Principal Mobile (Android) Solutions Architect - INSPYR Solutions

Title: Principal Mobile (Android) Solutions Architect  (open to Sr Developer with architecture experience)
Location: Miami, FL (hybrid, less than 25% (5-10%). Sail with ship 3-5 times a year max)
Duration: Direct Hire
Work Requirements: US Citizen, GC Holders or Authorized to Work in the US
Sponsorship :  Yes
Relocation Assistant: Yes
Salary: $140k - $150k with bonus  (depending on overall experience)

Top must have Skills: Android development, IOS a plus. 

The Principal, Architect Mobile plays a pivotal role in ensuring the success of our digital products across both native iOS and Android platforms, along with hybrid technologies. In this capacity, your responsibilities extend to various critical aspects:

• Technical Leadership: You will provide expert technical leadership for the development of software, guiding the team in making sound architectural and technological decisions to deliver high-quality mobile solutions.
• Platform Expertise: Your expertise spans across both native iOS and Android platforms, as well as hybrid technologies, enabling you to make informed decisions that cater to the broad mobile landscape.
• Solution Planning and Design: You are responsible for the entire lifecycle of technical solutions, from initial planning and design to the implementation phase. This includes setting the technical direction for the mobile development projects.
• Mentorship and Skill Development: You will be a mentor and coach for your team, recognizing their individual strengths and weaknesses, and providing guidance and support to foster their professional growth. You encourage experimentation and innovation within the team.
• Business Collaboration: Collaborating closely with the business, you will work with all scrum teams to strike a balance between delivering valuable business features, ensuring compliance with industry standards, and maintaining excellence in engineering practices.
• Architectural Vision: You guide mobile technology decisions and are responsible for crafting future state architectures and roadmaps that align with and effectively support the overarching business strateg.
• Cross-Functional Collaboration: This role involves close collaboration with various stakeholders, including the management team, other Architects, senior leadership in Digital Marketing and Guest Technology business units, and Global Infrastructure and Security organizations. This collaboration ensures that mobile solutions align with the organization's goals and security standards.

As the Principal Engineer, Mobile, you are at the forefront of mobile technology innovation, ensuring the alignment of technical solutions with business objectives and promoting a culture of excellence within your team.

Essential Functions:

• Code – Lead by example and write high quality code and provide technical example and guidance to the rest of the scrum team. The primary contribution to the team is through code.
• Design – Synthesize Architectural solutions by leveraging accepted architectural patterns and practices to drive the creation of software designs. Create project level technical designs using the appropriate software stack, patterns, technologies and libraries.
• Collaborate and Clarify – Partner with the business, Business Analysts, Product Owners, and other stakeholders on decisions regarding prioritization, execution, work allocation, sprint planning, goal setting. Help to clarify the technical concerns of stakeholders including the business and the development team.
• Lead - Serve as a team leader with responsibilities that include coaching and mentoring developers. Develop a rapport with the developers and understand the strengths and weaknesses of each team member.
• Context - Have a comprehensive technical view of the applications owned by the team and how they fit into the broader context of the software system. Use this perspective to provide technical direction in terms of frameworks, practices, and code quality.
• Technical Growth - Keep current on new technologies as they pertain to their product. Stay on top of emerging technology trends and best practices. Evaluate and prototype potential technologies and overall solutions.
• Onboarding and Team Growth – Helps develop and maintain onboarding processes and assists in onboarding new hires.
• Ownership of Quality Outcome – Have a strong sense of software craftsmanship. Own the applications, work to ensure quality through use of tooling such as security analyzers, static code analysis, unit test threshold monitoring and others. Review code changes made by developers and provide feedback based on best practices.
• Compliance - Understand and comply with established corporate and IT technical standards and methodologies. These include compliance as it pertains to security, privacy, data and our ESGs. Use and contribute to company standards and tools.
• Problem Solving - Demonstrate exceptional analytical, problem solving and critical thinking skills. Come up to speed quickly in complex domains and effectively manage multiple concurrent activities.

Qualifications:

Education: bachelor's degree in computer science, architecture, Engineering, Information Technology required. Master's degree preferred.

Work Experience:

• 7+ years as Mobile Solutions Architect or commensurate amount of Architecture/Engineering experience required
• 8+ years Generally 8-10+ years of software development experience required.
• Minimum 3 years of experience leading cross functional teams, with ability to mentor existing resources technically required.
• 8+ years in a technical development capacity as individual contributor preferred.
• 2+ years leading a team of software engineers preferred.
• 3 years designing and delivering mobile applications for high traffic enterprise applications preferred.

Knowledge, Skills & Abilities:

• Strong .NET .NET Core and C#
• ASP.Net and ASP.Net MVC (either .NET or .NET Core)
• Expertise in iOS, Android, HTML5, CSS3, and other mobile frameworks/accelerators.
• Experience with mobile analytics and deployments of enterprise or consumer-facing mobile software systems using industry standard environments including iOS, Android
• Experience with Type Script, Swift/ Objective-C, java, HTML5/JS/CSS3
• Experienced in designing and developing mobile SDK and integrating mobile apps with web-services and external APIs
• Strong understanding of mobile security protocols, analytics and social channel integration
• Experience with one or more Mobile Development products or frameworks targeting multiple operating systems
• Working familiarity with design patterns
• Strong understanding of Object Orientated Programming
• Understanding of IOC/DI and experience with multiple frameworks is a plus
• Expert level experience with an Inversion Control/Dependency Injection. Strong experience with designing DB
• Solid knowledge of high availability architectures and disaster recovery architectures and processes.
• SQL/ORMs
• Packaging frameworks such as NPM, Yarn
• Experience with front-end framework/library such as Angular, Vue, React
• Container technologies, Docker and Kubernetes
• Async programming
• Sitecore or other CMS
• JAMStack
• Strong strategic capabilities with enterprise level foresight and mature judgment
• Solid IT implementation and solutions delivery experience
• Ability to drive innovation in a practical, actionable way
• Knowledge of design patterns, such as Model View Presenter (MVP) pattern
• Knowledge of debugging techniques
• Ability to listen to team members and communicate instructions effectively
• Strong interpersonal, facilitation and consensus building skills.
• A strong sense of code quality and craftsmanship

Company's Benefits

• Complementary stand-by cruises, employee discounts on confirmed cruises, plus special rates for family and friends
• Personal and professional learning and development resources including tuition reimbursement
• On-site preschool program, wellness center, and health clinic at our Miami campus
• Travel: Less than 25% with shipboard travel likely ship & shore based.

About INSPYR Solutions
Technology is our focus and quality is our commitment. As a national expert in delivering flexible technology and talent solutions, we strategically align industry and technical expertise with our clients' business objectives and cultural needs. Our solutions are tailored to each client and include a wide variety of professional services, project, and talent solutions. By always striving for excellence and focusing on the human aspect of our business, we work seamlessly with our talent and clients to match the right solutions to the right opportunities. Learn more about us at inspyrsolutions.com.

INSPYR Solutions provides Equal Employment Opportunities (EEO) to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, or genetics. In addition to federal law requirements, INSPYR Solutions complies with applicable state and local laws governing nondiscrimination in employment in every location in which the company has facilities