Mobile App Developer

Application Developer will be responsible for envisioning and developing new mobile applications and related digital products.
Execute product development activities across design, development, stakeholder communication, technology vendor management and delivery.
This role will support the Mobile Delivery Leader.
Responsibilities:
Envision and develop multi-platform (iOS and Android) mobile applications and Microsoft .NET web applications.

Assisting the Mobile Enterprise Architect with project and application architecture deliverables that are consistent with architecture principles, standards, methodologies, and best practices.
Assisting the Mobile Enterprise Architect with product and technology selection and determining technical approaches to ensure all architectural solutions result in a coherent systems design. Coordinate with development teams in the creation of class models, sequence diagrams, component models, etc., and detailed design specifications to ensuring that architecture standards are followed. 
Assessing research and development, prototyping, and approach evaluations.   
Providing knowledge of mobile application architecture to business and technology teams and facilitating the collaborative development following technology strategy, standards, roadmaps, and practices. 
Providing support to and advising the development teams during the analysis, development, and testing processes.  Working with business clients and product owners to review business drivers and strategies to anticipate future business / technology needs. Reviewing and advising the Mobile Enterprise Architect on 3rd party and integration solution architecture based on established enterprise application strategy.   
Communicating implications of architectural decisions, technology approaches, benefits, and implementation requirements to business and IT Leadership.  Defining and validating non-functional (technical) requirements and establishing traceability between requirements and application architecture/design. 
Providing input to the development of project initiation documents including objectives, scope, approach, estimates, and deliverables, when needed.  Working closely with Performance Engineering and our Web/Infrastructure Technology teams on defining the deployment architecture. Participating, and technically leading when needed, production troubleshooting and War Room  activities.   
Staying abreast of changes in technology landscape and providing guidance around *** Application Studios long-term goals related to mobile application development.  Encouraging a culture of execution, operational excellence, and accountability.  Seeking and capitalizing on the opportunities to improve productivity, time-to-market, solutions quality, and cost effectiveness.    Anticipating barriers to change and creating opportunities to remove them.  Promoting a culture that is based on knowledge sharing and learning from best practices.
Exhibiting high level of professional flexibility and volunteering innovation and new ideas.
Qualifications: Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Business Administration or equivalent educational or professional experience and/or qualifications. 
5+ years hands-on experience in Object-Oriented Design (OOD), Unified Modeling Language (UML), stateless distributed architectures, and designing for scalability and performance, especially within Xamarin, iOS, Android, .Net and WCF/Web API technologies or similar.
Clear understanding of event-driven and delegate-based design paradigms. 
Demonstrated experience with asynchronous programming, threading, and related design patterns and anti-patterns.
Knowledge of Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), its principles and patterns at an enterprise level.
Experience in data modeling techniques and knowledge and applicability of various normal forms.

Experience in and knowledge of multi-tier and cross-platform architectures driven towards mobility.
Experience with architecting mobile enterprise solutions based on REST web services.  Experience in developing of IT architecture plans and software development methodologies. 
Excellent communication, presentation, influencing, and reasoning skills to earn support of business leaders, technology leaders, colleagues, and vendor representatives.
Capable of building sustainable relationships with colleagues and key individuals.
Creativity and ability to think outside-the-box while defining sound and practical solutions.
Desire to take the initiative, moving projects/ideas forward with clarity. 
Adept negotiation skills in high-pressure situations.
Leadership skills to indirectly lead cross-functional teams towards common solutions.Experience with the following Technologies/Methodologies required:

Strong knowledge and understanding of iOS, Android, and any other platforms
 mobile development techniques. Working knowledge of web-based technologies: HTTP, AJAX, HTML5, JavaScript/jQuery and CSS3 a plus.   
Expert and demonstrated knowledge of the following platforms: Xamarin iOS, Xamarin Android, and Xamarin Forms.
Messaging architectures SOAP and REST with JSON text encoding.
Experience with the following Technologies/Methodologies preferred:
  Microsoft .Net, WCF, Web API, and complementary business layer and front-end technologies.
  Microsoft SQL Server and other most common backend Microsoft technologies.

Agile development environment, especially SCRUM using JIRA, TFS, or VSTS.
 Messaging architectures (EAI), Excel Services, BizTalk, SAP XI, XML, SOAP, and Web Services. GPS, location based services and other device hardware interactions.
Usage of automated build and/or unit testing and integration systems using Calabash. 

Experience with Microsoft and Apple frameworks, with extensive knowledge of technical design patterns and anti-patterns.
Experience with unstructured data, such as with MongoDB or Couchbase. 
Expert knowledge and experience using the following SDKs: iOS, Android, Windows Phone.
Cross platform mobile development using the Xamarin platform.