Senior Technical Specialist Front End Mobile Chapter

Business Unit: Chief Operating Office
Career Direction: Digitising Our Future
Role Focus: Digital Innovation Peer Group: Management and senior specialists (A)
Salary range: £60,000 - £65,000 per annum

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Our Team
Our Front-End Mobile Chapter is responsible for the creation and maintenance of a wide range of Mobile applications & services, both customer-facing experiences and internal staff tooling. These cover the full range of customer types within the bank, including retail customers & business clients. Our systems are designed to be accessed via Mobile & Tablet, let's face it, it's never been more important to access your banking needs on the go, so come and join our team, and help to make the magic happen!

What you'll be doing
• Imparting your skills and knowledge to colleagues, stakeholders and team members to drive the mobile channel forward.
• Contributing to the Mobile strategy ensuring it aligns with the overall digital channel strategy.
• Sharing your knowledge and experiences of the latest mobile dev tools and technology to best fit the Business needs
• Assist in the delivery of technical improvement and training for the mobile team, advising and devising training plans as needed
• Ensuring developers are following best practises, along with producing clean secure code and conducting code reviews
• Facilitating innovation within the Mobile team to help develop a forward-thinking culture.
• Helping to improve, optimise & modernise our tech stack, leveraging your previous experience to avoid potential pitfalls & promote positive patterns!

We need you to have
• A significant and successful proven track record as a Senior Developer as well as supporting, training and mentoring junior team members
• A proven and successful track record in a Senior Developer role with SME experience programming commercial apps
• SME development experience of Apps using latest technology in your given field; iOS/Android/Flutter
• An in depth understanding of the latest tools within your specialist Platform ie. SwiftUI/Compose/Flutter
• Extensive platform knowledge of platform specific design patterns and how they differ between mobile platforms
• An in-depth understanding of the nuances and differences between different testing approaches. E.g. TDD, BDD and be familiar with automated testing
• In depth experience of communicating with Microservice REST APIs, and a deep understanding of Networking/HTTP protocols.
• Experience using version control tooling & repositories within larger scale operations, and design of a merging strategy e.g. git, GitHub, Bitbucket or Azure DevOps
• A good understanding of agile work tracking/ticketing software such as Jira, Azure Boards.
• Previous experience of identifying & mitigating against potential security vulnerabilities, within mobile software development.
• An understanding of the software product development lifecycle
• An in depth understanding of Architectural patterns for mobile, including cloud, and how to apply these

It's a bonus if you have but not essential
• Experience of utilising testing tools within mobile cloud platform
• Knowledge of Commercial scale cloud platform tools

Red Hot Rewards
• Generous holidays - 38.5 days annual leave (including bank holidays and prorated if Part–Time) plus the option to buy more
• Up to five extra paid well-being days per year
• 20 weeks paid, gender-neutral family leave (52 weeks in total) for expectant parents and those looking to adopt
• Market-leading pension
• Free private medical cover, income protection and life assurance
• Flexible benefits include Cycle to Work, wellness and health assessments, and critical illness
• Ability to work anywhere in the UK (where the role allows)

And there's no waiting around, you'll enjoy these benefits from day one.

Feeling insatiably curious about this role? Apply as soon as you can. If we're lucky to receive a lot of interest, we may close the advert early and would hate you to miss out.
We're all about helping you Live a Life More Virgin, so happy to talk flexible working with you.

Say hello to Virgin Money
We're making great strides towards achieving our ambition of becoming the UK's best digital bank. As a full-service digital bank with a heritage stretching back over 180 years, we`re a workforce to be reckoned with. We're putting the full power of our experience behind disruptive ideas that reinvent the role a bank plays in people's lives. We strive to create positive experiences for our millions of customers and our purpose, ‘Making You Happier About Money', underpins everything we do. We believe in doing banking differently, innovating and working together to make a real difference. Join us and Live a Life More Virgin that empowers you with choice and flexibility in how you work.

Be yourself at Virgin Money
Our purpose is to make people happier about money, this means seeing and feeling the world as our customers do by creating a workforce that reflects the rich diversity of our customers and communities. We're committed to creating an inclusive culture where colleagues feel safe and inspired to contribute, speak up and be heard.

As a Disability Confident Leader, we're committed to removing any obstacles to inclusion. If you need any reasonable adjustments or support making your application, contact our Talent Acquisition team

Now the legal bit
Living A Life More Virgin allows our colleagues to be based anywhere in the UK (if the role allows it), but we'll need you to confirm you have the right to work in the UK.

If you're successful in securing a role with us, there are some checks you need to complete before starting. These include credit and criminal record checks and three years' worth of satisfactory references. If the role is part of the Senior Manager Regime and Certification Regime, it requires enhanced pre-employment checks - we'll ask for six years of regulatory references, and once in the role, you'll be subject to periodic employment checks.