{"id":157147,"url":"https://alion.io/job/sega-senior-technical-artist","title":"Senior Technical Artist","company":{"id":50480,"name":"SEGA","domain":"sega.com","url":"https://alion.io/company/sega","size_band":"1001-5000","is_staffing_agency":false,"is_intermediary":false,"listed_via":null,"ats_vendor":"Workday","truth_index":null},"role":"Games","role_family":"Games","seniority":"senior","employment_type":"full_time","work_mode":"hybrid","remote_scope":null,"remote_scope_basis":null,"remote_working_hours":null,"hiring_geo_confidence":"structured","locations":["London, United Kingdom"],"countries":["GB"],"hiring_countries":[],"hiring_countries_total":0,"salary":null,"salary_estimate":{"min_usd":65000,"max_usd":151000,"period":"year","method":"global_role_cell_scaled_by_country","sample_n":60},"experience_years_min":null,"visa_sponsorship":false,"relocation_package":false,"has_equity":false,"technologies":[{"name":"Fine-tuning","optional":false},{"name":"Outlook","optional":false},{"name":"Unity","optional":false}],"status":"live","first_seen_at":"2026-07-09T00:00:00Z","employer_posted_date":"2026-07-09","last_verified_at":"2026-09-24T03:46:39Z","board_verified":true,"closed_at":null,"days_open":77,"trust":{"level":"ok","repost_count":null,"flags":[],"days_open":77},"description":"Studio Overview\nWe are Sports Interactive\nThe studio behind: Football Manager.\nFounded in 1994, Sports Interactive became a wholly owned subsidiary of SEGA Europe in 2006. Based at the Here East technology hub in Stratford, East London, the SI team continues to expand as we bring our titles to an ever-growing audience across an increasing variety of platforms.\nTo support our growth, we welcome the opportunity to connect with passionate people with the drive to match our ambitions and initiative to realise your individual potential.\nJob Title: Senior Technical Artist\nTeam: Art & Animation\nReporting into: Lead Artist\nWorking Model: Hybrid 2-3 days per week in studio\nLocation: Here East, Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park, London, E15 2GW\nPosition Overview\nWe are looking for a Senior Technical Artist to join the Art & Animation team at Sports Interactive.\nThis role focuses on driving technical excellence across the Art & Animation department by improving workflows, developing scalable solutions, and supporting the creation of high-quality visuals and content pipelines.\nWe are looking for someone with broad Technical Art experience who enjoys solving complex problems, collaborating across disciplines, and helping teams work more efficiently while maintaining a high visual standard.\nThe ideal candidate will act as a bridge between Art and Engineering, helping shape workflows, improve pipelines, mentor others, and drive technical improvements that have impact across the wider project.\nKey Responsibilities\nA Senior Technical Artist is responsible for identifying and solving complex technical challenges across the Art & Animation team while improving production workflows, graphical quality, and overall development efficiency. They work within artistic and technical constraints to build scalable and maintainable solutions that support the project’s long-term goals.\nSenior Technical Artists work closely with Artists, Animators, Graphics Programmers, Engineers, Technical Directors, and Production to improve pipelines, optimize content, and support successful delivery across multiple disciplines.\nResponsibilities include:\nDriving improvements across content pipelines, workflows, tools, and technical processes.\n\nDeveloping and maintaining scalable technical solutions that improve efficiency and quality.\n\nSupporting shader development, rendering workflows, procedural systems, and runtime implementation.\n\nIdentifying performance bottlenecks and proposing practical optimization solutions.\n\nCollaborating with Graphics and Engineering teams to align artistic goals with technical constraints.\n\nSupporting the development of tools, automation, and pipeline improvements across A&A.\n\nProviding technical guidance and mentorship to Technical Artists and adjacent disciplines.\n\nSupporting sprint planning, retrospectives, and cross-discipline delivery discussions.\n\nHelping define and maintain Technical Art standards and best practices.\n\nClearly communicating technical concepts and workflows to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.\n\nKnowledge, Skills and Experience: Essential\nWe are looking for someone with strong Technical Art fundamentals and experience operating across multiple technical areas while helping drive quality, scalability, and collaboration across the team.\n\nHas advanced experience in more than one Technical Art areas such as shaders, rendering, procedural workflows, scripting, optimization, VFX, rigging, animation, tools, or content pipelines.