solicitations from third parties, please.

SPIL GAMES
Arendstraat 23
NL-1223 RE Hilversum
www.spilgames.com

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