React Native Development Lead

Key deliverables:

• Deliver the in life and self-services journeys across the platforms (web and app)
• Lead the required configuration and customization required to serve the business and the development technical needs

Responsibilities:

•  To work closely with Product Owner, business/functional/technical stakeholders, agile delivery team, and other Product teams to craft, design and propose mobile solution, and agile delivery plan.
• To encourage and help drives innovation and adoption of new ideas and technologies within the team/program, in order to continuously value add to client, and also towards improving speed and quality of software delivery.
• Lead and manage the distributed team in delivering the user stories for the use and leave journeys according to plan, using agile delivery methodology
• Provide technical guidance and leadership.
• Coordinate dependent integration activities with other delivery teams
• Prepare and provide regular management reporting update
• Participate in technical solution discussion, and technical/best practices recommendation

Technical:

Required: Essential skills in order to be successful in the role

• Deep hands on experience on react JS and react native
• Good experience in the web and mobile development.
• Experience with agile delivery, DevOps and microservices
• Possesses a strong understanding of the digital ecosystem (e.g. self-service, self-care and e-commerce)
• Experienced in leading a sizable team of at least 10 (actual team size he/she is expected to lead in our project is >20)
• Experienced in previous/current role doing some solutioning and technical design for Mobile Apps
• Possesses strong leadership traits and is able to negotiate and influence business alignment with the IT technology strategy
• Solid business acumen and a structured analytical thinker
• Strong relationship management skills, high degree of cultural intelligence (CQ) and strong influencing techniques
• Strong analytical skills and Jira/Confluence expertise

Soft skills:

• High tolerance for ambiguity – Have the ability to operate with flexibility in an uncertain environment, with multiple demands and be able to assess and evaluate the range of options that should be considered
• Be your own customer– Customers are our lifeblood. Without happy customers, we’re doomed. So considering the customer perspective - collectively, not just a handful - comes first
• Be the change you seek– You should have the courage and resourcefulness to spark change – to make better our products, our people, our environment and our company
• Enduring Relationships– Work collaboratively to help us improve how we deliver what our stakeholders need, in a mindset characterized by co-creation and co-innovation
• Have Backbone; Disagree and Commit– Challenge decisions when you disagree, even when doing so is uncomfortable or exhausting. Have conviction and be tenacious. Do not compromise for the sake of social cohesion, once a decision is reached, commit to it fully

Qualifications – Required education, minimum work years experience or language requirements to be successful in the role

• BSc degree in computer science or any relevant program
• 12+ years overall knowledge in the digital domain
• 10 years’ experience with mobile development
• 3-5 years’ experience in react native
• Ability to lead the team and close the technical impediments
• Good knowledge in the API integration and graphQL
• Worked in agile design and delivery, CI/CD environment and experience in designing large-scale high performance and distributed web applications