\n\nHas Unity Experience.\n\nEnjoys solving technical problems and improving production workflows at both team and project scale.\n\nUnderstands how to balance visual quality, technical limitations, usability, and runtime performance.\n\nHas experience building maintainable and scalable workflows rather than one-off solutions.\n\nCommunicates clearly with both technical and non-technical disciplines.\n\nCollaborates effectively across Art, Animation, Graphics, Engineering, and Production teams.\n\nIs organized, self-driven, and capable of managing complex technical initiatives independently.\n\nDesireable\nCan identify opportunities for improvement and proactively drive change.\n\nIs comfortable mentoring others and helping raise technical standards across the team.\n\nContributes positively to team culture through collaboration, knowledge sharing, and constructive feedback.\n\nIs motivated to continuously learn, improve, and help shape the future direction of Technical Art within the project.\n\nBenefits of Working at Sports Interactive:\nPrivate Healthcare and Dental Plans.\n\nA range of Gym Membership options through our Benefits partners.\n\nTravel Insurance for yourself and your family.\n\nSubsidised mental health, therapy, and coaching sessions are available.\n\nAccess to our on-site physical and massage therapist services.\n\nFree access to games released under the SEGA Europe umbrella.\n\nContributory Pension Scheme (up to 7% of annual salary).\n\nRegular events in collaboration with our partnered football clubs.\n\nFree onsite evening bar in our London HQ.\n\nA well-stocked breakfast bar with cereals, fruits, teas, and coffees.\n\nMultiple clubs and societies to join e.g., book club and art workshops.\n\nYour club’s shirt personalised upon passing probation.\n\nTrophies & gift cards for length of service milestones.\n\nCupcakes delivered on your birthday.\n\nWhat is it like to work here?\nWe approach everything with passion, whether that is making our mark on the football industries or doing our bit for the world around us. We want to share that outlook with everyone who shows up to work here each day.\nFor us, talent wins games, but teamwork wins titles. All our roles require a level of Studio attendance to help us collaborate effectively and stay connected as a team. Collaboration is the key to constantly topping our best. Everyone's contribution counts, no matter which part of the business you are in. We encourage and support our people in driving your own growth and realising your full potential. But, more than anything else, we are a team. A team with a down-to-earth dynamic, that has a lot of fun doing what we do.\nAnd whether that’s technical tweaks or fine-tuning our creative process, everything is geared at producing the best game possible for our players. To do that, we need to be tenacious and ambitious and not be afraid of switching things up. It is these principles that have enabled us to produce a game that has defined year after year, and that will continue to push us for many more to come.\nWe’re also a London Living Wage employer and boast one of the lowest staff turnover rates in the industry.\nWe are proud to be an equal opportunities employer and encourage applications from any relevant candidate irrespective of sex, race, disability, age, sexual orientation, gender reassignment, marriage or civil partnership, pregnancy or maternity, religion, or belief.\nSI is proudly a Disability Confident Committed employer, and we are dedicated to ensuring our recruitment process is inclusive and accessible. Our studio has disabled access and facilities but please ensure you advise us if you require any other reasonable adjustments to be made to support you during the recruitment process.\nOur Values:\nKeep collaborating: Teamwork wins titles - Here, ideas belong to everyone, whatever department you’re part of. Collaboration lets us score more as a team than we could individually.\n\nBe flexible: We think fast and adapt faster. The football and entertainment worlds never stand still, so we keep progressing and switching things up to stay ahead.\n\nStay Tenacious: We don’t overlook the details. Everything we do is about producing the best game possible, in other words, never settle.\n\nShow Ambition: Let your drive lead the way - Your individual outlook can give everyone the edge. Make the studio’s purpose personal and let your drive lead the way.\n\nBring the Passion: Have fun doing your thing - Don’t be fooled, what we do is not a game. Making our players’ passion come to life is our passion.\n\nConsider the Bigger Picture: Keep things in perspective - We want our impact to be a positive one. 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