Architect - Enterprise Infrastructure [Remote]
Electronic Arts creates next-level entertainment experiences that inspire players and fans around the world. Here, everyone is part of the story. Part of a community that connects across the globe. A place where creativity thrives, new perspectives are invited, and ideas matter. A team where everyone makes play happen.
Role Overview
Electronic Arts is looking for a hands-on Enterprise Architect to help shape the next generation of EA's technology landscape. As an Enterprise Architect, you will be reporting to the Director of Enterprise Architecture. You will work as an individual contributor.
EA's Information Technology (EAIT) team connects the company's global workforce, ensuring seamless collaboration and operational efficiency. IT supports diverse enterprise needs from game development to marketing and publishing with innovative solutions that foster creativity and productivity. As a member of EAIT, you'll play a pivotal role in empowering EA's employees and ensuring the smooth operation of a global digital entertainment leader.
Responsibilities
Enterprise & Platform Architecture
• Define and maintain EA's enterprise architecture standards, reference architectures and technology roadmaps.
• Lead architecture for hybrid cloud platforms ensuring understanding to EA's scalability, performance and security requirements.
• Increase adoption of cloud-native patterns including microservices, APIs, service mesh, event-driven design and container-based workloads.
OpenShift & Cloud-Native Engineering
• You will be EA's SME for OpenShift Virtualization and Kubernetes platform architecture, governance and workload patterns.
• Define deployment strategies supporting global scale for game dev enivornment.
• Guide platform enhancements including operators, networking, storage, security controls and developer experience.
Hands-On Technical Execution
• Develop and publish engineering patterns, reusable frameworks and reference implementations.
• Contribute to proof-of-concepts and solution prototypes in languages such as Go, Java, or Python.
• Provide architectural oversight for complex systems ensuring resiliency, observability and operational readiness.
• Establish standards for IaC using Terraform, Helm, GitOps and CI/CD.
• Lead modernization of provisioning, configuration and deployment pipelines to ensure consistency, traceability and velocity.
• Implement automation-first approaches for configuration, compliance and operations.
• Embed security-by-design across architectures working with EA Security teams.
• Promote best practices in observability, DevOps, SRE.
• Partner with engineering teams, studios and platform groups to ensure architectural alignment and technical clarity.
• Conduct design reviews, mentor engineering teams and provide executive-level architectural guidance.
• Contribute to EA's long-term technology evolution by evaluating emerging standards, tools and cloud services.
Qualifications
• 10+ years of experience in enterprise architecture, platform engineering and software engineering.
• Expertise with OpenShift and enterprise Kubernetes platforms.
• Hands-on coding experience (Go, Java, Python, or comparable).
• Experience designing large-scale, distributed cloud-native systems.
• Deep experience with IaC (Terraform, Helm, Ansible, GitOps) and CI/CD frameworks.
• Hybrid cloud architecture experience across AWS, Azure or GCP combined with on-premises environments.
• Foundation in networking, security models, API architecture and integration frameworks.
• Experience with service mesh, operator design, API gateways and event-driven architectures.
• Background in observability stacks (Prometheus, Grafana, ELK/EFK) and SRE practices.
• Experience supporting large-scale consumer or gaming platforms.
• Certifications: RHCA, RHOCP and Kubernetes certs (CKA, CKAD, CKS).
This is a hybrid remote/in-office role.
We want to connect you with job opportunities that align with your interests, skills, and expertise. When you create an EA Careers Account and are logged into the portal, you can click ''Get Recommendations'' to view a curated list of job openings. These recommendations are enhanced by automated processing, including artificial intelligence, and take into account your skills and experience. However, all employment decisions are made by our hiring teams, not by automated systems.
Pay Transparency - North America
COMPENSATION AND BENEFITS
The ranges listed below are what EA in good faith expects to pay applicants for this role in these locations at the time of this posting. If you reside in a different location, a recruiter will advise on the applicable range and benefits. Pay offered will be determined based on a number of relevant business and candidate factors (e.g. education, qualifications, certifications, experience, skills, geographic location, or business needs).
PAY RANGES
• Ontario *$138,700 - $188,700 CAD
Pay is just one part of the overall compensation at EA.
For Canada, we offer a package of benefits including vacation (3 weeks per year to start), 10 days per year of sick time, paid top-up to EI/QPIP benefits up to 100% of base salary when you welcome a new child (12 weeks for maternity, and 4 weeks for parental/adoption leave), extended health/dental/vision coverage, life insurance, disability insurance, retirement plan to regular full-time employees. Certain roles may also be eligible for bonus and equity.
This role is for an existing vacancy.
About Electronic Arts
We're proud to have an extensive portfolio of games and experiences, locations around the world, and opportunities across EA. We value adaptability, resilience, creativity, and curiosity. From leadership that brings out your potential, to creating space for learning and experimenting, we empower you to do great work and pursue opportunities for growth.
We adopt a holistic approach to our benefits programs, emphasizing physical, emotional, financial, career, and community wellness to support a balanced life. Our packages are tailored to meet local needs and may include healthcare coverage, mental well-being support, retirement savings, paid time off, family leaves, complimentary games, and more. We nurture environments where our teams can always bring their best to what they do.
Electronic Arts is an equal opportunity employer. All employment decisions are made without regard to race, color, national origin, ancestry, sex, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, age, genetic information, religion, disability, medical condition, pregnancy, marital status, family status, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. We will also consider employment qualified applicants with criminal records in accordance with applicable law. EA also makes workplace accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities as required by applicable law.
