Sr. Mobile Architect, iOS & Android - Chicago - Hybrid

Company description

Publicis Sapient is a digital transformation partner helping established organizations get to their future, digitally enabled state, both in the way they work and the way they serve their customers. We help unlock value through a start-up mindset and modern methods, fusing strategy, consulting, and customer experience with agile engineering and problem-solving creativity. United by our core values and our purpose of helping people thrive in the brave pursuit of next, our 20,000+ people in 53 offices around the world combine experience across technology, data sciences, consulting, and customer obsession to accelerate our clients’ businesses through designing the products and services their customers truly value.

• At Publicis Sapient, we help organizations unlock value through digital business transformation—building products and platforms that matter to our clients and their customers.
• As a Senior Manager of Mobile Engineering, you will lead the architecture, delivery, and evolution of enterprise-scale mobile platforms across iOS and Android.
• You will operate at the intersection of engineering, product, and platform strategy—defining mobile architecture standards, influencing enterprise design decisions, and enabling teams to deliver high-quality mobile experiences at scale.
• This role requires strong technical leadership, cross-functional collaboration, and the ability to translate complex business problems into scalable mobile solutions aligned with long-term client impact.

• Lead and govern a scalable, multi-module mobile platform architecture (iOS and Android) enabling multiple cross-functional teams to deliver independently and in parallel
• Define and drive architectural patterns for intelligent mobile clients, including local orchestration engines, autonomous task execution, and seamless cloud interaction
• Direct the execution of high-precision, battery-optimized location-aware systems, including background tracking and geofencing capabilities
• Architect platform-native, on-demand delivery strategies integrated with OTA configuration to optimize binary size, improve release velocity, and decouple personalization from app store cycles
• Partner with enterprise architects to design secure, high-throughput integration layers (e.g., REST, GraphQL) across payment systems, loyalty platforms, and distributed backend services
• Establish and govern release management practices, including release trains, feature toggle lifecycle, kill-switch protocols, branching strategies, and environment promotion gates
• Embed security, dependency auditing, and secrets management into CI/CD pipelines while overseeing app store governance (phased releases, expedited reviews, version deprecation)
• Collaborate with leadership across Mobile Engineering, AI/Data Science, Product, UX/UI, and Security to translate business roadmaps into technical execution strategies
• Design and implement a token-driven UI architecture that integrates design primitives into platform-native code, enabling consistency and faster delivery across teams
• Leverage AI-assisted development tools (e.g., Git Hub Copilot, Claude) and agentic workflows to accelerate development and reduce repetitive tasks
• Partner with platform and data teams to ensure adoption of APM, error reporting, and analytics standards while enforcing performance and quality gates
• Champion the integration of on-device ML models and local inference capabilities to deliver low-latency, privacy-first user experiences
• Build and develop high-performing engineering teams through mentorship, coaching, and fostering a culture of continuous learning and collaboration

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