Sr Lead Technical Artist
The company is seeking an experienced and highly skilled Senior Lead Technical Artist to join its technical art team. This role is ideal for a technical expert who thrives at the intersection of art and technology and is passionate about delivering visually compelling and technically robust game experiences.
This individual will serve as a key subject matter expert for technical art implementation, drive improvements to pipelines and workflows, and partner closely with artists, designers, and engineers to ensure high-quality game delivery.
- Serve as the primary technical art expert for complex and business-critical implementation challenges across multiple game projects.
- Drive technical solutions that achieve high visual fidelity while balancing performance and platform constraints.
- Act as the technical authority for Unity-based asset implementation, integration, and optimization.
- Collaborate with engineers to resolve complex rendering, animation, UI, and performance-related challenges.
- Drive improvements to asset implementation pipelines, workflows, and automation solutions.
- Identify recurring production bottlenecks and develop scalable technical solutions.
- Design, develop, and maintain tools, scripts, and workflow enhancements that improve team productivity and quality.
- Establish and maintain technical standards for asset integration, optimization, and implementation.
- Troubleshoot and resolve complex visual and technical issues throughout development and testing.
- Partner with multiple game teams to promote best practices and consistent implementation standards.
- Mentor Technical Artists and Lead Technical Artists through technical guidance, code reviews, and knowledge-sharing initiatives.
- Contribute to documentation and continuous improvement of technical art processes.
- 8+ years of experience as a Technical Artist in game development or a related field (required).
- Expert-level proficiency in Adobe After Effects and Photoshop (required).
- Strong working knowledge of Unity, including asset integration, animation workflows, particle systems, prefabs, debugging, and optimization techniques (required).
- Experience implementing and troubleshooting complex visual features within Unity (required).
- Strong understanding of game content pipelines, asset optimization, and implementation workflows (required).
- Experience developing tools, scripts, or automation solutions using C#, Python, JavaScript, or similar technologies (required).
- Familiarity with shaders, materials, rendering pipelines, and real-time performance optimization (required).
- Experience with version control systems such as Perforce or GitHub and project management tools such as JIRA (required).
- Strong troubleshooting skills with the ability to diagnose and resolve complex production issues (required).
- Ability to mentor team members and provide technical guidance across projects (required).
- Excellent communication and collaboration skills (required).
- Experience in slot, casual, or mobile game development (preferred).
- Robust benefits package
- Global career opportunities
Aristocrat Leisure Limited is an Australian gaming and technology company and one of the world's largest providers of gambling products. Listed on the Australian Securities Exchange and headquartered in Sydney, it designs and manufactures electronic gaming machines and casino-management systems, and runs sizeable online real-money gaming (Aristocrat Interactive) and mobile games (Pixel United) businesses. Founded in 1953, the group employs more than 7,000 people across over 20 locations worldwide. It is the largest gaming-machine manufacturer in Australia and among the biggest slot-machine makers globally.