Localization Technical Solution Architect | Irvine, CA
Blizzard EntertainmentResponsibilities
- Communicate technical concepts, trade-offs, risks, and status to technical and non-technical stakeholders.
- Establish integration quality checks, governance practices, compliance standards, and data security and privacy controls.
- Evaluate and integrate NMT, LLM, and ML-assisted QA capabilities into localization workflows.
- Create requirements, architecture diagrams, implementation plans, technical documentation, and success criteria.
- Identify process gaps and automation opportunities that improve localization quality, speed, scalability, and efficiency.
- Drive integration initiatives from discovery through rollout, including workflow analysis, scope definition, milestone planning, dependency management, and cross-functional coordination.
- Partner with Localization, Engineering, Production, IT, and external vendors to gather requirements and define scalable implementation plans.
- Design and implement integrations across TMS, CAT, CMS, DAM, and ML-enabled platforms using APIs, connectors, and automated workflows.
Requirements
- 5+ years of experience in localization engineering, solutions architecture, technical program delivery, or a similar integration-focused role.
- Strong program management and communication skills, including experience managing milestones, dependencies, risks, and business-to-technical translation.
- Solid understanding of localization workflows, including content handoff, versioning, terminology and translation memory management, review cycles, and multilingual delivery pipelines.
- Familiarity with localization platforms such as MemoQ, Smartling, XTM, and Gridly, along with XLIFF, TMX, JSON, XML, and CSV formats.
- Working knowledge of databases, ETL or data transformation, OAuth 2.0, SSO, and observability practices for monitoring workflow health.
- Hands-on scripting or automation experience, preferably with Python, and familiarity with cloud environments such as Azure.
- Strong understanding of APIs, webhooks, data pipelines, and event-driven, batch, and real-time integration patterns.
- Experience delivering integrations across localization platforms, TMS, CAT, CMS, DAM, and external vendor environments.
- Multilingual capabilities and experience with localization service providers, large-scale live-service ecosystems, or multi-vendor content environments are preferred.
- Additional preferred experience includes Contentstack, AEM, Docker, Kubernetes, Postman, Swagger/OpenAPI, Azure Logic Apps, MuleSoft, Workato, Power Automate, and ML integration for localization workflows.
Benefits
- Hybrid work arrangement with some on-site and some work-from-home work in Irvine, California.
- Medical, dental, vision, health savings or reimbursement accounts, healthcare and dependent care spending accounts, life and AD&D insurance, and disability insurance.
- 401(k) with company match, tuition reimbursement, charitable donation matching, paid holidays and vacation, paid sick time, floating holidays, bereavement leave, and parental leave.
- Mental health and wellbeing programs, fitness programs, free and discounted games, and additional voluntary benefits.
- Relocation assistance may be available if the company requires geographic relocation for the role.
- Benefits are subject to eligibility requirements and may vary for part-time, temporary full-time employees, and interns.
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About Blizzard Entertainment
Blizzard Entertainment is a premier developer and publisher of entertainment software. After establishing the Blizzard Entertainment label in 1994, the company quickly became one of the most popular and well-respected makers of computer games. By focusing on creating well-designed, highly enjoyable entertainment experiences, Blizzard Entertainment has maintained an unparalleled reputation for quality since its inception. At Blizzard Entertainment, we pour our hearts and souls into everything we create. Best known for iconic video game universes including Warcraft, Overwatch, Diablo, and StarCraft, we’ve been creating genre-defining games for millions of players around the world for more than 30 years. We’re on a quest: Crafting Genre-Defining Games and Legendary Worlds for All to Share. Hard work, iteration and polish go into the Blizzard “secret recipe,” but the most important ingredients come from talented people who share our vision. If that sounds like you, join us. Blizzard Entertainment is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, national origin, protected veteran status, or any other basis protected by applicable law, and will not be discriminated against on the basis of disability.