Goodyear - Senior Mobile Architect - iOS/Android Platform

Description :

Mobile Architecture & Standards :

- Define platform-wide architecture patterns (MVVM/Clean, modularization, sync/conflict resolution).

- Establish standards for networking, caching, resiliency, security, and observability across iOS and Android.

- Align mobile architecture with AWS platform capabilities and API design; influence API contracts for efficiency and resilience.

Solution Design & Enablement :

- Ensure mobile solutions are test-automation friendly (stable IDs, hooks, deterministic state).

- Enable high-quality CI/CD for mobile (Fastlane/Bitrise, code signing, versioning, release trains).

- Drive performance, accessibility, and UX consistency in collaboration with Web and Product.

Security, Quality & Reliability :

- Champion OWASP MASVS and enterprise security controls (Keychain/Keystore, secure storage, cert pinning, OIDC/OAuth2).

- Define SLIs/SLOs for mobile (crash-free rate, cold start, frame rendering, ANR) and observability (Crashlytics, analytics).

- Ensure full support, high availability and business continuity for the business-critical existing landscape and mobile applications.

Technical Leadership & Mentoring :

- Provide architectural leadership to Senior iOS and Senior Android Engineers, and broader mobile team.

- Review designs/PRs, lead architecture reviews, and guide modernization/refactoring initiatives.

- Run POCs and technology evaluations; create reference apps/modules and documentation.

Required Skills & Experience :

- Deep hands-on expertise with Swift and Kotlin/Java; proven design of enterprise mobile architectures at scale.

- Strong knowledge of REST APIs, auth (OAuth2/OIDC), offline sync, performance tuning, and accessibility.

- Demonstrated experience with mobile CI/CD, code signing, release automation, and store distribution (TestFlight, Play Console).

- Familiar with QA automation approaches (XCUITest, Espresso), integration in pipelines, and quality gates.

- Strong stakeholder management, communication, and cross-team leadership.

Preferred Qualifications :

- SwiftUI and Jetpack Compose; modern state management (Combine/Flow).

- Feature flags, remote config, analytics, experimentation.

- Experience with secure coding reviews and threat modelling for mobile.

Education & Experience :

- Bachelors/masters in computer science, Engineering, Information Systems, or related field.

- 8+ years total experience with 4+ years in mobile engineering and architecture.