Valtech - Head of Mobile Engineering
Requirements
• Experience leading mobile engineering teams, practices or capabilities. • Strong consulting and stakeholder management skills. • Ability to influence senior business and technology leaders. • Passion for coaching and developing talent. • Technical Expertise • Native mobile development (iOS and/or Android) • Cross-platform technologies such as Flutter or React Native • Mobile architecture and platform strategy • API-driven ecosystems • CI/CD and DevOps practices • Security, identity and authentication • Analytics and observability • Cloud-native platforms and backend integration • Experience delivering within consulting, agency or digital transformation environments. • Comfortable operating across strategy, architecture and delivery. • Experience leading client engagements and workshops. • Strong communication and presentation skills. • Commercial awareness and experience supporting growth initiatives. • Experience with AI-powered mobile experiences and agentic AI. • Knowledge of modern data and personalisation platforms. • Experience leading globally distributed teams. • Public speaking, thought leadership or contributions to the wider technology community. • Commitment to reaching all kinds of people • We design experiences that work for all kinds of people - and that starts with our own teams. At Valtech, we’re intentional about building an inclusive culture where everyone feels supported to grow, thrive and achieve their goals. No matter your background, you belong here. Explore our Diversity & Inclusion site to see how we’re creating a more equitable Valtech for all.
Responsibilities
• Client Delivery Leadership • Act as a trusted advisor to senior client stakeholders. • Provide senior oversight on complex deliveries. Have the awareness to step in early to protect outcomes, people and client relationships. • Be a bridge across disciplines to solve end-to-end problems and create coherent ways of working. • Track and report on the health of the practice. This might include capability coverage (aligned to demand), community engagement, delivery quality, and act on the signals. • Lead workshops and shape mobile transformation roadmaps. • Guide platform modernisation and architecture decisions. • Partner with Product, Design, Data and Engineering teams to deliver integrated solutions. • Influence strategic technology investments. • Capability Leadership • Define and evolve Valtech's mobile vision and strategy, and grow our mobile engineering capability. • Have accountability for line management in the practice and line managers will report to you. You will ensure standards and cadence for 1:1s and growth conversations, calibrate performance, manage succession, lead difficult conversations, and coach managers so the whole system gets better. • Coach new leaders. Give them real opportunities and feedback so they lead with consistency, confidence, and care. • Influence our career pathways and skills framework. You will make progression transparent and support through coaching, mentoring, and effective management. • Establish engineering standards and best practices. • Foster communities of practice and mentor engineers and architects. • Sponsor innovation with purpose from small practice experiments to thought leadership (talks, blogs, whitepapers) that help evolve our capability, win new work and influence our clients’ strategy. • Technical Leadership • Provide architectural oversight across complex mobile programmes. • Drive approaches across iOS, Android and cross-platform technologies. • Ensure solutions are scalable, secure and resilient. • Champion modern engineering practices including CI/CD, observability and automation. • Explore emerging technologies including AI-enabled experiences and intelligent assistants. • Commercial Impact & Growth • Partner with UK Growth teams on pitches and pre-sales work bringing an authentic and credible craft perspective to exec-level conversations backed by real-world experience. • Support UK strategic initiatives, ensuring the practice’s work aligns with wider business priority. • Contribute to proposals and solutioning efforts. • Identify growth opportunities to expand client engagements. • Represent Valtech externally through thought leadership and industry engagement. • Help strengthen Valtech's position as a leader in digital experience and mobile innovation.
Apply in one click
Upload My Resume
Drop here or click to browse · Tap to choose · PDF, DOCX, DOC, RTF, TXT