Mobile Technical Lead

Job Summary

Lead and mentor a cross-functional mobile engineering team delivering high-quality iOS and Android applications. Own the technical direction, architecture decisions, and engineering standards for mobile platforms.

Key Responsibilities

•    Define and drive mobile architecture, coding standards, and best practices across iOS (Swift/SwiftUI) and Android (Kotlin/Jetpack Compose)
•    Lead, coach, and grow a team of mobile engineers through code reviews, 1-on-1s, and technical guidance
•    Collaborate with Product Owners, designers, and backend engineers to deliver features end-to-end
•    Own non-functional requirements: performance, security, accessibility, and scalability
•    Drive technical roadmap planning, sprint ceremonies, and capacity management
•    Champion CI/CD pipelines, automated testing strategies, and release processes
•    Manage technical debt, identify risks, and propose mitigation strategies

Strategy
•    Define and own the mobile engineering technical roadmap aligned to business goals
•    Evaluate and recommend new technologies, frameworks, and architectural patterns
•    Drive platform modernisation initiatives 
•    Contribute to long-term product and engineering strategy with leadership

Business
•    Partner with Product Owners to translate business requirements into scalable technical solutions
•    Ensure mobile delivery timelines and quality meet business commitments (SayDo%)
•    Provide technical input into business cases, effort estimates, and feasibility assessments
•    Represent engineering perspective in stakeholder and executive discussions

Processes
•    Establish and enforce coding standards, PR review practices, and Definition of Done
•    Own and improve CI/CD pipelines, release management, and deployment processes
•    Drive adoption of automated testing strategies (unit, integration, E2E)
•    Lead sprint ceremonies: planning, retrospectives, and technical grooming

People & Talent
•    Lead, mentor, and grow a team of iOS and Android engineers
•    Conduct performance reviews, career development planning, and 1-on-1 coaching
•    Identify skill gaps and drive learning initiatives, training, and knowledge sharing
•    Foster a culture of accountability, collaboration, and engineering excellence

Risk Management
•    Identify and mitigate technical risks across mobile delivery and architecture
•    Ensure compliance with security standards (OWASP Mobile Top 10, SAST/DAST)
•    Own technical debt prioritisation and remediation planning
•    Manage incident response and root cause analysis for production issues

Governance
•    Ensure mobile engineering practices align with enterprise architecture and security policies
•    Oversee adherence to regulatory and compliance requirements (e.g. data privacy, accessibility)
•    Maintain audit-ready documentation for architecture decisions and release artefacts
•    Enforce branch protection, code review, and change management policies

Regulatory & Business Conduct
•    Display exemplary conduct and live by the Group’s Values and Code of Conduct. 
•    Take personal responsibility for embedding the highest standards of ethics, including regulatory and business conduct, across Standard Chartered Bank. This includes understanding and ensuring compliance with, in letter and spirit, all applicable laws, regulations, guidelines and the Group Code of Conduct.
•    Effectively and collaboratively identify, escalate, mitigate and resolve risk, conduct and compliance matters.

Skills and Experience

•    iOS Development (Swift / SwiftUI)
•    Android Development (Kotlin / Jetpack Compose)
•    Mobile Architecture (MVVM, Clean Architecture)
•    CI/CD & DevOps (Azure DevOps, Fastlane, Pipelines)
•    Automated Testing (Unit, Integration, E2E — XCTest, Espresso, Playwright)
•    Mobile Security (OWASP Mobile Top 10, SAST/DAST)
•    Agile / SAFe Delivery Practices

Required Skills & Experience:
•    14+ years of mobile development experience (iOS and/or Android)
•    3+ years in a tech lead or engineering lead capacity
•    Strong proficiency in Swift/SwiftUI and/or Kotlin/Jetpack Compose
•    Experience with MVVM, Clean Architecture, and dependency injection patterns
•    Hands-on with CI/CD tooling (Azure DevOps, Fastlane, or similar)
•    Demonstrated ability to mentor engineers and influence technical culture

Nice to Have:
•    Experience in regulated industries (banking, fintech)
•    Cross-platform awareness (React Native, Flutter)
•    Familiarity with security standards (OWASP Mobile Top 10)

Qualifications

•    Education: Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Information Technology, or a Related Field. Master's Degree is an Advantage.    
•    Languages: English — Fluent (Written and Spoken) Required.

About Standard Chartered

We're an international bank, nimble enough to act, big enough for impact. For more than 170 years, we've worked to make a positive difference for our clients, communities, and each other. We question the status quo, love a challenge and enjoy finding new opportunities to grow and do better than before. If you're looking for a career with purpose and you want to work for a bank making a difference, we want to hear from you. You can count on us to celebrate your unique talents and we can't wait to see the talents you can bring us.

Our purpose, to drive commerce and prosperity through our unique diversity, together with our brand promise, to be here for good are achieved by how we each live our valued behaviours. When you work with us, you'll see how we value difference and advocate inclusion.

Together we:

• Do the right thing and are assertive, challenge one another, and live with integrity, while putting the client at the heart of what we do
• Never settle, continuously striving to improve and innovate, keeping things simple and learning from doing well, and not so well
• Are better together, we can be ourselves, be inclusive, see more good in others, and work collectively to build for the long term

What we offer

In line with our Fair Pay Charter, we offer a competitive salary and benefits to support your mental, physical, financial and social wellbeing.

• Core bank funding for retirement savings, medical and life insurance, with flexible and voluntary benefits available in some locations.
• Time-off including annual leave, parental/maternity (20 weeks), sabbatical (12 months maximum) and volunteering leave (3 days), along with minimum global standards for annual and public holiday, which is combined to 30 days minimum.
• Flexible working options based around home and office locations, with flexible working patterns.
• Proactive wellbeing support through Unmind, a market-leading digital wellbeing platform, development courses for resilience and other human skills, global Employee Assistance Programme, sick leave, mental health first-aiders and all sorts of self-help toolkits
• A continuous learning culture to support your growth, with opportunities to reskill and upskill and access to physical, virtual and digital learning.
• Being part of an inclusive and values driven organisation, one that embraces and celebrates our unique diversity, across our teams, business functions and geographies - everyone feels respected and can realise their full potential.