Senior Mobile App System Architect

Responsibilities: The Mobile App System Architect partners with delivery team to architect, design, and build flexible, scalable, and resilient applications and services that can more easily adapt to current and future business needs. They will be the Subject Matter Expert driving the technical aspects of POCs, MVPs as well as the technical architecture for large scale rollouts of mobile (IOS and Android)

• Lead the business/functional architecture and strategy for solutions applying common frameworks and re-usable components
• Help ensure the operational platforms and associated interfacing data and systems have been properly architected from and end-to-end perspective to meet the functional and non-functional needs of the business
• Assist the estimation of dev and QA efforts ensuring proper understanding of implementation scope, as well as adherence to best practices and methodical delivery
• Work directly with Business Analysts to define and refine technical requirements for future work
• Ensure as-requested functionality gets translated into as-designed solutions within the context of timeline, resources, org structure and quality
• Take ownership of bringing conceptual design down to a level of detail that can be physically implemented.
• Ensuring all required details and documentations are in the right place on confluence.
• Develop and maintain current and future-state architecture models
• Stay abreast of industry best practices, technologies, architectures, trends, and emerging technologies
• Partner with delivery team to architect, design, and build flexible, scalable, and resilient applications and services that can more easily adapt to future business needs.
• Be a technical point person between the Mobile App and other internal IT teams to clarify and remove dependencies for Mobile App team.
• Conduct code reviews alongside QA and developers to ensure adherence to specs, design solutions with other architects for system integrations
• Participate in technology reviews and conduct as-built audit + documentation, and work with ops readiness teams to design system continuity and support.
• Advise Mobile Developers on best practices and Architecture usage
• Coordinate Mobile Application Release Processes

Requirements:

• Bachelor's degree in computer science/engineering or equivalent work experience
• 5 Years of mobile architecture & management Experience
• 10+ years of hands-on Application & development experience
• Strong experience building inhouse apps.
• Strong experience in front-end application framework design and performance tuning
• While proficiency in Cloud architecture is not required, the experience building architecture for Apps with a supporting Cloud architecture is.
• Deep knowledge of API (REST, SOAP), API Management and building scalable Web APIs.
• Experience in Mobile Platfom Application Programming Interfaces (API) such as Android/iOS, Swift, Objective-C, Java, Xcode, etc.
• Strong presentation and communication skills.
• Good command of written English and Chinese.
• Good command of spoken English, Cantonese and Mandarin.