This role will involve working with working with external App developers, taking over the support, maintenance and enhancement of the Apps developed by external developers
Purpose of Job: To design, develop and manage Mobile Apps
Key activities:
- Acting as the hands on Manager responsible for iOS and Android development, working closely with external developers/agencies
- Optimise the App for performance and ensure code reusability across multiple platform
- Develop Native and Hybrid Apps using Xamarin, HTML5, CSS, WebAPIs and other web technologies
- Working closely with rest of the Digital technical and Digital marketing team
- Work with Project managers in a scrum team
- Understand and support across the entire app life cycle –concept, design, build, deploy, test, crowd test, release to app stores and support
- Keep up to date on the latest industry trends in the mobile technologies and IoT
- Co-ordinate with API developers to deliver secure and performant Apps
- Define and adhere to agreed Apps standards
Required experience:
- A proven track record in delivering complex cross platform mobile Apps
- Published examples of mobile applications on the App store or the Android market
- Experience of REST and SOAP Web Services
- Involvement across the full project life cycle (to successful deployment)
- Experience with agile project delivery including TDD and CI
Desirable attributes: Ideally candidates would have:
- Experience in Xamarin is desirable but not mandatory
- Worked in a Scrum team
- Experience of delivering enterprise Apps
- Industry experience in travel & hospitality, insurance and/or membership organisations
- Understands and implemented OAuth
- Self-starter that demonstrates initiative and ability to work independently with little supervision