About the Role
Valtech is seeking a senior mobile leader to define and evolve its UK mobile capability. This role involves partnering with clients and multidisciplinary teams to deliver exceptional digital experiences at scale, combining technical leadership, consulting, capability development, and commercial impact.
Responsibilities
- Act as a trusted advisor to senior client stakeholders.
- Provide senior oversight on complex deliveries and step in early to protect outcomes, people, and client relationships.
- Serve as a bridge across disciplines to solve end-to-end problems and create coherent ways of working.
- Track and report on the health of the practice, including capability coverage, community engagement, and delivery quality.
- Lead workshops and shape mobile transformation roadmaps.
- Guide platform modernization and architecture decisions.
- Partner with Product, Design, Data, and Engineering teams to deliver integrated solutions.
- Influence strategic technology investments.
- Define and evolve Valtech's mobile vision and strategy, and grow its mobile engineering capability.
- Manage the mobile practice, including line management, performance calibration, succession planning, and coaching managers.
- Coach new leaders to ensure consistent, confident, and caring leadership.
- Influence career pathways and skills frameworks to support transparent progression.
- Establish engineering standards and best practices.
- Foster communities of practice and mentor engineers and architects.
- Sponsor innovation through practice experiments and thought leadership.
- Provide architectural oversight across complex mobile programs.
- Drive approaches across iOS, Android, and cross-platform technologies.
- Ensure solutions are scalable, secure, and resilient.
- Champion modern engineering practices including CI/CD, observability, and automation.
- Explore emerging technologies including AI-enabled experiences and intelligent assistants.
- Partner with UK Growth teams on pitches and pre-sales work.
- Support UK strategic initiatives, ensuring practice alignment with business priorities.
- Contribute to proposals and solutioning efforts.
- Identify growth opportunities to expand client engagements.
- Represent Valtech externally through thought leadership and industry engagement.
- Strengthen Valtech's position as a leader in digital experience and mobile innovation.
Requirements
- Experience leading mobile engineering teams, practices, or capabilities.
- Strong consulting and stakeholder management skills.
- Ability to influence senior business and technology leaders.
- Passion for coaching and developing talent.
- Experience across native mobile development (iOS and/or Android).
- Experience with cross-platform technologies such as Flutter or React Native.
- Experience with mobile architecture and platform strategy.
- Experience with API-driven ecosystems.
- Experience with CI/CD and DevOps practices.
- Experience with security, identity, and authentication.
- Experience with analytics and observability.
- Experience with cloud-native platforms and backend integration.
- Experience delivering within consulting, agency, or digital transformation environments.
- Comfortable operating across strategy, architecture, and delivery.
- Experience leading client engagements and workshops.
- Strong communication and presentation skills.
- Commercial awareness and experience supporting growth initiatives.
- Experience with AI-powered mobile experiences and agentic AI (Nice to have).
- Knowledge of modern data and personalization platforms (Nice to have).
- Experience leading globally distributed teams (Nice to have).
- Public speaking, thought leadership, or contributions to the wider technology community (Nice to have).
Skills
- Mobile Engineering
- Technical Leadership
- Consulting
- Capability Development
- Commercial Impact
- Client Strategy
- Platform Strategy
- Mobile Transformation
- Architecture
- Delivery
- Engineering Excellence
- Customer Experience
- Commercial Thinking
- Native Mobile Development (iOS/Android)
- Cross-platform Technologies (Flutter/React Native)
- API-driven Ecosystems
- CI/CD
- DevOps
- Security
- Identity and Authentication
- Analytics
- Observability
- Cloud-native Platforms
- Backend Integration
- Stakeholder Management
- Coaching
- Talent Development
- AI-enabled Experiences
- Intelligent Assistants
- Pre-sales
- Solutioning
- Thought Leadership
- Public Speaking
Location
- UK
Work Type
- Full-time
Experience Level
- Senior
- Leadership
About the Company
- Valtech is an experience innovation company and a trusted partner to the world's most recognized brands.
- We offer growth opportunities, a values-driven culture, international careers, and the chance to shape the future of experience.
- We provide an environment designed for continuous learning, meaningful impact, and professional growth.
Equal Opportunity
- We design experiences that work for all kinds of people - and that starts with our own teams.
- At Valtech, we’re intentional about building an inclusive culture where everyone feels supported to grow, thrive and achieve their goals.
- No matter your background, you belong here.
- Explore our Diversity & Inclusion site to see how we’re creating a more equitable Valtech for all.
