Senior Digital Tech Lead

Job Title: Senior Digital 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

The lead role brings together the strategic leadership of a Senior IT Lead/Senior Architect with the hands-on technical responsibilities of a Senior Digital Tech Lead. This professional is responsible for end-to-end application design and delivery, as well as the maintenance, development, and implementation of Digital solutions with particular focus to our Mobile apps.

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 Single Page Applications and Mobile native technologies (IOS and Android)

Review and recommend partners, vendors, and emerging technologies. Lead technical relationship with Digital partners & vendors.

Lead various Digital projects, providing technical support and guidance.

Lead interface with various internal and external IT teams

Collaborate with team members and business partners to innovate and evolve functionality and design.

Design and build advanced applications based on UX designs, implementing user interface designs provided by the UX team.

2. Development and Delivery:

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

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

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

3. Technology Expertise:

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

Strong experience with Angular 16+ framework, CSS, SCSS, HTML5, and user interface frameworks.

Knowledge in hybrid mobile frameworks such as Capacitor/ionic, phonebooth.

Proficiency in user interface (UI) and user experience (UX) design principles ensures Expertise in Native mobile development, Angular UI frameworks like Material, PrimeNG, layout, Networking, Persistency, Performance, Concurrency, Offline Storage, and Security.

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:

Develop, maintain, and update system design documentation, including functional/technical documents, solution architecture documents, and data flow diagrams.

Demonstrate strong technical, analytical, interpersonal, and organizational skills.

Excellent written and verbal communication skills.

Has a desire to keep up-to date with the latest mobile trends and technologies

Required Qualifications

• Education and Experience Required:

  • Bachelor’s degree in engineering, Information Technology, Computer Science, or a related field.

  • 7+ years of experience as a Senior Solutions Architect.

  • 7+ years of experience designing, building, and integrating native mobile app solutions.

  • 10+ years of IT experience in web and mobile app design, development, testing, and support.

  • TOGAF or similar Enterprise Architecture certification (Should be a Plus)

  • Significant technical experience as a software developer, software development lead, technical lead, technical architect, or related role

  • Strong knowledge of designing architectural solutions.

  • Strong verbal and written communication skills.

  • Knowledge of application development lifecycle, API best practices, and DevOps

  • Possesses