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Introduction

As a Mobile Application Tech Lead in IBM, your expertise will help set the benchmark of leading mobile user experiences underpinned by mobile application engineering leadership across mobile web, cross compiling platforms and native app development.

Whether the work is for clients or IBM, your engineering excellence, team leadership, and client facing skills, including experience with Xamarin or Maui, will directly contribute to some of the world’s leading enterprise applications and systems. Your mobile applications tech leadership will be seen at the highest levels, and will enable critical processes, intelligent operations and innovative services to serve end users & stakeholders to industry leading standards.

In return, at IBM you will use the latest software development tools, techniques and approaches and work with leading minds from across the world, to build solutions you can be proud of. You will also have a limitless career path, supported with the latest training, education, IBM technology platforms and mentors.

Your role and responsibilities

We are looking for a highly capable Mobile Application Tech Lead to work for key clients in the Brisbane area. The candidate will need to be experienced working in squads in a medium to large enterprises, bring extensive engineering leadership to oversee code development of a variety of mobile applications including Xamarin or Maui development, plus also either mobile web or native application development, plus have extensive experience across the SDLC lifecycle. In additional to application development responsibilities, the Mobile Applications Tech Lead role will also be responsible for coaching team(s), leading squad discussions in the complex stakeholder environment (on application roadmap strategy, feature development approaches, DevOps best practices, Non-Functional Requirements best practices), and ensure the squad are working to timelines. The Mobile Application Tech Lead will ultimately be responsible for design, development and implementation of all application system changes in the enterprise, plus inputting to BAU teams where required. The coaching responsibilities will require coaching on development discipline, motivation, and a holistic vision towards mobile application software.

Depending on your experience, there may be a requirement to work in one of our IBM Consulting Client Innovation Centers (Delivery Centers), where we deliver deep technical and industry expertise to a wide range of public and private sector clients around the world. Our delivery centers offer our clients locally based skills and technical expertise to drive innovation and adoption of new technology.

Key roles and responsibilities include:

• Be a subject matter expert in Xamarin or Maui mobile application development, plus mobile web technologies or native mobile application - provide technical advice to solve complex problems
• Oversee technical activities of application development, including working with requirements or design teams, developing technical designs, performing and overseeing code development, and implementation of system changes
• Oversee a mobile application development squad or squads to ensure that planning, code development, pull requests, peer reviews, testing, reporting and documentation meets the highest standards - guide less experienced staff by reviewing their work and providing feedback to build team capability
• Work with multiple stakeholders and their respective needs to represent scope, schedule, development approaches and releases, so that the outcome supports a collective result
• Collaborate with others to provide additional technical direction and standards across the organisation, to support a culture of continuous improvement
• Collaborate with UI/UX designers to implement user-friendly designs
• Collaborate with other SMEs to identify and progress improvements or practices in application delivery, towards a culture of continuous improvement
• Ensure application performance, quality, and responsiveness
• Identify and resolve application bottlenecks and help resolve bugs
• Integrate mobile applications with back-end services via RESTful APIs
• Perform or oversee test, debug, update and improve software to ensure quality, security, and value
• Stay up to date with new technology trends in mobile application development
• Please note that you will be required to work on-site up to 3 days per week for this role

Required education

Bachelor's Degree

Preferred education

Bachelor's Degree

Required technical and professional expertise

• Must live in or near Brisbane and be able to work in the CBD a minimum of 3 days per week
• Minimum of 9+ years of experience in a lead mobile application development role, with either Javascript web or equivalent mobile frameworks experience OR 9 + years experience with Swift or Kotlin development and their predecessors
• At least 5 year’s experience building Xamarin or MAUI solutions, which could include Xamarin.Forms or Xamarin.Native
• Proficiency in building cross-platform applications for iOS and Android using Xamarin, with experience in mobile application lifecycle (concept, design, test, release and support)
• Clear evidence of tech leadership of squads and working with clients or customers

Preferred technical and professional experience

• At least Australian Baseline Security Clearance (or eligible for Baseline)
• Experience working with government agencies is a plus
• Experience with cloud message APIs and usage of push notifications.
• Knowledge of continuous integration and deployment (CI/CD) for mobile applications.
• Familiarity with code versioning tools, such as Git.
• Experience in working with agile methodologies.
• UI/UX Design Sensibility: Understanding of basic principles of user interface and user experience design
• Familiarity with .Net framework