Senior Mobile Platform Engineer

About the team:
At Pfizer we make medicines and vaccines that change patients' lives with a global reach of over 780 million patients.

The Pfizer Digital Customer and Commercial Creation Center (C4) team creates technology solutions for our external customers. This includes all digital (web, mobile, messaging, etc) products, platforms, services and experiences for our multiple customer types.

The Newton Platform team sits in a part of C4 that focuses on platforms and enabling other teams. We are responsible for building automation and self-service tooling that facilitates efficient delivery of mobile apps. We’re composed of multiple self-directed and diverse teams which are distributed around the world.

As a team we understand that building the right solution can be difficult. Therefore, we organize ourselves around goals, and value shipping early and iterating to achieve them. We are not afraid to change direction if our goals are not being met. Our DevOps culture and way of working is fundamental to how we learn and support each other while delivering solutions to our internal users.

Role Summary:
We are seeking a senior mobile engineer to join our mobile platform team. This platform supports hundreds of existing iOS and Android apps and is core to Pfizer Digital’s ability to develop new apps and maintain those that exist at global scale. We work with teams building both natively developed apps and, increasingly, apps developed using hybrid technology (Ionic) or built as PWAs. There are a small number of Unity apps that we also support.

You will help lead the delivery of developer tooling and our library of integrations, SDKs, technology choices and other service elements that provide the fundamental tech stack, frameworks, bootstraps and developer processes at the core of our platform. These products and services help our mobile app development teams do their jobs quickly and efficiently, with instant feedback on the quality of their work.

We have named this DevX product “Jetpack” as it is designed to get teams off the ground (and to the app stores) in the shortest, most efficient, highest quality way.

We need you to harness your knowledge of internal customer facing platform products and the wider mobile landscape to help us as we enhance and support Jetpack and our wider mobile development platform.

Key Responsibilities:
A normal work week consists of a mix of meetings, planning, coding and coaching other engineers. We have multiple calls per week for the team to sync and we do our best to create focus time without meetings. On a regular basis you’ll also have personal 1-1 meetings with your Line Manager to support your own growth in the team.

You will oversee a mid-sized team of mobile engineers, CI/DevOps engineers and interact with scrum masters, technical writers and product owners. Your responsibilities will be to:
- Ensure the platform roadmap is developed in line with business objectives and wider needs.- Make technology decisions based on customer needs and with industry best practice, security, quality and scalability in mind at all times.- Constantly iterate and incrementally improve our platform products, processes and services, balancing demands from multiple stakeholder groups.- Understand new requirements and new technologies and oversee the problem solving and refinement/planning for what our teams need to implement- Work with our engineers to foster a high performing and caring culture based on DevOps metrics and feedback loops

How You Will Achieve It- Embrace a DevOps mentality and ensure the model's success, building a culture of shared responsibility and transparency leading to higher quality and quicker delivery of output.- Leverage industry best practice and experience to ensure that security is embedded into operating practices.- Understand our mobile platform and its place in our organisation. Lead the team to ensure they can decompose functional and technical requirements to tackle the complex challenges.- Support the practice of modern software engineering, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing and releasing.- Establish close partnerships with relevant Product and Operations colleagues to ensure alignment in all areas of development strategy, process, operational needs, DevOps culture and other areas relevant to excellence in the asset lifecycle of assets in the mobile space.

Qualifications and education requirements

We are looking for people with experience in the following areas:
Solution Architecture
- Level 5

Software Design
- Level 4/5

Programming / Software Development
- Level 5

Problem management
- level 5

Emerging Technology Monitoring
- Level 5

Requirements Management
- Level 4

Performance management
- level 5
- Excellent asynchronous collaboration and communication
- Experience of Native iOS development
- Experience of Hybrid (Preferably Ionic) development

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