Senior Digital Tech Lead

Job Summary

This role blends strategic technical leadership with hands-on mobile engineering expertise to lead the architecture development and delivery of native mobile applications across iOS and Android platforms. The position owns end-to-end solution design engineering execution and operational excellence while guiding cross-platform teams and establishing modern mobile architecture standards.

The ideal candidate brings deep expertise in either Swift or Kotlin with strong working knowledge of both ecosystems enabling consistent scalable and high-quality mobile solutions.

Key Responsibilities

Strategic Technical Leadership

• Provide hands-on technical leadership across mobile engineering teams driving architecture design development and delivery excellence

• Serve as a bridge between business stakeholders and engineering teams to translate requirements into scalable solutions

• Define mobile platform architecture standards and guide technology trade-offs

• Lead adoption of modern mobile development practices and emerging technologies

• Mentor engineers through design reviews code reviews and technical decision-making

• Establish scalable mobile architecture frameworks supporting reuse testing and performance

Mobile Architecture & Engineering Excellence

• Define and evolve mobile architecture patterns including MVVM Clean Architecture dependency injection and modularization

• Maintain platform expertise across iOS and Android frameworks and tooling

• Ensure high-quality coding standards and engineering best practices

• Drive consistency across cross-platform solutions and development processes

Delivery DevOps & Quality

• Own end-to-end delivery from solution design through release and optimization

• Collaborate with cross-functional Agile teams to execute high-quality features

• Establish and maintain mobile CI/CD pipelines for automated testing builds and deployments

• Manage app store releases phased rollouts feature flags and compliance

• Implement robust testing strategies including unit UI performance and integration testing

• Lead continuous improvement through metrics-driven development

Technical Collaboration & Documentation

• Produce and maintain architecture diagrams data flows and operational documentation

• Communicate complex technical concepts clearly to business and leadership stakeholders

• Provide technical guidance recommendations and trade-off analysis

Required Qualifications

• Bachelors degree in Computer Science Engineering Information Technology or related field

• 7 years of experience building native mobile applications

• 10 years of overall IT or software development experience

• Proven experience as a technical lead architect or senior engineer

• Strong knowledge of mobile architecture APIs and DevOps practices

• Excellent communication and leadership skills

Technical Competencies

iOS:
Swift SwiftUI/UIKit Combine or RxSwift async/await Core Data/Realm networking frameworks secure storage

Android:
Kotlin Jetpack Compose Room Hilt/Koin Coroutines/Flow or RxJava networking frameworks background processing

Architecture & DevOps:
MVVM Clean Architecture modularization dependency injection CI/CD pipelines Git-based workflows

Additional Technologies:
Analytics tools feature flag platforms containerization (Docker/Kubernetes) API integration

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience in regulated or infrastructure-heavy industries

• Multilingual communication skills