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Studio Technical Director

Sumo Digital

United Kingdom, Leamington Spa - Lab42 Games·Full-time

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The role, as advertised by Sumo Digital

  • Expert knowledge of C++ and C#, and comprehensive experience working in Unreal, Unity and bespoke game engine solutions.
  • Proven commercial leadership experience in the gaming industry either as a Technical Director, or a Senior/Lead on a major published game title.
  • Proven ability to communicate engineering vision, status and risk at a senior level, in both internal and external client facing contexts.
  • Experience working on games for console, PC and mobile.
  • A consultative approach, working across the whole studio to influence and deliver a variety of projects.
  • Exceptional people leadership and communication skills, with proven experience managing Lead Programmers.
  • Comprehensive understanding of software development practices, including awareness of both client and server technology solutions and a forward view of emerging technologies and hardware.

    • This role at a glance

    This is one of 153 programming and engineering roles open in England today, out of 631 live games jobs across the UK, and Sumo Digital is hiring for 10 other roles alongside it. Going by the title it’s a director / head of role, a leadership post responsible for a team or function. Sumo Digital doesn’t publish the salary here; across the 7 programming and engineering roles on the board that do, the median is £70k.

    Discipline
    Engineering
    Level (from the title)
    Director / head of
    On gamesJobs since
    23 Oct 2026
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    About Sumo Digital

    Sumo Digital is a Sheffield-headquartered developer founded in 2003, and part of Sumo Group, which was acquired by Tencent in 2022. It operates several studios across the UK as well as overseas, and has worked on titles including Sackboy: A Big Adventure, Crackdown 3 and many co-development projects for major publishers.

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