Senior Mobile Solution Lead; iOS and Android
London, Greater London, W1B, England, UK
Listed on 2026-08-29
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Software Development
Android Developer, Software Architect
About the Job you are considering:
We are seeking a highly skilled and experienced Senior Mobile Solution Lead (iOS and Android) to join our Experience Design & Engineering Capability Unit. In this role, you will lead the development of innovative mobile applications, ensuring high performance, scalability, and maintainability. You will work with leading organisations across financial services industry to design, build, and deliver cutting‑edge mobile applications that transform customer experiences.
You’ll bring expertise in native mobile development (Swift, Kotlin/Java) as well as cross‑platform frameworks where relevant (Flutter, React Native), and collaborate with architects, UX designers, and product teams to deliver secure, scalable, and high‑performing mobile solutions for enterprise clients. You will act as a trusted advisor and technology leader, responsible for designing and delivering digital solutions for clients across banking, insurance, wealth, and capital markets.
This role requires Mobile solutioning and Engineering skills with deep FSI industry knowledge and hands‑on experience in designing complex enterprise and customer‑facing solutions—leveraging cloud platforms, APIs, microservices, data, and emerging GenAI & Agentic AI technologies. You’ll also play a leading role in pre‑sales initiatives, architecture governance, and end‑to‑end solution delivery within the practice and with clients.
The places that you work from day to day will vary according to your role, your needs, and those of the business; it will be a blend of Company offices, client sites, and your home; noting that you will be unable to work at home 100% of the time.
Your Role:Key Responsibilities Client engagement and co‑creation
- Partner with client stakeholders to understand business ambition, customer journeys, operating constraints and measurable outcomes.
- Plan and facilitate discovery, ideation and architecture workshops that turn ambiguous challenges into a shared solution vision and actionable roadmap.
- Act as a trusted adviser to client technology, product and business leaders, constructively challenging assumptions and creating alignment across stakeholders.
- Create and deliver concise, compelling architecture narratives, executive presentations and solution demonstrations for CXO and senior governance forums.
- Explain complex technical choices in business language, including benefits, risks, dependencies, cost drivers and delivery implications.
- Lead the design, solution definition and delivery of mobile solutions (iOS and Android) for enterprise clients.
- Own end-to-end architecture for enterprise iOS and Android solutions across native and cross‑platform approaches.
- Define solution context, target architecture, integration patterns, data flows, non‑functional requirements and transition roadmaps.
- Evaluate and recommend technology choices across Swift and SwiftUI, Kotlin and Jetpack Compose, React Native, Flutter and Kotlin Multiplatform where appropriate.
- Design secure integration with APIs, microservices, identity platforms, mobile backends, cloud services and enterprise systems.
- Apply appropriate architectural patterns, including Clean Architecture, modularisation, MVVM and platform‑specific patterns, to support maintainability and scale.
- Architect for resilience, performance, observability, accessibility, privacy, offline capability and secure mobile lifecycle management.
- Ensure alignment with enterprise architecture standards, regulatory expectations and App Store / Google Play requirements.
- Provide architecture leadership from mobilisation through build, test, release and production operation.
- Run design reviews, manage architecture decisions and technical risks, and ensure traceability from requirements to implementation.
- Guide engineering teams on mobile standards, Dev Sec Ops , automated testing, CI/CD, telemetry and release management.
- Mentor architects and senior engineers while contributing to mobile capability development, thought leadership and community growth.
- Lead mobile solution shaping for…
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