Mobile Technology Consultant

Business Unit: Chief Operating Office
Salary Range: £68,000 – £85,000 per annum DOE + red-hot benefits
Location: Remote
Contract Type: permanent

Your next adventure starts here

Our Team
Our?Mobile?Chapter is responsible for the creation and maintenance of a wide range of mobile?applications & services, both?customer?facing experiences and internal staff tooling. These cover the full range of customer types within the bank, including retail customers & business clients. Our systems are designed to be accessed via?a number of?platforms: smartphone, tablet & desktop.?

What you’ll be doing…
• Using your?extensive in-depth knowledge in your field of expertise, gained over several years in?various?positions within mobile?teams
• An in depth understanding of the latest tools within your specialist platform e.g. native iOS or native Android
• Imparting?your skills?and?knowledge to colleagues, stakeholders, and team members to drive the mobile channel forward
• Contributing?to the Mobile strategy ensuring it aligns with the overall digital?channel’s?strategy.?
• Creating?&?controlling?best practice processes for mobile development, rolling them out?and embedding them?within the dev team?to?ensure high quality code
• Advising?on the latest mobile developer tools and technology to best fit the business needs??
• Overseeing?the?technical development?of the mobile team, advising and devising?training?plans as needed, and implementing schemes to assist the developers improve their contributions??
• Facilitating innovation?within the?mobile team?to help develop a?forward-thinking?culture
• Helping to?improve, optimise & modernise our tech stack, leveraging your previous experience to avoid potential pitfalls & promote positive patterns!??
• Undertaking?recruitment for the mobile team ensuring that the developers recruited are both technically proficient?and a good fit culturally for the team

We need you to have…
• A?significant and successful proven track record as a?Team Lead – leading teams of 5+?developing commercial apps??
• A proven and successful track record?in a?Senior Developer role with SME (Subject Matter Expert) experience programming?commercial apps
• SME development experience of?apps using latest?technology in your given field is helpful?
• An in depth understanding of the latest cross-platform tooling. e.g. Flutter, React Native
• Experience of?leading, supporting,?training,?and?mentoring mid-level and junior engineers?
• Extensive platform knowledge of?platform?specific?design patterns?and?how they differ?between mobile platforms??
• An in-depth understanding of?the nuances and differences between different testing?approaches.?e.g.?TDD BDD?and be familiar with automated testing?
• In depth experience of communicating with microservice REST APIs or GraphQL, and a deep understanding of networking/HTTP protocols
• Experience using version control tooling & repositories within larger scale operations,?and design of a merging strategy?e.g.?git, Azure DevOps, GitHub, Jenkins or Bitbucket
• A good understanding of agile work tracking/ticketing software e.g. Jira, Azure Boards

We’d love it if you had, but not essential….
• Modern client-side database technologies e.g. Realm
• Experience using testing tools?e.g. Browsertack, Firebase or AppCenter
• Knowledge of commercial scale cloud?platform?tools
• Experience with Microsoft Power Platform tools

Red Hot Rewards
• Generous holidays – 38.5 days annual leave (including bank holidays and prorated if Part–Time) plus the option to buy more
• Up to five extra paid well-being days per year
• 20 weeks paid, gender-neutral family leave (52 weeks in total) for expectant parents and those looking to adopt
• Market-leading pension and free private medical cover
• Flexible benefits include Cycle to Work, wellness and health assessments, and critical illness
• Ability to work anywhere in the UK (where the role allows)

And there’s no waiting around, you’ll enjoy these benefits from day one.

Feeling insatiably curious about this role? Apply as soon as you can. If we’re lucky to receive a lot of interest, we may close the advert early and would hate you to miss out.
We’re all about helping you Live a Life More Virgin, so happy to talk flexible working with you.

Say hello to Virgin Money
We’re making great strides towards achieving our ambition of becoming the UK’s best digital bank. As a full-service digital bank with a heritage stretching back over 180 years, we`re a workforce to be reckoned with. We’re putting the full power of our experience behind disruptive ideas that reinvent the role a bank plays in people’s lives. We strive to create positive experiences for our millions of customers and our purpose, ‘Making You Happier About Money’, underpins everything we do. We believe in doing banking differently, innovating and working together to make a real difference. Join us and Live a Life More Virgin that empowers you with choice and flexibility in how you work.

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Now the legal bit
Living A Life More Virgin allows our colleagues to be based anywhere in the UK (if the role allows it), but we’ll need you to confirm you have the right to work in the UK.

If you’re successful in securing a role with us, there are some checks you need to complete before starting. These include credit and criminal record checks and three years’ worth of satisfactory references. If the role is part of the Senior Manager Regime and Certification Regime, it requires enhanced pre-employment checks – we’ll ask for six years of regulatory references, and once in the role, you’ll be subject to periodic employment checks.