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Job Title: Senior Mobile Tech Lead

Department: Customer Service

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

The base salary range for this position is dependent upon experience and location, ranging from:

$128,320 - $160,400 (Orange, CT)

What We Offer:

• Competitive benefits and growth opportunities
• Generous performancebased bonuses
• 12% 401(k) match
• Comprehensive health, dental, and vision insurance
• Tuition reimbursement
• Professional development and clear careeradvancement pathways

For more information, please visit: Benefits - Avangrid

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, analytical, interpersonal, and organizational skills.

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.

• Communicate complex technical topics to nontechnical stakeholders. Provide clear options, tradeoffs, and recommendations.

Required Qualifications

Education and Experience Required:

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

• 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.

• 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 motivation to achieve results in a fast-paced environment.

Technical Competencies Required:

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

• iOS: Swift, Swift UI and/or UI Kit, Combine (or RxSwift), async/await, concurrency, Core Data/Realm, URL Session/Alamofire, Keychain, background tasks.

• Android: Kotlin, Jetpack (Compose, Navigation, Room, Hilt/Koin, Work Manager), Coroutines/Flow (or RxJava), OkHttp/Retrofit, Keystore, background work.

• Architecture: MVVM/Clean Architecture, modularization, DI, SOLID, separation of concerns, testability.

• CI/CD tools (Git, Jenkins, etc.) and source code management modules.

• Experience with Google analytics, RemoteConfig, etc.

• Experience with container frameworks such as Docker and Kubernetes.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience in the utility sector.

• Bilingual proficiency in English/Spanish.

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Please note that any applicant who is not a citizen of the country of the vacancy will be subject to compliance with the applicable immigration requirements to legally work in that country.

At Avangrid we provide fair and equal employment and advancement opportunities for all employees and candidates regardless of race, color, religion, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, disability, protected veteran status or any other status protected by federal, state, or local law.
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Avangrid employees may be assigned a system emergency role and in the event of a system emergency, may be required to work outside of their regular schedule/job duties. This is applicable to employees that will work in Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, and New York within Avangrid Network and Corporate functions. This does not include those that will work for Avangrid Power.

Avangrid employees may also be assigned a NERC Reliability Standards compliance role supporting Critical Infrastructure Protection (CIP) and/or Operations and Planning (O&P) responsibilities. This is applicable to employees that will work in electric transmission, operations, and cyber security business areas in Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, and New York within Avangrid Network and Corporate business areas. NERC Reliability Standards compliance roles and responsibilities may include additional access protections, training, audit engagement, and required evidence retention, and will be communicated by the employee's management.

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