Looking for a Lead Developer/Mobile Solutions expert - a structured creative individual who can govern the growing demand for mobile app development on a global level for a financial services firm. Strong hands-on technical skills are required as they are expected to build applications as well as liaise with agencies undertaking mobile development.

Responsibilities

• Advise the business and development teams on mobile best practices Development of mobile applications for iOS, Android, and/or Cross Platform.

• Responsible for establishing development frameworks, re-usable components across products and scaling a mobile practice.

• Work effectively with client-facing groups 

• Working with the UX Design team to manage and maintain the creative design; ‘look and feel’ of our mobile products.

• Demonstrate thought leadership and coaching to other team members.

• Articulate technical solutions to non-technical and business stakeholders 

Basic Qualifications

• Excellent software design principles and patterns, designing code for readability and re-usability, scalability, and maintainability

• Understanding of the entire application life cycle for iOS and/or Android – concept, design, build, deploy, test, release to app stores and ongoing support.

• At least one or more of Objective-C, Swift, Java, HTML5, CSS3 development skills.

• Demonstrated experience in either leading a mobile practice or as a lead developer working within a mobile practice.

• Ability to translate business requirements into functional specifications, delivering a tested functioning solution

• Demonstrable background in stakeholder and relationship-management in order to successfully manage a broad, diverse network of relationships, both internal and external.

• Strong understanding and experience applying Agile principles

• Good DevOps experience including continuous integration and automated deployment. Knowledge of certain tooling is a plus; such as Team Foundation Server, Git, Fastlane, Confluence.

• Experience working with global colleagues and stakeholders understanding cultural differences, time zones etc.

• Excellent command of the English language, both written and spoken