Note: Posting is subject to change so please refer to career site for latest availability (SBJ-G337).
Apply Now
Apply Now
Role Overview
Electronic Arts is looking for a hands-on Enterprise Architect to help shape the next generation of EA's technology landscape. As an Enterprise Architect, you will be reporting to the Director of Enterprise Architecture. You will work as an individual contributor.
EA's Information Technology (EAIT) team connects the company's global workforce, ensuring seamless collaboration and operational efficiency. IT supports diverse enterprise needs from game development to marketing and publishing with innovative solutions that foster creativity and productivity. As a member of EAIT, you'll play a pivotal role in empowering EA's employees and ensuring the smooth operation of a global digital entertainment leader.
Responsibilities
Enterprise & Platform Architecture
• Define and maintain EA's enterprise architecture standards, reference architectures and technology roadmaps.
• Lead architecture for hybrid cloud platforms ensuring understanding to EA's scalability, performance and security requirements.
• Increase adoption of cloud-native patterns including microservices, APIs, service mesh, event-driven design and container-based workloads.
OpenShift & Cloud-Native Engineering
• You will be EA's SME for OpenShift Virtualization and Kubernetes platform architecture, governance and workload patterns.
• Define deployment strategies supporting global scale for game dev enivornment.
• Guide platform enhancements including operators, networking, storage, security controls and developer experience.
Hands-On Technical Execution
• Develop and publish engineering patterns, reusable frameworks and reference implementations.
• Contribute to proof-of-concepts and solution prototypes in languages such as Go, Java, or Python.
• Provide architectural oversight for complex systems ensuring resiliency, observability and operational readiness.
• Establish standards for IaC using Terraform, Helm, GitOps and CI/CD.
• Lead modernization of provisioning, configuration and deployment pipelines to ensure consistency, traceability and velocity.
• Implement automation-first approaches for configuration, compliance and operations.
• Embed security-by-design across architectures working with EA Security teams.
• Promote best practices in observability, DevOps, SRE.
• Partner with engineering teams, studios and platform groups to ensure architectural alignment and technical clarity.
• Conduct design reviews, mentor engineering teams and provide executive-level architectural guidance.
• Contribute to EA's long-term technology evolution by evaluating emerging standards, tools and cloud services.
Qualifications
• 10+ years of experience in enterprise architecture, platform engineering and software engineering.
• Expertise with OpenShift and enterprise Kubernetes platforms.
• Hands-on coding experience (Go, Java, Python, or comparable).
• Experience designing large-scale, distributed cloud-native systems.
• Deep experience with IaC (Terraform, Helm, Ansible, GitOps) and CI/CD frameworks.
• Hybrid cloud architecture experience across AWS, Azure or GCP combined with on-premises environments.
• Foundation in networking, security models, API architecture and integration frameworks.
• Experience with service mesh, operator design, API gateways and event-driven architectures.
• Background in observability stacks (Prometheus, Grafana, ELK/EFK) and SRE practices.
• Experience supporting large-scale consumer or gaming platforms.
• Certifications: RHCA, RHOCP and Kubernetes certs (CKA, CKAD, CKS).
This is a hybrid remote/in-office role.
We want to connect you with job opportunities that align with your interests, skills, and expertise. When you create an EA Careers Account and are logged into the portal, you can click ''Get Recommendations'' to view a curated list of job openings. These recommendations are enhanced by automated processing, including artificial intelligence, and take into account your skills and experience. However, all employment decisions are made by our hiring teams, not by automated systems.
Pay Transparency - North America
COMPENSATION AND BENEFITS
The ranges listed below are what EA in good faith expects to pay applicants for this role in these locations at the time of this posting. If you reside in a different location, a recruiter will advise on the applicable range and benefits. Pay offered will be determined based on a number of relevant business and candidate factors (e.g. education, qualifications, certifications, experience, skills, geographic location, or business needs).
PAY RANGES
• Ontario *$138,700 - $188,700 CAD
Pay is just one part of the overall compensation at EA.
For Canada, we offer a package of benefits including vacation (3 weeks per year to start), 10 days per year of sick time, paid top-up to EI/QPIP benefits up to 100% of base salary when you welcome a new child (12 weeks for maternity, and 4 weeks for parental/adoption leave), extended health/dental/vision coverage, life insurance, disability insurance, retirement plan to regular full-time employees. Certain roles may also be eligible for bonus and equity.
This role is for an existing vacancy.
About Electronic Arts
We're proud to have an extensive portfolio of games and experiences, locations around the world, and opportunities across EA. We value adaptability, resilience, creativity, and curiosity. From leadership that brings out your potential, to creating space for learning and experimenting, we empower you to do great work and pursue opportunities for growth.
We adopt a holistic approach to our benefits programs, emphasizing physical, emotional, financial, career, and community wellness to support a balanced life. Our packages are tailored to meet local needs and may include healthcare coverage, mental well-being support, retirement savings, paid time off, family leaves, complimentary games, and more. We nurture environments where our teams can always bring their best to what they do.
Electronic Arts is an equal opportunity employer. All employment decisions are made without regard to race, color, national origin, ancestry, sex, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, age, genetic information, religion, disability, medical condition, pregnancy, marital status, family status, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. We will also consider employment qualified applicants with criminal records in accordance with applicable law. EA also makes workplace accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities as required by applicable law.
Note: Posting is subject to change so please refer to career site for latest availability (SBJ-G337).
Apply Now
Apply Now