Senior Digital Tech Lead

Job Title: Senior Mobile Tech Lead

Department:  Customer Service

Reports to: Manager - Application Development
Location: In Office,  Boston MA, Orange CT

The base salary range for this position is dependent upon experience and location, ranging from: $131,483.20 - $164,354

Job Summary 

This role combines the strategic leadership of a Senior IT Lead/Senior Architect with the hands-on technical ownership of a Senior Mobile Tech Lead. You will lead end-to-end architecture, development, and delivery for Avangrid’s native mobile applications on iOS (Swift) and Android (Kotlin)—guiding solution analysis, engineering execution, and operational excellence.

You bring deep expertise in either Kotlin or Swift and working knowledge of the other, enabling you to lead cross platform squads, set cohesive architecture, and ensure consistent quality across both ecosystems. 

 Key Responsibilities

 1. Strategic Leadership 

• Provide hands-on technical leadership for software engineers, focusing on technical architecture, design, development, and successful delivery. 

• Act as a liaison between the customer community and the software development team for effective communication and understanding of requirements. 

• Define high-level application platform architectural guidelines, making strategic choices and articulating trade-offs to business owners. 

• Displays outward thinking, develops strategies for the full software development life cycle of new and emerging technologies, and demonstrates the viability. 

• Technical mentoring to improve the analytical and technical skills of team members. 

• Technical Analysis and Implementation. 

• Remain up to date with coding best practices for scaling and Mobile native technologies (IOS and Android) 

• Define and evolve a modern mobile architecture (e.g., MVVM/Clean Architecture, dependency injection, modularization) that supports scalability, testability, and reuse across apps. 

• Mentor engineers; raise the bar on code reviews, design reviews, and technical decision making. Build healthy engineering practices and a strong learning culture. 

• Stay current on iOS and Android platform changes, frameworks (e.g., Swift UI, Combine; Jetpack Compose, Kotlin Coroutines/Flow), and app store policies. Advocate pragmatic adoption. 

2. Technical Analysis, Development & Delivery: 

• Own end-to-end delivery for iOS/Android epics: from solution design and API contracts through implementation, testing, performance tuning, and release. 

• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to define, design, and deliver products based on best practices. 

• Partner with Scrum Masters, Project Manager, Business Analysts & SMEs and Product Owners on Agile and Scrum principles and ways of working 

• Promote pragmatic Agile practices (definition of ready/done, acceptance criteria, story mapping, tech debt tracking, and iteration cadence). 

• Unit-test code for robustness, usability, and reliability. 

• Work on bug fixing and continuous improvement of applications based on metrics. 

• Collaborate closely with UX to design and build pixel perfect, accessible interfaces (ADA), and ensure consistent interaction patterns across platforms. 

• Own CI/CD pipelines for mobile (e.g., GitHub Actions, Azure DevOps, Jenkins), automated build/test, code signing, and artifact management. 

• Orchestrate TestFlight, Play Console, phased rollouts, feature gating (Firebase Remote Config/LaunchDarkly), and canary strategies. 

• Establish robust test strategy: unit, snapshot/UI tests (XCTest/XCUITest, Espresso/UI Automator), contract/API testing, and performance tests at scale. 

• Maintain a reliable release train, app versioning, and store compliance with Apple and Google review guidelines.

3. Technology Expertise: 

• Strong Experience with Native Mobile Apps programming for iOS development (Swift/objective-c) and Android development (java and Kotlin). 

• Advanced or expert-level experience with RxSwift and RxJava programming 

• Experience with Spring Boot Framework and other Microservices frameworks and orchestration platforms. 

• Strong experience and familiar with Google Play and Apple Store release processes. 

  4. Technical Documentation and Communication: 

• Produce and maintain technical documentation: solution architecture, data flows, deployment diagrams, and operational runbooks. 

• Demonstrate strong technical, analy