Mobile Architect

You will be part of a purpose-driven team with a passion for innovation and an appreciation for Agile principles. To cultivate an environment where everyone can thrive, we foster an inclusive team culture where each individual has a voice and is empowered to take initiative, and where we care for one another. While we have been growing internationally, our colleagues across Europe and Asia remain connected through distributed project work and our “One Zuhlke” culture.

 As a privately held company run by engineers, we prioritise your continuous development and education. With life-long learning a priority, we invest 10% of our turnover in developing skills and services in an agile way – matching your needs and those of the company. 

Our promise to employees and clients emphasises quality, innovation and sustainability. Our ethical guidelines and our passion for impactful solutions influence client projects and industries we work with and underpin our focus on diversity and environmental sustainability.   

Your job will include:

• helping our clients understand what they really need, and building high quality systems to satisfy those needs.
• working collaboratively with colleagues and clients, be it onsite, in the Zuhlke office, or from home.
• Being responsible for providing support as well as architecture and project governance for in-flight project delivery teams from discovery, through delivery, and during end of project and client transition. 
• working closely with the UK Head of Architecture to use your broad range of skills and breadth of experience in guiding and mentoring colleagues in projects , contributing to group-wide initiatives, strengthening the architect community and continuously improving our architecture and engineering practices. 
• keeping yourself technically sharp and getting things done.
• occasionally travelling to other Zuhlke locations, e.g. in mainland Europe, for project work or for developing competencies across the Zuhlke group.

Skills & Requirements:

• We are looking for a Mobile Architect with a strong technical background and an in-depth knowledge of the iOS and/or the Android ecosystem.
• You have successfully delivered a wide-range of complex and secure mobile applications across more than one industry sectors, such as Finance, Government, Health Care, Energy and Utilities, always understanding the unique constraints and risk-landscape within a client organisation and sector. 
• You are able to work at different levels of abstraction. 
• You have proven your excellent leadership, communication and client facing skills in various projects working confidently and collaboratively with stakeholders across technical, business and management levels
• You have experience with a number of architectural frameworks, and techniques, and are flexible in applying the right approach appropriate to the situation and the client and project needs using a risk-led approach to architecture.
• You are knowledgeable in information security, from understanding threats, risk and impact assessments, data privacy, and the compliance and regulatory requirements and constraints as they will impact the definition of both the problem domain and the solution architecture appropriate to meet those challenges.
• Expertise in backend technologies and cloud computing is beneficial.

Our technical choices are mainly driven by our clients' needs. We aim to keep current with technical, fit-for-purpose trends and make balanced engineering decisions based on the most effective tooling and their environments.

In the current circumstances we work predominantly remotely and with flexible working hours and we expect that this will continue to be the case in the future. This may occasionally change due to project specific needs.

And Why Zühlke?

✅ Culture of collaboration and teamwork
✅ Variety of impactful and challenging projects
✅ Professional training and development benefits
✅ Strong ethics with a focus on sustainability & inclusion
✅ Sensible work-life balance
✅ Freedom to take over responsibility

Would you like to find out more? Read our Success Stories and join the conversation on our Zühlke Blog.

If you're interested in joining us, send us your CV and start your first step into realising your career goals at a company that values talent and cares about its employees.  We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. 
 

Diversity & Inclusion at Zuhlke  

• Being welcome & respected for who you are. 
• Being heard & appreciated for your perspective.
• Being valued, no matter your background.  

 
We welcome people from all backgrounds, regardless of their gender, personality, national origin, race, religion, colour, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, marital status, disability or veteran status.

Covid-19 Notice: We are hiring for this role despite the current circumstances in relation to Covid-19. To protect our employees’ and candidates’ health and safety, we have implemented fully remote interview and onboarding processes for candidates and new joiners until further notice. We are closely monitoring the evolving situation and appreciate your flexibility with any related changes to our interviewing process.