Mobile Architect - Hybrid/Native Apps (12-17 yrs)

Roles & Responsibilities:

Drive & Develop Solution Architectures (Software/Application, Infrastructure & Data) across various domains, products, leveraging latest technology frameworks.

- Implement Architecture and design Principles around Scalability, Simplicity, Reliability, Availability, Security, Operational Excellence, Integration & Performance

- Inspire and guide engineers to design, implement, and document reusable patterns, libraries, and frameworks that allow us to effectively scale development.

- Own & oversee architecture reviews, approvals, and decision-making mechanisms to ensure that architecture decisions are consistent and aligned across the organization.

- Actively participate in the Architecture Governance & share best practices, approaches, and patterns with the wider tech community in the organization

- Oversee assigned programs (e.g., conduct code review) and provide guidance to team members. Assist with solving technical problems when they arise. Ensure the implementation of the agreed architecture and infrastructure.

- Lead successful partnerships between multiple technology teams throughout the application development lifecycle ensuring stakeholders are informed at all stages.

- Keep an eye on the growing cloud infrastructure costs and make provisions to bring it down without impacting the availability and scalability of the products.

- Participate in cross-functional portfolio & product planning sessions as an engineering visionary with a focus on the horizon. Own assigned areas/services/components of products as the technical guru.

- Apply and influence data-driven analysis and pragmatic decision-making aligned with business and technology needs. Follow up on immediate deliveries with long-term solutions.

- Partner in the build vs buys vs partner decisions, vendor selection, technology selection, cloud strategy, technology roadmaps, and business case rationalization.

- Instill a culture of constant learning and staying relevant with trends in technology across engineers and management.

- Influence architects, senior engineering, and product management to measure, track, and iterate continuous improvement of processes across engineering disciplines, impacting success across the agile delivery organization globally.

Requirements:

- Bachelor's or Master's degree in computer science or related discipline; or equivalent work experience

- 12+ years of experience with developing enterprise mobile applications.

- 5+ years of experience in REST services, SOA, micro-services-based architecture

- 5+ years of experience on Native/Hybrid Mobile apps for Android and iOS.

- 5+ years of experience on Couchbase Lite, SQLite.

- Hands on experience with native mobile development using tools like XCode, Android Studio etc.

- Extensive experience in unit testing, mocking frameworks, and automation frameworks.

- Extensive experience in designing architecture design for scalable applications.

- Extensive experience working in agile methodologies (Scrum, Kanban)

- Experience in working with APIs using protocols such as HTTP, GRPC and GraphQL.

- DevOps mindset - 6+ years' experience in a mature CI/CD SDLC environment, implemented exception handling, logging, monitoring, performance measurement, and operational metrics knowledge.

- Good understanding of data structures and algorithms, object-oriented programming, databases, SQL, web programming, design patterns, and SOLID principles

- Understanding the nature of asynchronous programming and its quirks and workarounds

- Understanding of authentication and authorization between multiple systems, servers, and environments

- Good analytical and problem-solving aptitude

- Strong communication, partnership, teamwork, and influencing skills are required. Ability to communicate with and present to engineers, senior management & relevant stakeholders.

- Led multiple teams in a global delivery, agile, CI/CD, metrics-based setting.

- 7+ Experience with programming languages like Swift, Kotlin and Java

- 5+ Experience with Flutter / React Native / Xamarin / Ionic

- UI Frameworks and Libraries like UIKit, SwiftUI, Jetpack Compose and Material Design

- Experience with server side languages like Node.js / Python /java / Ruby on Rails / PHP

- SQLite, Couchbase Lite, Firebase, MongoDB

- Junit/ Mockito - or similar framework

- XCTest - or similar framework

- Espresso, Appium, XCUITest, Selenium - or similar

- Notifications (APNS, Firebase, Azure Notification Hubs)

- Docker

- Auth0 - or any OIDC provider

- Kibana

- SQL Server

- Continuous Integration and Delivery via TeamCity and Octopus or similar

- Test Automation using a combination of Node.js, Protractor, Selenium and Selenium drivers, Appium and Browserstack.