Mobile Tech Lead

AARP • Washington, DC

6d • Hybrid

About The Position

The Mobile Tech Lead works with cross-functional teams and customers to understand business requirements and translate them into technical specifications. The role identifies the underlying requirements behind feature requests and recommends alternative technical approaches. It partners with cross-functional technical teams to launch projects and provide ongoing technical support, and collaborates with management to streamline technology processes and develop procedures that support the business unit or department.

The role establishes technical roadmaps and oversees architecture and delivery throughout platform or capability lifecycles. It provides technical leadership for mobile engineering, supports secure and maintainable solutions, and contributes to continuous improvement of technology methods and services.

Requirements

• 7+ years of software engineering experience, including significant experience in native mobile application development.
• Deep expertise in native iOS or Android development and working knowledge of the other mobile platform.
• Strong proficiency in Swift/Objective-C or Java/Kotlin.
• Experience designing and building large-scale, complex, testable mobile applications.
• Experience leading mobile technical roadmaps, architectural reviews, and technology modernization initiatives.
• Strong understanding of mobile application security, authentication and authorization, secure data storage, performance, scalability, and maintainability.
• Experience developing mobile applications that integrate with cloud-based services and APIs.
• Regular and reliable job attendance.
• Effective verbal and written communication skills.
• Ability to exhibit respect and understanding of others to maintain professional relationships.
• Independent judgment in evaluating options and making sound decisions.

Nice To Haves

• Experience integrating mobile applications with AWS.

Responsibilities

• Establish a technical roadmap for platform and/or capability strategy and lifecycle, considering value-based outcomes, maintenance costs, supportability, and performance.
• Ensure sound integration, data, security, and business architecture design throughout all stages of the platform and/or capability lifecycle.
• Rapidly deliver and develop technical solutions aligned with business and/or platform outcomes.
• Troubleshoot and resolve technical issues related to platform or capability systems, solutions, and services.
• Apply knowledge of networking, identity access management, and information security tools.
• Drive continuous improvements to implementation methodology and technical service offerings based on customer and employee experiences or enterprise objectives.
• Participate in a Community of Interest for engineers across capability and platform teams to share information and strengthen understanding of business needs and technology-based solutions.
• Develop and maintain deep technical knowledge of domain-area systems, solutions, services, and applications.
• Work with cross-functional teams and customers to understand business requirements and translate them into technical specifications.
• Identify underlying requirements behind feature requests and recommend alternative technical approaches.
• Partner with technical teams to launch projects and provide ongoing technical support.
• Collaborate with management to streamline technology processes and develop procedures that support the business unit or department.
• Provide technical leadership and mentor mobile engineers through design reviews, code reviews, debugging, and engineering best practices.

Benefits

• 401(k)
• 100% company-funded pension plan
• Health, dental, and vision plans
• Life insurance
• Paid time off, including company and individual holidays, vacation, sick, caregiving, and parental leave
• Performance-based and peer-based recognition
• Tuition reimbursement

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Education Level: No Education Listed