Mobile Tech Lead

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The Mobile Tech Lead works with cross-functional teams and customers to understand business requirements and translates into technical specifications. Discovers the true requirements underlying feature requests and recommends alternative technical approaches. Partners with cross-functional technical teams to launch projects and provide ongoing technical support. Collaborates with management to identify opportunities to streamline technology processes and develop new procedures that support the business unit/department.

• Establishes a technical roadmap for the platform and/or capability strategy and lifecycle that considers value-based outcomes, costs to maintain, supportability, and performance.
• Ensures sound integration, data, security, and business architecture design throughout all stages within the platform and/or capability lifecycle.
• Provides rapid delivery and development of technical solutions that align with business and/or platform desired outcomes. Troubleshoots and resolves technical issues related to platform or capability systems, solutions, and services.
• Knowledge of networking, identity access management, and information security tools.
• Innovates and drives continuous improvements of implementation methodology and technical service offerings based on customer/employee experiences or other enterprise objectives/outcomes.
• Participates in a Community of Interest for engineers across all capability and platform teams to share information and strengthen understanding of business needs and technology-based business solutions.
• Develops and maintains deep technical knowledge and expertise related to domain area systems, solutions, services, and applications.

• 7+ years of software engineering experience, with significant experience in native mobile application development.
• Deep expertise in iOS or Android native development, with working knowledge of the other mobile platform.
• Strong proficiency in Swift/Objective-C or Java/Kotlin, with 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, preferably AWS.
• Ability to provide technical leadership and mentor mobile engineers through design reviews, code reviews, debugging, and engineering best practices.

• Regular and reliable job attendance
• Effective verbal and written communication skills
• Exhibit respect and understanding of others to maintain professional relationships
• Independent judgement in evaluation options to make sound decisions
• In office/open office environment with the ability to work effectively surrounded by moderate noise

AARP will not sponsor an employment visa for this position.

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